Night Owl Cards

  Last week Diamond Jesters celebrated his milestone birthday with a week's worth of posts featuring cards with a number that matches his birth date. He invited others to do so as a blog bat-around.   I love a good blog bat-around. But I had already written a post with this theme two years ago on my birthday. So I weighed not participating at all with having to come up with a post of original material and ... sequel it is!   Here are 10 more cards with 716 on the back. I guess these are the second-best, though it would be tough to tell as it's not a number where Topps or anybody else was stashing their stars. Just like the last time I did this, I'll mention whether I have the card or not and if I don't, I'll add whether I'd like to own it.     2006 Topps Update Barry Bonds HR History, 716th HR   Do I have this card? No. I may have had it at one point, when I was including the massive HR History insert set in my quest to have everything related to 2006 Top...

  It's another birthday today.   I've tried to post on my birthday every year of this blog, seems like the thing to do when you're writing a blog about yourself.   So I've started to run out of 716 topics, except I haven't posted about 716 cards.   I have always enjoyed that I was born on 7-16 in Buffalo, whose area code is 716. I don't suppose that is very unusual. Just think of all the people in NYC born on Feb. 12. But I think it's a nice tidbit.   Cards with 716 as a number don't come around too much. Until the late 1970s, it was fairly uncommon to produce a set with as many as 716 cards.   But I found 10 that are interesting enough for me. Let's check them out.     1991 Upper Deck Julio Machado Do I have this card? Yes. I've always liked this one. Machado looks more like a construction worker, joining his work buddies on the side of the street for a well-deserved break.   2002 Topps Ichiro Suzuki MVP  Do I have this card? Yes This i...