Night Owl Cards

We are living in that no-man's land between last year's cards and the first Topps release of the 2017 season. There are two full weeks left in new cardboard purgatory. I'm eager to put 2016 and its cards behind, but when you can't get your hands on 2017 cards yet, there is nothing more new than cards from 2016. Plus I need to clear out some cards from the scanned folder. So here is one last look back on cards I scanned in 2016 but didn't feel like showing you when it would have been more appropriate. I believe this card came from Cards On Cards . It's a numbered item from 2016 Chrome. I think I didn't show this because I was so devastated by the fact that blue chrome cards used to be my all-time favorite "fancy" cards back when THERE WERE BORDERS. This card makes me sad. But it's too rare not to show, so here you go, after the fact. I pulled this card out of the only Bowman pack purchase I made last year. I admit I was st...

(Today is "Moment of Frustration Day." Again, I did not make this up. But I certainly could have. Still, I don't know how we're supposed to limit this to just one day a year. Plenty of frustration to go around. Anyway, let's turn our attention to something more pleasant. It's Cardboard Appreciation time. This is the 85th in a series): I've got a lot of cards scanned. But for some of them I have only a little bit to say. So I figured "why not put them all together here and maybe I can get some answers?" Or not. So here are some cards, from the Wondering Night Owl: Is this the tightest head shot in the history of baseball cards? Is this the most awkward uniform number placement in the history of baseball cards? If I told you I once owned this jacket, except that it didn't feature the "Astros" name line, would you think less of me? One of these players has plead guilty to federal charges. The other hasn't. Yet ...