Night Owl Cards

I normally don't try to complete portions of sets, it's just not the way I was brought up to collect. But as card companies have made set collecting exceedingly difficult over the last couple of decades and not all that attractive at the same time, finishing small segments of sets seems like the better way to go for modern offerings. I did it with 2016 Topps Archives and again with 2019's version of Archives. And now I've done it with the 30-card subset of stadium cards issued in last year's flagship. I knew when I first started pulling these cards out of packs back in early 2019 that I wanted to complete the set. Then I found a bunch of them from Series 1 in a discount box during a card show last spring. I made sure to buy up the Series 2 ones during one of my COMC buys late in the year. So here they are all now, following the Dodgers one, of course, because they're the best: ...

This card has sat on my Nebulous 9 list for far too long. It was easily the most available card on that list for a long period of time and for months and months and months it was the last card I needed to complete the 2017 World Series subset from 2018 Heritage. I finally received the card from Henry at Cardboard Greats . He's the one guy with the guts to send me this card, apparently. I actually don't know why the other cards from this subset arrived so readily (some I pulled, some came via card packages) but this one did not. The only thing I have to go on is it shows the one Astro to do the most damage to the Dodgers in that World Series, hitting a game-winning home run in extra innings of a game that the Dodgers could easily have one. But that was nothing exceptional in that series. It was a crazy back-and-forth series, full of tension, excitement and crushing lows. And this wasn't even the one late-night, walk-off Astros victory, it happened again in that biza...