Night Owl Cards

  I have barely acquired any cards this year. Adding the grand total of my three 2022 purchases it comes to around 36 bucks and $16 of that was that stupid 2021 Optic rack pack I bought that I should return because of false advertising that there were actual baseball cards inside.   Money just isn't there right now for cards, which is why I'm grateful for every envelope that comes to my door, from bloggers or just plain readers. I'm lucky in that I seldom have to trade to generate card flow. I do need to do that sometimes, but not often enough where I need to depend on something like TCDB's trading function.   Today I received a whale of a gift mail day -- from four different people. I'll show that off some other time, but right now I have a couple envelopes from two different readers. ... Well, it's actually four envelopes from two different readers. You see, each of them sent an envelope and then after a few days, each of them sent another one!   Am I seeing d...

  I need to stop making promises to myself with this series because I obviously am not keeping them. In my attempt to wrap this series up in the coming months I recently promised I would have another post in October (nope!), complete a rundown of the Hall of Famers for all the '80s Topps sets (didn't) and write a post on the Hall of Famers in the sets from 2007 to present (ha!). I haven't done any of those. What I do have is a regular old update post, adding a few more sets and updating the sets already featured with the new Hall of Famers. But at least this post has five new Hall of Famers to update and because of that a lot of sets have received significant boosts, including every single Topps set from the 1960s. In case you've been living under a rock -- or are one of those lucky people not on social media -- here are the new additions to the Hall: Gil Hodges, Jim Kaat, Minnie Minoso, Tony Oliva and David Ortiz. Buck O'Neil and Bud Fowler, too, but they didn'...

  I have been pursuing a collecting milestone in the most lazy way possible, and in perfect lazy fashion, I let someone else get me to that milestone. I mentioned a couple of months ago that I had come within one card of having signed cards for 200 different Dodgers players. Bob of the best bubble helped me to the doorstep of that achievement by getting me to 199. Well, Bob's at it again. In a recent envelope, he sent three cards signed by Dodgers. One of them was the Charlie Hough '79 Topps card. I have a couple of Hough-signed cards already, but getting one signed on a '70s cards makes me think of how glorious it would be to have every '70s Dodgers card signed, not that this will happen ever. But the other two signed cards were from players that I did not have in signed form in my collection until I opened the envelope. That means ...   🎉🎈🎇200!!! 💙💙💙   That is some kind of feat for someone who never actively seeks an autograph. Not only do I not stand in line ...