So, hard to believe, the birthday was pretty great. I love cheese ravioli and meatballs and chocolate cake with chocolate/peanut butter ice cream. I can see why the day shows up once a year, we can't be eating like that all the time. The gifts were almost all related to my hobby, too, which does not happen a lot. For starters, I received this 2024 World Series program. I figured I was overdue for some sort of paper product recognizing the Dodgers' World Series title. I have the one Walker Buehler Topps Now card, but since Topps/Fanatics didn't bother to produce any other card Series retrospective other than that overpriced, ugly Topps Now set, I had to pivot to non-card items. The program is pretty slick and impressive. It better be at 15 bucks. I hadn't gotten a World Series program since 2017 when the Dodgers reached the World Series for the first time since 1988. I didn't bother to look for a program in 2018 or in 2020 (the 2020 one is pretty small)...
It's time for another birthday post. It's a milestone one this time. The kind that you don't even want to say out loud because it can't possibly be right and if someone hears you, they're going to throw a blanket over you and haul you off to the elderly farm. I shall distract myself with dinner out, gifts, cake, ice cream and this post. I have posted almost every birthday since starting this blog and have tried to tie the occasion to cards or baseball. But I'm all out of stuff. In fact, I thought about not posting this time. But I can at least update a couple of past birthday posts with more information. For instance, three years ago I posted about active players in the majors who share my birthday , focusing on a then-new discovery, Jarred Kelenic. Kelenic is still going, on a new team since last time, and still over a year younger than my daughter.😬 I also happen to have recent cards of three other active players who are ce...