Night Owl Cards

For several months now, I've had an idea of creating an "all-doing team" for the blog. You know what an "all-doing team" is, right? It's a team of baseball players whose names form an active sentence. Such as "Rick Waits". This is my favorite example, but there are others. The question was, would I be able to form a team out of those players? But I struggled to do that. I have no doubt if I had the time for enough research, I could come up with a full lineup, but working within my constricted schedule (you don't want every post to be a trade post, do you?), I just couldn't find enough infielders. Kind of interesting, since infielders are moving all the time. No, the vast majority of players who form active sentences with their names are pitchers. It just confirms that without pitchers, this game would cease to exist. You can't start a baseball game until a pitcher throws a pitch. They make the game go 'round. So let...

I am a simple guy when it comes to numbers. I do like them. But too many make my brain hurt. It's been that way since I sat in math class. I did well. I even did well when the algebra and calculus books came out. But I couldn't wait for it to go away forever. No, the best thing for me when it comes to numbers is to make it simple and make it amuse me. For me, there's no better example than 1981 Fleer. If you collected Fleer that crazy summer of '81 when there were THREE -- that's right, THREE -- sets to chase (it's sad that people younger than age 35 have no idea how freaky that was), you probably remember one of the main components of the card backs. Fleer featured the card number in the left-hand corner and the player's career average or career earned-run average in the right-hand corner. It was kind of nifty, but also confusing. I was forever transposing the average with the card number and I'd think Mitchell Page's card number w...