Night Owl Cards

  I hope you know that I'm never going to stop writing about '70s and '80s cards on here. To me, that's the greatest era for cards and the most appealing cards. It's the most appealing time period, too, for ... well, just about everything. Then we hit the '90s and pretended everything was the same but knew it wasn't and now we're in the 21st century and nobody knows what a radio is anymore. The beauty of cards is I can collect the same period over and over without anyone getting on me for living in the past (well, some people still might, but that would be rude of them).   I once worried that I was running out of cards to collect from this time but I now know that's absolutely not true and won't be for as long as I'm dragging myself around.   One of the best sources for '70s and '80s cards continues to be Dime Box Nick , which is a bit strange as I'm pretty sure he never set foot in either decade. He certainly understands the glor...

    This was meant to be a companion piece to the Joy Of A Team Set post I did on the 1972 Topps Pirates. In fact, I thought of this post first, and I probably should have posted this one first. But life has a way of forcing you into next-best scenarios. I was thinking -- as I often do -- of MLB's issue with competition. Maybe the new playoff system will take care of this -- although that's hardly the best way to address the problem -- but the same teams keep showing up in the playoffs year after year. It's always the Dodgers (yes, I'm OK with that), Yankees, Astros, Red Sox, Braves, Cardinals, Giants and Rays. There are cameos by the Mets, Brewers, Phillies, Twins, Indians/Guardians and White Sox here or there. But mostly you can forecast who is going to be in contention early in the season. Some of the teams that I didn't mention have not been repeated playoff participants in years, even decades. A lot of those unnamed teams were very good and constant postseason...