Night Owl Cards

Back in the feverish, exciting early days of Topps Lineage, before we realized that the '75 minis were the only thing worth pursuing from the set and that we may have witnessed the worst card backs ever created, I grabbed a bunch of Lineage from a card shop in Buffalo and pulled this autograph redemption. As I mentioned on this post , this redemption could be very good or very bad. Very good because Randy Jackson was a third baseman for the Dodgers in the mid-to-late '50s. Very bad because Jackson was also a third baseman for the Cubs in the early '50s. I was rooting for a Jackson autograph featuring him as a Dodger, because I can count the number of Dodger hits I've pulled in my life on the hand of Mordecai "Three-Finger" Brown. But I knew in the back of my mind that Jackson would appear as a Cub because: 1. The old-timer autos in Lineage are on the '52 Topps design and Jackson was a Cub in the '52 Topps set. 2. I'm just not that lucky. ...

Yes, you have to look at the Mick wrapper again. I'm sorry. Topps has issues. I actually picked up nine packs adorned with Mantle wrappers the other day while roaming through one of the Dave and Adam's Card World locations in the Buffalo area. I had never been to this one before. You'd think that with all the business that they do online, the worldwide recognition, that their card shop would be a little larger than your average store. But it's not, really. It looks disturbingly like the one in my town that I rarely patron. I bought the Topps Lineage and some much-needed tobacco-card sized pages because it's all that intrigued me, for the cash I had anyway. And there's no way I would have bought nine packs of Lineage if my dear mother-in-law hadn't handed me some cash out of the blue. Now, don't tell her that I spent it on packs of this stuff, which cost $5.25 per. I think Dave ... or Adam ... or just some guy that I've seen on their advertis...

Hi. My name is Jim. If you've seen this show before, you know that I'm the guy who helps out "What's the Best Card in the Package" host Night Owl as we take a half hour out of your lives to show you the best card in the package. I basically run the whole show. Night Owl hogs the spotlight because that's just the kind of guy he is -- he's basically a jerk -- but I'm the one who does all the work. Anyway, you might remember Night Owl talking about how he lives in a pretty dicey part of town and there are young toughs waiting to beat him up. Well, it happened. Night Owl's recovering in a hospital bed right now. He'll be out in a few days, but it's going to be just liquids for awhile. They talked about postponing WTBCITP until he was ready to talk again, but this production schedule is relentless and ... well, here I am. I'm not the game show type and I can't run the equipment and stay on camera at the same time, so you're ...