Night Owl Cards

I was aimlessly wandering through my blogs the other day. It's the only way I can explain how I discovered this. I was looking at the stats of my completed 1975 Topps (it's far out, man) blog , which have been pretty consistent at 50 or 60 views a day as I haven't posted anything there in a year-and-a-half. I noticed a monstrous spike in viewership that occurred on Wednesday. Since spikes like this are unusual on dormant blogs, I investigated a little and noted that the spikes could be attributed to folks clicking on the entry for George Mitterwald, a forgotten catcher for the Twins and Cubs in the '70s. Normally this means some wildly popular website has linked to an entry of mine for whatever quirky reason. But that was not the case this time. No, the reason that people were reaching my blog of random facts and personal musings was because of the Cubs game against the White Sox that day. Dioner Navarro, a former Dodger, hit three home runs that game to beco...