Night Owl Cards

It's a melancholy kind of day around here. It's rained all day, work is a beast, the Dodgers' win that I recorded yesterday was sabotaged by ESPN's constant switching of games between its networks, and I woke up too early this morning only to catch the news the Pedro Guerrero had suffered a second massive stroke and is currently in a coma. Guerrero was my favorite during the second half of high school and early in college. And I can only hope that the early progress he's made that his wife has mentioned continues. At age 60, he's far too young. While thinking of Guerrero, I dug out this card, which is his first solo card. I had planned this week to write another post in my Start and Finish series , so why not start with one of my favorites? The problem with Guerrero is I don't own the final card of him issued during his career. I have a thing about actually having the cards for this series (which is really going to limit me for people who started o...

Here's a little insight into the thought process behind my want lists, for those who care. Most of my want lists are based on what other collectors have available or are willing to trade. That means the cards are relatively current, and I try to put as many modern card lists up as possible. I also try to put up mostly lists of sets that I'm somewhat close to finishing. At least halfway anyway -- mostly because it gets tedious typing all those numbers. That explains why I say at the top of my want list that I am collecting the 1972 Topps set, but there is no '72 want list. I need lots and lots of cards for that set, so I don't feel comfortable putting it up there. Same goes for last year's Upper Deck Timeline set. I'm half-heartedly collecting it. But I probably only have a fifth of the set. Maybe I'll get to putting those two up there someday. There is one exception to my want list "rules," and that is 1971 Topps. Although I have just over hal...