Night Owl Cards

   This is the 6,000th post on Night Owl Cards. That really feels weird to type.   That is such a big number that I could barely find a corresponding baseball statistic to go along with it, which is what I like to do when I reach a round-number milestone on this blog.   I did find one -- career total bases. Just four players in major league history have reached 6,000 career total bases. Hank Aaron is the king of total bases with 6,856.   The others are Albert Pujols, Stan Musial and Willie Mays, in that order.   I couldn't find much more to say about that, so I dug out a favorite card of each player in my collection to go with the respective player's total base total.     1. HANK AARON, 6856 total bases   Naturally, I pulled out my 1956 copy. This is one of the '56 cards landed during the summer of 2020 that kind of let me know I could actually finish this thing.     2. ALBERT PUJOLS, 6211 total bases   This card amuses me beca...

    This is my 5,000th post on Night Owl Cards. I've been aware that this moment was coming for months, yet I'm not prepared at all. I've kind of run out of things to say on milestone posts. I'll always know when a milestone is near, I'm not one to forget stuff like that. But the risk of acknowledging them all is they start to lose some meaning.   Still, 5,000 is a lot, and like Nolan Ryan's 5,000-plus strikeouts, I don't know many others who have reached such a total when it comes to writing about sports cards on a blog. This is the only blog that I know that wrote as many (way more in fact). Perhaps there are others.   I've reached 5,000 because, as I've said many times before, I enjoy writing and I enjoy baseball cards. There is almost nothing to me that is more interesting or worthwhile than this. If that wasn't the case, I would've wrapped up the blog by now. In fact, I'd think you'd be a fool to throw something like this away. ...

    This is one of those milestone things that used to mean a lot more. Back in my first year or two of blogging, I'd note the milestones that passed and really celebrate them as if they were a big deal. And they really did seem like a big deal at the time: 300th post. Wooo! 400th post. Weee! 500th post. Well that was kind of lame . 900th post. You could tell I was already getting sick of coming up with milestone post ideas . But I still like celebrating milestones, no matter what form they take. Not only does it satisfy my compulsion to categorize with numbers, but a nice, big, round number is proof that you've been doing something for awhile -- and if it's worth keeping track of, then probably that thing you've been doing for awhile is enjoyable. So even though I don't flip out quite as much over blog milestones, I've reached yet another one and here I am mentioning it. I've surpassed 3 million views, you guys. Just once I'd like to witness the odomete...