Night Owl Cards

First, because people might have missed it because I haven't been in the habit of posting on this blog overnight lately, I am hoarding Steve Garvey cards . I apparently have a thing about fallen heroes. I look at my first year of blogging with the same nostalgic haze usually reserved for bad '70s music and '80s neon. It was a fascinating time full of new cards, new collecting partners and newly discovered blogs. Not only was I finding already established blogs, but new ones seemed to appear every week. The blogging giddiness has disappeared over the years for me and, it appears, for others. Lots of blogs established during 2008 and 2009 aren't around anymore, or are stuck on some distant date in the past, frozen in time. Every once in awhile, though, a blog reappears and I love it when that happens. A few weeks ago, I received an email from someone who was blogging during that first year I was, who had returned to blogging. The blog -- Project Phillies -- ha...

Beauty, eh? What is the point of putting any other team on blue refractors? The Dodgers go perfectly with these cards. I suppose you could make a case for the Mets or the Cubs. But there is no "Met blue" or "Cub blue." There is "Dodger blue." I think I might petition Topps to reserve the blue refractors for just the Dodgers. The other teams can have something else. Dig out the 1990 Donruss design for the Reds. The White Sox can take 2007 Topps . This is just my second Topps Chrome blue refractor Dodger. But at least Derek Lowe has company now. The card came from Amy of Project Phillies . I'll give you one guess as to what team she collects. That's right, she collects Diamondbacks. ... OK, I'm kidding. She's a Mariners fan. Anyway, I was pleased to send a bunch of Phillies her way for some key Dodgers, and one stray Twin thrown in. More on that later. It's hard to top the blue refractor card since I drool a puddle onto my scanne...