Night Owl Cards

I did go to the card show. I'm happy to say I did a fantastic job of buying. But I'm going to wait until tomorrow to show off that stuff. I'm pretty tired and I need some time to absorb it all so I don't plague you with a bunch of exclamation points. Instead, I wanted to write something about blogs. I love card blogs. I have since I found them 5 1/2 years ago. I follow more than 300 of them. And I try to look at all of them just about every day. In many ways, it's what I do. Yes, I'm a husband and a father and a journalist and a tax payer and a card collector. But my job description also needs to include "reader of card blogs" because I do that ... a lot. Even though I read so many of them, I don't mind when more show up. I rather like it. For example,  Baseball Card Breakdown is a fairly new blog and I enjoy reading it. Recently, BCB's owner, Gavin, sent me some of his homemade glow-in-the-dark cards. Some of them glowed in the ...

I am a child of the 1970s. As a kid, I dined on space food sticks , collected Wacky Packages , played Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots, and sang along to The Electric Company . My love for baseball and baseball cards also began in the '70s. The first cards I ever saw were from the 1974 Topps set. My mother bought them for me and my brother while on a trip to the store. We enjoyed the cards, but when the summer ended, we thought the cards ended, too, and we THREW THEM AWAY. Fortunately, we weren't such dumb asses the following year. We collected the cards from the 1975 Topps set and held on to them (I have those frayed, scuffed and creased pieces of cardboard to this day). Like all collectors, I have great affection for the set that started it all, and as an added bonus, the 1975 set is considered classic by many (some still don't like it). My favorite team was the Dodgers from the beginning, and I'm still a faithful Dodger fan. My favorite player as a kid was "...