Night Owl Cards

I recently received some cards from two different blogging buds. The envelopes from each featured vastly different cards, but there was one thing in common with both of them. First the cards from Daniel of It's Like Having My Own Card Shop (come back to your blog, Daniel!)     Many of the cards he sent that I needed were shiny -- I mean super-shiny, like that Puig example.   OK, that one isn't shiny, just mini.   But these are shiny and they are also cards that are the theme of the post title. They will not stay flat. I could place them under a large box filled with my Dodgers dupes for six months and they still wouldn't be as flat as your average card. And you know what, it doesn't bother me much -- in this example. I  will put them in a binder and they won't warp the pages, so it's all cool. I will always give a pass to something in pretty colors. The other envelope was from J...

  Welcome to the Vintage Week finale.   So, just before I went on vacation last month, a work acquaintance was clearing out his childhood home, which is a few hours from here. He uncovered his childhood card collection and, having no interest in collecting anymore, wondered if he could sell it. He knew I collected cards, based on the conversations I've had with the guy who works downstairs (the one who clears out store shelves and chats up the distributor). He asked if he could bring some of it in and I could gauge what he had. Sure, I said. Because, here's the thing: he's older than me. This isn't one of those many people who was hoarding junk wax in the late '80s.   A couple days later he brought in several shopping bags with his collection in tow. Instantly, I was impressed. Almost all of the cards were from the 1960s and 1970s and they ran across all four major sports, baseball, football, basketball and hockey.   Before I go through the cards and sets, though, I...

  OK, I have some more time now to write about the goodies that landed on my porch last Monday.   The Orel Hershiser auto from the previous post was one of the highlights, but it wasn't the only highlight. I received envelopes from four different people. Besides Gavin's "thanks for reading" prize, I received another envelope from the great state of Oregon, from The Diamond King . Upon reflection, he said he wasn't too enthusiastic over a few of his card show dime box pick ups, but I sure was. I am an admitted mark for colored border parallels, even Panini ones, so yes I am quite happy about these cards showing Kershaw in his milkman delivery uniform. These three cards happen to be Nos. 894, 895 and 896 in my Kershaw collection. That No. 900 post is on the horizon! A needed Jackie mini from 2019 also appeared in the envelope. Another parallel that I love more than I should. The next Monday envelope arrived from the Card Stacks Blog , which has perked back up again...

Waiting is even more of a part of life than it used to be, which doesn't seem possible considering how much waiting I did pre-pandemic, but yet there is sooo much moooore waiting. A lot of it I can understand, even if it doesn't make me happy and I'm plain disgusted about it some of the time. Then there is just the dumb kind of waiting. For example, this: I waited almost an entire year to get this card, but it's not because there were no Heritage cards on store shelves or I was pulling nothing but Marlins and Twins. Walker Buehler should have been in the regular Heritage set, issued last March. He's a regular part of the rotation, was a regular part of the rotation in 2020. There's no reason to skip him. Yet Topps put Buehler in Heritage High Numbers, like it did for several notable players who did not change teams and should've been in the main portion of the set (Buster Posey, Manny Machado, Stephen Strasburg, Rafael Devers). I've read that Topps did t...