Night Owl Cards

  OK, that's a click-bait title. I'm sorry. I didn't actually find 2023 Heritage cards, which have been obviously delayed, but I did spot the release date for the product just now. It's scheduled to be released May 31. That's more than two months later than it has been released in past years, as it's often a mid-March product. But release dates continue to be delayed and one look at the release calendar shows that the majority of what's being released in the next month are 2022 cards. Only 2023 Bowman (late April) and 2023 Donruss (mid-May) stick out as current-year cards on the horizon. Issuing Heritage at the end of May makes sense because Topps isn't putting out Gypsy Queen this year and that's usually been a mid-May product. Heritage fills a slot. I'd like to think that the delay in the release would mean updates for players who have changed teams, but I have my doubts considering we're buried in 2022 arrivals. (It'd be nice if 2023 ...

My posts the last couple of weeks haven't generated the usual traction for whatever reason. No matter, but for someone who has built an audience over the years, there are certain expectations. Sometimes you have to bring out the click bait to remind people why they came here in the first place. Yup, I'm listing the 10 most overrated baseball card sets of all-time. "Overrated" is about the biggest insult in the sports world. It's been hurled at teams and athletes for so long now, often by obnoxious and unaccomplished college students, that I don't know why anyone is fazed by the word anymore. But it's still guaranteed to bring a strong reaction. Everyone likes to think of themselves as "underrated," and by extension, the sets that they love as underrated, too. Nobody would think a set that they adore is "overrated." Two years ago, I listed the most underrated sets and it received positive reaction, because, again, who doesn...