Night Owl Cards

  Have you seen the latest installment of the 1975 Topps worst-to-best countdown? My goodness, five episodes in and I guess everyone's bored to death of it. Probably an overreaction on my part, but after averaging 280 views on this series it was suddenly down to 135 yesterday! I know it's just a bunch of head shots, but check it out if you haven't.   OK, sorry, blogger's lament there. Moving on.   One of the craziest transformations in cards over a period of time has got to be the evolution of the Pacific brand. A lot of what I hear about Pacific is related to cards that look like the one above, stuff that came out in the second half of the 1990s.   Or stuff like this:   I can handle that kind of Pacific in small doses. Not many of their primary sets do much for me. Too much pointless bling. But I'll enjoy a crazy insert or parallel or two.   Something that's more my speed is earlier Pacific, when it was known as Pacific Legends.   I received all of t...

A couple of weeks ago, I completed a task that has been going on for longer than I've run this blog. I've always wanted to know how many cards I own, but since I delayed counting them by like 30 years, it took a few more years -- and years and years -- to catch up, and then to add all of the incoming cards. And add the fact that I was doing all this on an obsolete Microsoft spreadsheet and it's been a painstaking process that requires large breaks to preserve my sanity. But I stuck with it and finally completed the "A to Z" portion of my collection with the final tally for Ivan Zweig (one card). Totaling everything up, the program spat out: 81,385. Now, I know that's not right. How far it's off, I have no idea. But I catch mistakes in my cataloging all the time and just think of all the mistakes I don't catch. It's also not the complete total. Because I haven't totaled any of the league leader cards, or postseason cards, or SuperStar...