Night Owl Cards

One of the "perks" of getting older is the constant reminder of how quickly the days pass the more you age. This was something my older relatives would talk about all the time when I was younger, and I would kind of dismiss it. But, they were oh, so correct. There isn't a week that goes by where I don't think about how easily time slips away. Take the 1983 Topps set, for example, which I'm trying to complete. It stuns me that this set is 25 years old. It stuns me that there are grown adults, holding down jobs, getting married, blogging , who were not alive when this set was first issued. I find that staggering. This set is a symbol of my progression from adolescence to adulthood, a set that came out the year I graduated from high school. It doesn't seem that long ago at all. Meanwhile, younger collectors consider it "vintage." That blows my mind. I received a few more "vintage" 1983s from Joe of MLB Collector last week. He sent me eight ca...

This goes against everything I stand for as a collector, but I have to say it: stop sending me cards. Well, OK, I didn't mean it like that . I merely meant stop sending me 1986 Topps cards, because in the last two weeks I went from needing more than half of the set to needing JUST FIVE CARDS. Today I received two packages in the mail, both including 1986 cards. Those two packages, from Joe of MLB Collector and Tom of Lets Play 2 , whittled my want list down to merely #45 Damaso Garcia, #102 Joe Orsulak, #135, Joe Niekro, #500, Rickey Henderson and #562, Joe Beckwith. Two Yankees in that group. The final cards I need to complete a set almost invariably include Yankees. That team is destined to haunt me until the day I die. The fact that I was able to make such short work of a 792-card set is a testament to the great blogging community and its generosity. Granted, this is '86 Topps, not a PSA-graded 1964 set like Tom is working on, but, still, come on, you guys are great. Thank...