Night Owl Cards

A couple of milestones -- one mine, one not -- regarding the total number of cards for a particular player, conspired last night to create this post. Right around the time The Lost Collector announced on his blog that he had reached 1,000 Tino Martinez cards for his collection, I crossed 200 Corey Seager cards when I recorded the above 2020 Topps variation card sent to me by the Starting Nine . Now, there are obvious differences between those two milestones, aside from the difference of 800 cards. First, Martinez's career is over. He played for 16 seasons, primarily during the card glut of the 1990s, and for whatever reason they're still making cards of him. Seager is still playing and this is the beginning of just his sixth season. Second, I am not a player collector. I don't actively seek out Seager cards like AJ does Martinez cards. Seager cards come to me because I collect Dodger cards, but there is no other mission. So, what does that say? Maybe it's ...