Night Owl Cards

A post earlier today from Wrigley Wax got my attention. I am a sucker for helmets on baseball cards and even did a post a few years ago trying to figure out why I liked them so much. WW dug up the first Topps card to show a Cubs player wearing a helmet. I suppose if you run a Cubs blog that's what you got to do. I was surprised that there wasn't a helmeted Cub before 1963 until I considered that helmets weren't made mandatory for all players until 1958 (and not strictly enforced until 1970), and helmets most often appeared during games, which Topps didn't regularly shoot until the '70s. I quickly went through my collection to find the first Topps card of a Dodger wearing a helmet. I came up with 1962 Topps Larry Burright here, an extra careful chap, wearing a helmet while fielding grounders. I wasn't extra careful researching this though, so I'll have to double-check for the next helmet post. That's right, the next helmet post. I told you I li...

When I write on the  1975 Topps blog , I take a trip through my childhood in each and every post. That's because there is category on each post that states "What I thought about this card then ." I then must delve into my 9-year-old mind and try to remember what I was thinking on that day when I pulled the card with my fudgesicle-stained fingers. It's a good way to get in touch with the kid in me, not that I'm not very well-versed with that aspect already (people who never talk about their childhood concern me). It's almost like self-analysis, and I've figured out a couple things about me through the process of going back to my childhood days of collecting. The first thing is that I don't remember half as much as I thought I did. I used to remember exactly where I found each card that I obtained in 1975. I'd know which drug store. I'd know which trade partner. But the deeper I get into that blog, the more the memories fade. Cards that ...