Night Owl Cards

In 2007, the last year Sports Illustrated came to my house every week, the magazine featured a story on Triple A Dodgers pitcher Matt White. It was a follow-up story from MLB.com on the journeyman reliever who had already seen his last major league appearance by that time. White had bought some land in western Massachusetts and had discovered that the rock on that land was valued at over $2 billion dollars. This captured my imagination as it obviously did with all of baseball at the time. The media went wild with the story even though White was still toiling for a minor league salary, knowing that the cost of excavating all of that rock would cost thousands upon thousands. They called him the "Baseball Billionaire" and teammates like Luis Gonzalez sang him the theme to "The Beverly Hillbillies". I thought the story was so cool that I filed away in my brain to someday get a baseball card of Matt White, hopefully in a Dodger uniform. I had just gotten ba...