Night Owl Cards

Back in June I received a varied and wonderful package from Eric and in it were a few old Baseball Digests. I've pulled out those magazines because I have a reading holiday coming up (any vacation is the only chance I get to actually read magazines and books anymore), and I want to absorb these magazines from my childhood as well as those way, way before that. When I showed those magazines the first time, I announced that they had given me an idea for a post and that you would see it in the future. I normally never announce that kind of thing unless the idea is really good and that I'm pretty sure I won't forget it. Well, guess what? I forgot it. And I didn't write it down either. So all I'm left with is showing the innards of this here Baseball Digest from September, 1955. This is what I'll be reading in a few weeks. So let's have a sneak peek: There are very few pictures in a Baseball Digest from the 1950s, and, of course, the few that exi...

I've mentioned before that my folks have been known to collect. I'm sure that's why I've collected cards for most of my life. I simply inherited the gene. Although my dad had baseball cards when he was a kid (I believe his mom actually did throw them away), neither he nor my mom know anything about them now. But they know I like baseball and that I like to collect, so every once in awhile they'll throw something baseball-ish my way. "Maybe you'll like it, maybe you won't" they sort of say with a shrug of their shoulders. This I thought was fairly cool, and directly from my dad's stash. He was a Ted Williams fan growing up and he kept some Saturday Evening Posts from 1954 that he bought back then. The SEP published a three-part series of an interview with Williams, titled "This Is My Last Year". I'm sure this caused quite a stir. The articles appeared over three weeks in April, right at the beginning of the season. I hav...