Night Owl Cards

  I've been pretty damn busy today, really pretty damn busy the last few weeks, and it makes me sad that I can't spend all the live long day looking for 2024 Topps.   That's partly Topps fault for deciding to release its flagship set on The Relationship Holiday and two days after The Biggest Football Thing Ever. Give us a chance to breathe, man!   It's also the time that I recognize the birthday of my all-time favorite player, Ron Cey. Today is that day. He's 76 today and wow, I hope I get to be 76.   Last year, on his 75th birthday, I showed all of the 1975 cards in my collection. I'll do that for you now with '76.   Lots of round cards to go with the square ones. (I swear those four that look almost exactly alike are different). I also have that Linnett Superstars oversized item somewhere, but there's zero time to search for it. Usually I take the time to find a new Ron Cey card for my collection on this day. I've done that -- sorry, it's anoth...

You can't be in this blog business for very long before collectors are sending you items "just because." I take it as the ultimate compliment, that people see something, think "night owl might like that," and take the time to package it up and send it my way. The vast majority of these packages contain baseball cards. But sometimes they don't. I received a couple of unusual packages recently. The first arrived from Ryan at The Great Orioles Autograph Project . Ryan has been a reader of this blog for awhile, and I always really appreciate his comments. He's one of those guys who will actually let you know that what you wrote may have struck a chord. Not everyone does that, so when someone does it's very cool. Anyway, he sent an oddly shaped box and I had no idea what was in it. What came out were definitely not cards. Now, these items weren't scannable, and I have no time to set up a photo studio and take pictures. So I had to find ...