Night Owl Cards

  Yes, more charting. I'm going to say this is the April thing to do and be fine with it.   As much as I gripe about how you can't even get a Shohei Ohtani base card without shelling out a buck fifty, I'm still adding cards of my new favorite player at a decent clip. Topps produces so many cards of him that I can't help it. And every time I check which players rank the highest in my collection in terms of number of cards, Ohtani is climbing the charts probably faster than anyone.   About a week or so ago I received a package from Jeremy of Topps Cards That Never Were , which made it very clear that he's not afraid to ship out Ohtani cards to someone who could really use them.   Uh, I guess there's not a base card in there, huh? But that foursome is pretty snazzy. The 2026 flagship card with the leaf pattern arrived in a separate envelope as Jeremy said he forgot to include it. He also added that I hope I like it. I do I do.   The green parallel Heritage card is ...

  Most of the time when I show new Dodger card arrivals it's related to cards a fellow collector/trader sent or it's a larger order from sportlots or COMC or another online site.   Rarely do I show single card purchases unless I can turn it into a post. I guess I'm doing that now, but this 2026 Sports Illustrated For Kids Yoshinobu Yamamoto card could be any Dodger card to get this quick post started. (Yes, another quick post, I swear someone made the days only 22 hours now).   This is the first 2026 Dodger in my collection that was not made by Topps. I received it in a unique TCDB trade in which I traded a couple 9-pocket mini pages for it (I hope JR3 has received the pages, I always get nervous when I see no update in the transactions for a few days -- especially since the USPS ate a few random Dodgers I ordered a month ago).   Obviously I don't have a lot of 2026 Dodgers yet but it's a good time to go through another update of how many Dodger cards I have for eac...

    A Pirates account on Bluesky recently featured the Pirates player for which he had the most cards and then put out the question (I'm paraphrasing), "which Pirates player has the most cards in your collection?"   My favorite team isn't the Pirates, so I could only guess. My first thought was Dave Parker, but I knew that wasn't right because he also appeared with the Reds on many junk wax sets that at least equaled the number of Pirates cards I owned of Parker.   This got me curious about the player with the most cards for every MLB team in my collection. So I went to TCDB to crunch the numbers -- which took a few days because TCDB has been crashing like mad lately.   It turns out I was correct about Parker. He's not my collection's most frequent Pirate. But I was in the right era. My most for each team is the product of several factors: the era when I started collecting ('70s), my favorite cards (also the '70s and early '80s), the overproduc...

  I've been logging my collection on Trading Card Database for four years now and have been trading on the site for around three-plus years.   It's taken me that long to reach 100 trades because I rarely have the time or motivation to make my own offers. But I hit that milestone last week with the largest total number of cards I've received in a single TCDB trade.   It was also the greatest difference in cards received and cards sent-out for one trade. My trade partner, Thebradford16, wanted just three cards (I threw in a handful more). In exchange, I added 167 cards to my collection.   Admittedly, this is a benefit of being a well-known blogger in the hobby. My trade partner was just looking to deal with someone he had read and helped him get back into the hobby. And my reward came in the form of a whole bunch of 1983 Donruss for the collection!     A cross-section from that stack. Love seeing my guys on new-to-me cardboard.      Some more v...