Night Owl Cards

If you are tempted to skip this post because it's a single-card post, or it's a player you don't know, or it's "just some old card," perhaps this bit of trivia will keep you here: In terms of every player to play in major league baseball, listed alphabetically, George Zuverink is the third-to-last name on that list. According to baseball-reference, you would have to read 19,687 names before finally arriving at: 19,688. George Zuverink 19,689. Dutch Zwilling 19,690. Tony Zych Until Tony Zych came along in 2015 (Zych pitched in 70 games for the Mariners, you can find him mostly in prospect sets and Team USA sets), Zuverink was the penultimate name on the MLB list with only Dutch Zwilling, who played from 1910-16, holding down the rear. Let's delve a little more into the Z's of Major League Baseball since you have told me by reading to this point that you are fascinated by this topic. So am I! Let's go! Just 96 players with a last name ...

I have been offering this particular item up for whatever late 1950s Dodger card I can find on the Million Card Giveaway site. I'm hoping it will land me something from 1959, a great year in Dodger history. At the very least, I'm hoping that the people I've made offers to don't out-and-out ignore me. That is very annoying. How can you have redeemed a late '50s Dodger card and not pay attention to the MCG site at least periodically? Or is it really that difficult to hit the "decline" button? Anyway, I've got to at least try with this card as it's the oldest one I've redeemed. This will be one of my final acts on the MCG site. I have left a few older cards, like Georgey boy, in my portfolio in hopes that they will entice someone to trade me something that I like more. Then my very last act will be to order shipment of those final cards before the March deadline. I'll probably do that in January, before the 2011 cards hit shelves. Me...

In yet another unsettling development in the modern card scene, I have suddenly grown weary of rack packs. This is disturbing. In my cash-crunch state, I have subsisted on rack packs to obtain my weekly intake of modern card nutrients. Blasters bind up the system. But I have grown increasingly frustrated with the rack pack servings. It's basically my own fault. I'm looking for Dodgers only, and buying rack packs isn't going to get that done. But I never thought it would be this brutal. For example, I have pulled a grand total of two Dodgers (Ramirez and Martin) out of Topps Chrome. Meanwhile I have dupes of five different Angels. Last night I decided to try another Topps Chrome rack pack, plus a Bowman Chrome rack pack and a Topps Update rack pack. They were all hanging out together, side-by-side, and I couldn't resist trying out the newbies, along with my annoying friend, Topps Chrome. I'm not going to show too many of the cards, because they're di...