Night Owl Cards

You know, if my mother had let me eat whatever I wanted to eat when I was a kid, this wouldn't be that big of a deal. Twinkies never showed up in my house. And neither did whatever other Hostess products that featured a baseball card panel. Also, I believe my mother would have really had to let my nutrition go to hell for me to land a Ron Cey Hostess card in 1979, because everything I've read says that the short-prints in the '79 set appeared on less popular brands. "Have some sno-balls, kid! Nobody else is eating 'em, but nobody else has a Ron Cey card either!" The Ron Cey card in the '79 Hostess set is a short-print, one of 15 SPs in the set (the others are J.R. Richard, Greg Luzinski, Ed Ott, Dennis Martinez, Darrell Evans, Rick Dempsey, Vida Blue, Phil Garner, Rick Manning, Mark Fidrych, Mario Guerrero, Bob Stinson, Al Oliver and Doug Flynn). The card has been on my Nebulous 9 list for months, longer than any other card since the list was star...

Hi. I think I've done a decent enough job conveying how important my childhood is in my hobby of collecting baseball cards. It's why I am collecting today. If I didn't collect cards as a kid, there's a good chance I wouldn't be collecting now. There is no bigger thrill for me in this hobby than finding a card that connects me to the joyful moments I had as a kid when I pulled or looked at or played with that card. The vast majority of those childhood memories are contained in 1975. The years 1974-77 are prime territory for childhood card memories, too, but 1975 ... well, 1975 I could dedicate an entire blog to all of the card memories created that year. In fact, I did . I had it pretty good as a 9-year-old boy. Topps produced one of its most colorful and memorable sets of all-time during my first year of collecting. It's no wonder I'm still collecting now. Also that year, Topps decided to produce a parallel set to its main set and market it in sel...

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I received a few more 1975 Topps minis from Mark H. the other day. Mr. Sutherland is one of them. The cards would be appropriate for this post, but I don't have the time to scan them all in, so I'll have to find something pseudo creative for those cards in another post. Those minis get me down to needing about 70 more to complete the set (I counted the other day and can't remember the exact number now because I'm old -- duh, I'm collecting '75 minis). This is great, of course, but it also means that time is ticking on finally getting pages to fit all those '75 minis. But apparently, UltraPro is clued into my '75 Topps mini completion timeline because this it what it released today: When I saw it, I kind of sat and stared at it in stupor. I had just woken up after another long Olympic work session and my mind plays tricks on me in the late morning. So, I just sent a little message to UltraPro to make sure it wasn't all a dream. To ...