Night Owl Cards

This card here is evidence of what can be achieved when you place a bizarrely named want list up on the sidebar of your blog. The Nebulous 9 has been a great success so far. In just a few short weeks since starting it, I have received seven cards off the list. In true "nebulous 9" fashion, some of the cards weren't on the list, but they were cards that I mentioned I wanted in the original post . As cards have come in, I've updated the list, and as I originally suspected the list hasn't been nine cards all the time. Sometimes it was 7 or 8 or even 10. But it's back to 9 now. The Paul Runge card came from gcrl , who sent me a couple of other cards from that list. He's got a few double-play turn cards lying around. This is an upgrade over my tattered Runge card that was a misfit in my 1986 Topps binder. Now, my Runge can play nicely with the other kids. The 2009 Allen & Ginter Russell Martin card came from Joe L. I am in the middle of documenting hi...

I have seen this done with great success here and here and here , and probably in a few other places, too. So I'm going to try one of my own. I had reservations about starting my own version of the Magnificent Seven or Dirty Dozen -- a want list of my absolute most wanted cards. It's a hectic time of year, which puts a damper on my ability to make trades. Also, I'm hesitant to add another want list to my sidebar. If it seems that all I'm doing on this blog is opening the guitar case, playing tunes on the street and begging for cards, please tell me. But here I go anyway, putting out my tin cup. I call this want list: the Nebulous 9. These are nine cards that I really, really, want. But I call it a "nebulous" list, because my view of which cards I really, really want (I'll have you humming that Spice Girls song in no time) changes constantly. I had to force myself to think about which cards should be on this list, and it was agonizingly painful to l...