Night Owl Cards

To me, cards from 1991 are like a song on the radio that you have heard at least 40,000 times and never want to hear again. 1991 Fleer is like "Boys of Summer" by Don Henley, and 1991 Donruss is like "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor. Whether overproduced or over played, they all need to find a place to disappear. But like being suckered into turning back to the classic rock station, knowing I'm going to hear the opening to Eye of the Tiger within a half hour tops (Dun. Dun Dun Dun. Dun Dun Dun. Dun Dun Dunnnnnn ), I find myself returning to 1991 cards with the same sense of dread. This time, I was reading a post by Steve at White Sox Cards. He was lamenting how he can always find White Sox needs from 1991 even though it was probably the peak of the overproduction era. As I read the post , I nodded in agreement. Steve purchased the entire 1991 Score Traded set because he needed some White Sox out of it. And I understood. I knew that I also needed most of the ...

I am always surprised by who is reading this blog. It's not that I don't have any confidence in what I write here, it's just that I wonder who besides card collectors could possibly find it interesting. A few days ago I received an email from a woman who merely wanted to comment on my reference to former player Steve Brye . I had stupidly mentioned that when we were kids, my brother made Brye the favorite player of his stuffed lion. Well, this woman found that amusing. She left a light-hearted email to tell me so. She also said that her husband is Brye's cousin. Of course, that makes me wonder if that bit of information I wrote will ever get back to Brye . In which case I will have gotten my brother back for every single time he got me in trouble with the parents. Anyway, I am going to feature some other viewer mail, namely card packages from viewers of my blog! Once again, I'm showing three packages at once, because I am at least a week behind on these things. A...

How often have you watched a game show and thought: "I should try to get on one of those shows. I wonder what you have to do?" If you're like me, the thought ended there. I've never even attempted to find out how to get on a particular game show, let alone participate, and then appear on television. But I don't feel unfulfilled as a wannabe game show contestant, and that's because there are CARD BLOGGING CONTESTS! Every week or so there's another contest and it's one of the best parts of checking out other people's blogs. Hey, I'm all for reading -- I make my living because there remains a handful of people out there who read -- but when you get a chance to WIN CARDS that kind of makes the reading part a little more worthwhile. It's about as close to being a game show contestant as I'm going to get anyway. I've been lucky enough to win a few prizes since Night Owl Cards began. In some contests I didn't even have to do anything ...

Steve, from one of the finest card blogs around, White Sox Cards , and I recently completed a team trade of Sox for Dodgers. He's already posted about the White Sox he received. Now it's my turn to post the Dodgers. The White Sox and the Dodgers have a bit of a history, being two of the older franchises in baseball. There's the bad: the White Sox still getting lots of use out of former Dodger prospect Paul Konerko. There's the good: that 1959 World Series when the Dodgers beat the White Sox for the championship. (I have interviewed a member of that '59 White Sox team, but as my aunt likes to say all the time, "We're not talking about that right now.") I've always liked the White Sox. Out of the AL playoff teams, they're the ones I wanted to make the Series. I much prefer them to that other Chicago franchise for several reasons. The White Sox and their fans just seem a bit more real than the Cubs and their cuddly sun-worshippers. Add the fact t...