Night Owl Cards

I know it seems like I've settled on a schedule of posting every other day. But that's just March forcing me into that pattern. It's nothing planned. But you'll probably have to put up with it for at least a couple more weeks.   I'm finally getting to the other big send of cards I received over the last couple of months. This showed up from reader Bill K. about two weeks ago and I've been combing through it ever since. Here is an idea of what I pulled out of the box:   Those are four thousand-count boxes and they were all pretty much jammed full. The vast majority of it was Dodgers with a few "guys who used to be Dodgers" and an early '90s Buffalo Bills set added.   Bill said he's been cleaning out/pairing down his inventory, which if the boxes are indication was filled with cards from the early-to-mid 1980s to today. As you might have guessed, I had a lot of these cards already. I mean A LOT. Perhaps you've heard I collect Dodgers.   So mu...

Of all the many series that I have on this blog, there have been few that have connected like the Legends of Cardboard series. I still don't know why that is. The topic is interesting to me, but that doesn't mean anything. There are plenty of posts on here that are interesting to me that were probably read by two people. So it must be something more, whatever that is. All I know is that the Legends of Cardboard posts receive an extraordinary number of clicks. And when a new one is posted, that causes previous Legends of Cardboard posts to increase their readership. It's like the old days when a group would put out a new record album. That would generate new interest for its older albums. A new indication of the impact of Legend of Cardboard is that it has landed me some cards. I wasn't expecting any new cards of recent Legend of Cardboard subject Alex Cole, but Bo from Baseball Cards Come To Life was there for me with a nice selection of Goggles ... I mean, ...

The Dodgers have been very busy this offseason, adding just about anyone that will fit into their budget, which is to say they haven't added a single player who I think can help them win a World Series. In fact, it would be more inspiring seeing Bo Derek out there in the outfield, riding her horse after fly balls, than Jay Gibbons, Tony Gwynn Jr., Marcus Thames or Gabe Kapeler. Inspiring in a different kind of way, perhaps. But this isn't a post about Derek or Dudley Moore or the movie I really, really, really wanted to see when I was 14 years old. This is only a post about the number 10. There are a lot of new additions to the team and I'm curious to know which Dodger will land the coveted uniform number 10. It has always been my favorite uniform number, not because of Derek's cinematic breakout but because of a player who worked for the Dodgers from the early 1970s to early 1980s. Before and since that time, the No. 10 has been worn by Dodgers low and high....