Night Owl Cards

  It's February, which means January is over, and that's worth celebrating for a variety of reasons. This past month I may have added fewer cards to my collection than any other month since I started blogging. I'm not fanatical about budgets so who knows if that's true, but it sure felt like I wasn't accumulating.   In fact, I can count the number of cards I picked up online last month on two hands plus a couple digits from someone else. And seven of those 12 cards were repeats -- meaning I had them already.   You saw the '76 Kellogg's Reggie Jackson, that was purchased to replace the one that cracked under my watch. The rest of them are 1975 Topps buybacks! Weeeeeeeeeee!   I am trying to stay positive in this hunt, which is difficult with my "prepare for the worst/hope for the best" tendencies. I can't help but think the buyback pursuit window is starting to close. But then something like this happens.   I found a seller on ebay who had a bunc...

Some of you need some cheering up . I think I have the perfect thing. I rarely wish that I was capable of video on this blog. But this is the one time that I do. I received a gift in the mail a couple of weeks ago from Andy of the Baseball-Reference.com blog . It was a thank you for my blog work and contributions to the B-R blog. The gift was one of the coolest items that I have received since blogging, and probably years before that. You're looking at the gift right now. The scan that you see is a scan of an unopened wax package of 1975 Topps MINIS . A 36-year-old wax pack dating back to the very first year that I opened packs of cards. And we're going to open it. I expect it to be something like this: Except, you know, more manly, with beer and babes and bazookas. But first we're going to take a look at the back of the wrapper, all nerdy-like. What a wonderful sight. Sealed just for me, and packaged with just the right amount of dextrose and B...