Night Owl Cards

You may have read, Dime Box Nick went to a card show over the weekend. Yeah, I know, hard to believe, right? Nick posting about a card show? With the number that he goes to he could rename his blog "I'm at a Card Show ... Again" and it would be completely accurate. It must be quite the feeling to have that many shows on the docket ( we're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside! ). Last weekend's show appeared to be a hit, based solely on the Hostess cards he displayed. That's the kind of stuff I should be finding at my twice-a-year show. But as I've mentioned before, I am the beneficiary of Nick's many shows. He sent me a nice stack of cards recently and I'm pretty sure many of the cards came from his show-going. But come inside, the show's about to start. It's guaranteed to blow your head apart: He sent 19 Allen & Ginter minis in an attempt to crack my frankenset binder. The above seven actually did make th...

I finally finished archiving my complete 2015 Topps set yesterday. It was a long process, a process that makes me consider never completing another modern-day flagship set again (like there aren't enough other reasons), and it took so long partly because of the bloated Update set. I grew up with the 132-card Update set ... although it was called the "traded set" then. "Update" might make more sense, given all the various features in that set currently, and it's certainly better than previous incarnations -- "Traded & Rookies" and "Updates & Highlights." But I still prefer "Traded". Because even though this hobby is all about rookies now, I looked forward to the Traded set to see players in their new uniforms above anything else. It was mind-blowing then, to see Cesar Cedeno, someone who I knew only as an Astro for almost a decade, show up as a Cincinnati Red, bordered by the same design as the Astro Cedeno. Afte...