Night Owl Cards

I am not super strict in how I order my cards. My Dodgers are in order by year, then set, then player. My incomplete sets that are in either binders or boxes are in order by team most times, but by number periodically. But my complete sets? They are all in order by card number, almost without exception. I'm sure I've gone through this before. But searching for cards that you want when they are in order by card number can be an absolute pain. It's a lot easier to find a card if they're in alphabetical order (who has the time for that?) or by team. So that's why I have a lot of my sets in order by team. But I can put my complete sets in order by number because there is little chance that I am going to break up the set. I don't need to search for particular cards to trade or ship off to people, so I put them in order by number as the card maker apparently intended that to happen. I feel like I'm continuing a collecting tradition. I have done this fo...

Way back in the first days of the blog, I mentioned that the one player in the major leagues today who seemed like he was put on this earth to play baseball, the one player who I couldn't possibly envision doing anything else, was Chipper Jones. Even though there could be any number of players about which you could say the same thing, for me, there could be only one player like this at a time. The first player I attached to this concept was Cal Ripken Jr. No real surprise. He came from a baseball family. What else was he going to do? But when I saw Ripken, I knew that he was THE Baseball Guy, the man who if someone said, "give me an example of the ideal baseball player," would flash instantly on everyone's screen. But Ripken held that title all the way until his retirement. Being THE Baseball Guy is a career-long responsibility, and no one can take it from you. Since Ripken's departure, Jones has held the honor. But now that Chipper is old and dec...