Night Owl Cards

So baseball's regular season has ended ... at lightning speed from my perspective. I don't remember a season moving so fast, but I'm sure it's just another example of time speeding up as you age.   A bunch of teams are going to the playoffs (I remember when it was just four) and I'll get to that eventually. But right now I want to address a team that didn't reach the playoffs. In fact, it finished as far away from the playoffs as possible.   The Rockies completed the season 43-119. That's a .265 winning percentage. That's pathetic. That's a pathetic team.   It may not seem that shocking though because there was a team just last year that was even worse. The 2024 White Sox finished 41-121 for a .253 percentage.   It looks like I wrote that post about the worst teams since I became a fan a little too early. Since I wrote that two years ago, two teams went and topped (bottomed?) any of the other lousy teams that I had previously experienced in the 50 y...

(Happy Labor Day. I am actually celebrating this Labor Day because it's so early this year that school sports don't even start until this coming weekend and don't fully hit the fan until next week! Usually, there's a full-slate of soccer bombing us the Tuesday after the holiday. Small favors! Time for Cardboard Appreciation. This is the 342nd in a series):   This is Grady Sizemore's first solo card in Topps flagship. He was a hot topic during my early blogging years. It boggles my mind that he's a manager now. I'm not sure he wanted to start his Major League managing career with a team as terrible as the White Sox, though I'm guessing if you're "in baseball," as the big-leaguers sometimes say, having one of the 30 managing jobs available is an honor.   Last year around this time I wrote a post about the worst major league teams since I became a fan . It didn't take even a year for that post to be out of date. Little did I know that a ne...

  This is the second of two posts inspired by the 1983 Topps Jeff Newman card ( the first one ). You never know where you're going to find inspiration. By 1983, Newman and the A's had experienced Billy Ball and a slight improvement in their fortunes, although they'd backslide in the mid '80s until the Bash Brothers came along. But Newman was part of the worst team of my childhood, the 1979 Oakland A's. They went 54-108 for a .333 winning percentage and they seemed like the most pathetic club ever produced. Here is a general look at that team from the 1979 Topps perspective: I know these are actually pictures of the 1978 A's, but they weren't very good either and, still, what a collection of "who???" In hindsight, players like Tony Armas, Mitchell Page and Mike Norris would go on to be name players. But when we were collecting these cards, very few of these guys were familiar. (This should have been a Joy of a Team Set post). As I pulled Taylor Dunc...