Night Owl Cards

Steve, from one of the finest card blogs around, White Sox Cards , and I recently completed a team trade of Sox for Dodgers. He's already posted about the White Sox he received. Now it's my turn to post the Dodgers. The White Sox and the Dodgers have a bit of a history, being two of the older franchises in baseball. There's the bad: the White Sox still getting lots of use out of former Dodger prospect Paul Konerko. There's the good: that 1959 World Series when the Dodgers beat the White Sox for the championship. (I have interviewed a member of that '59 White Sox team, but as my aunt likes to say all the time, "We're not talking about that right now.") I've always liked the White Sox. Out of the AL playoff teams, they're the ones I wanted to make the Series. I much prefer them to that other Chicago franchise for several reasons. The White Sox and their fans just seem a bit more real than the Cubs and their cuddly sun-worshippers. Add the fact t...