Night Owl Cards

  I continue to add my card inventory to the Trading Card Database site. Nothing quite underlines the fact you have too many cards like this process. I'm probably a little more than halfway through, 60 percent perhaps, and there's still so much more to cover. It leaves a lot of time for thinking as you're checking box after TCDB box. And one of the things that I was thinking about yesterday is how not every team collector's experience is the same. This is not a sudden realization, for anyone. I've long known that a person who collects Dodgers or Yankees or Red Sox is not going to have the same collecting experience as someone who collects Brewers or Diamondbacks. This is not 1979 when Topps was the only game in town and there was basically one set to chase and the teams received pretty much the same allotment of cards. Since the '90s, and probably with boxed sets before that, team distribution has been all out of whack. Some teams get a lot of cards, some get ve...