Night Owl Cards

When we last left the Storybook Binder, the plethora of Dodger cards from the '90s and '00s had transformed into very recent Dodger wants and set needs. I have the other half of the binder, which @ grogg sent, to show here, but there is one thing I forgot to display in the first post. This is the side of the binder. Greg inserted a 1975 Topps Garry Maddox card into the opening. This is the sign of a faithful reader and a thoughtful gift-giver. Not only is the '75 Topps set my favorite, but if you've read the 1975 Topps (it's far out, man) blog, you know how much that particular Maddox card means to me, and meant to me as a child. Very cool. OK, let's turn the page to the next story in the binder. I left off with a page of 2015 Topps Series 2 wants and here is the other full page of wants from that set. By the way, I've accumulated quite a stack of dupes from 2015 Topps. If you need any, let me know. The 2015 wants morph into 2014 Al...

I'm into year eight of Night Owl Cards and I'm still coming across experiences that I never knew possible. For instance, a few days before Christmas, a very large package arrived in the mail. It was from Greg of Nearly Mint , who is one of my tightest acquaintances on Twitter ( @grogg is currently collecting the 1974 Topps set, by the way). I knew that he was preparing something impressive to send me. I just had no idea how impressive. What came out of that box was an entire baseball card binder. In the last eight years, I have never received a binder in the mail ever -- not even an empty one, let alone one filled with baseball cards. But that's exactly what it was. I was so taken by it that I didn't even think about the cards at first. My first thought was: "Cool! A new binder! I NEED one of those! Then I started to open it and take in the variety of cards contained within. It occurred to me that it was much like a storybook -- in cardboard form...