Night Owl Cards

This post is dedicated to my early days of prospecting and the late, great Tom Underwood. Underwood died last week at age 56 after battling pancreatic cancer. The news stopped me for a moment because just last week I had pulled Underwood's 1976 Topps rookie cup card while looking for cards to feature on the "Top 60 Ever" posts. How freaky is it to look at a card that you haven't viewed in a year or two and find out that the player had died that same week? That still floors me. I thought Underwood was going to be a great player in 1976. I had no idea what prospecting was then. Nobody did. But I kept that card under a close eye, because he was going to transform the Philadelphia Phillies pitching staff into something epic. Steve Carlton, watch your back, because a new ace was in town. That never happened. Underwood had a respectable career, but he wasn't an ace for the Phillies, or the Cardinals (horrible airbrushing job in '78 Topps), or the Blue Jays,...

I don't know what's been going on with blogger the last couple of days, but clicking on every single card blog to see if they have any new posts is no way to live. Posts don't appear on my reader for five or six hours after they are posted. And I can see by everyone's blog rolls that the most recent posts are six hours old. So, I want the record to show that I posted this in the wee hours of the morning. It'll probably pop up on everyone's readers around lunch time, which is ruining the good Night Owl name. Night Owl is supposed to post at night! And while you're here, please take a look at the other recent posts I've done while blogger has been goofing around. Whatever the issue is, let's get it fixed! On to another topic. I trade with a shocking number of Mets fans. I've mentioned that before. There are a lot of Indians bloggers , Red Sox bloggers , Royals bloggers . But Mets bloggers blow everyone out of the water. Somehow, and I ...