Night Owl Cards

  Needed a fun, short post for a Friday and the mail carrier delivered. I'll try to remember this when the post office eats my ESE (ebay standard envelope) order.   A couple of weeks ago I received an alert on one of my ebay searches for the Ron Cey MSA discs. Someone had put up for sale one of the final four I needed. It had been a good while since I had seen one I didn't have.   Unfortunately:   That next word after "Very" is "Scarce". Yeah, OK, buddy. There's no way I'm paying that for an unlicensed disc that looks like a bunch of others already in my collection. Just to confirm that this was a rip-off, I found someone else selling like 15 MSA discs of the same Red Barn variation for $15. There was no Ron Cey in the lot, unfortunately, but I thought about getting it anyway. Sadly, someone scooped it up while I was thinking. (The Red Barn back has two varieties, one with an address on the back and one without. But this seller doesn't mention wh...

It didn't take me long, after writing this post and getting all lathered up and determined, to stake out what I could of the remaining 1977 Kellogg's cards on my want list. "Well if they're going to make it difficult with 'the pop culture tax,' I am not going to give up! I'm going to go right at them!" I immediately hopped on ebay to see what I could snag. The first card off my want list that I found was Al Oliver. Purchased. Shipped. The second card was Greg Luzinski. Purchased. Shipped. The third card was Rick Manning. Purchased. Shipped. The fourth card was Bill North. Purchased. Shipped. This all happened on a Wednesday night. None of the cards cost me more than 3 or 4 bucks. That left six more cards on my want list. One was George Brett, which was/is available but I'm going to have to pay 10 or 15 bucks for it, so I set that aside. Another is George Foster, which is the first card in the set and apparently that...