Night Owl Cards

  Card bloggers who have been at it for a dozen years or more are aware of Dave from Tribe Cards and his seemingly never-ending giveaways. I've mentioned a few times now that he was my introduction to how wonderful card blogging could be. People sent you cards just because you asked. For free. And good stuff, too. The first stuffed box I received not even two months into my blogging career contained a 1950 Bowman card. I had arrived in the blogging world just to write about cards -- isn't that wonderful that you could do that? -- and now this?!?   So when Dave announced almost four years ago that he was launching another giveaway -- a return to the 12 Days of Cardmas Giveaway, even though it wasn't Christmas -- I signed right up, very enthusiastically.   Years went by and I forgot about the whole thing until Dave reappeared last month to announce he was sending stuff out. The original call for sign-ups provided a sign-up "sheet," requesting our top three choices...

Not even two weeks into my start as a card blogger, I received a late-September package from Dave of Tribe Cards , which was then called "Indians Baseball Cards. Always." It was a prize for answering a trivia question correctly on his blog. There were lots of those then. Trivia questions. Card prizes. Baseball cards flying across the country. Very exciting days. I couldn't believe my eyes because this was all new to me. Also, the box was huge, more than 100 cards of different Dodgers and it included a couple of autographs, I believe, and -- holy crap, a 1950 Bowman card of Carl Furillo. Dave's generosity was well-known then and continues to be legend among the veterans of the blogging world. He isn't nearly as prolific in sending out "just because" card packages because, you know, we've determined he's actually human and not some sort of card-sending cyborg. But still, every once in awhile, he gets the itch to send out a bunch of cards...