Night Owl Cards

I used one of my daughter's favorite words in the post title, kind of to celebrate that she's back to her goofy self after her bout with the flu. She will often talk about words she likes. She likes the sounds they make. "Intriguing," is one. So is "information." She has a whole list of them. Completely random words that roll off her tongue. "Intriguing" also describes the card packages that have arrived here recently. Intriguingly, none of these packages are connected to trades. In fact, most of them are "gifts." And because of their similar nature, I thought I'd throw them all together to share the intrigue with everyone. The first card is the Ryan Howard card that leads off the post. Chris from Nachos Grande read that I needed the card for the Allen & Ginter set and shipped it off to me. Howard will always be cool to me even if he did struggle periodically in the World Series. (My daughter told me that she heard Yankees suppo...

I'm a simple guy. It doesn't take much to make me happy. Just one card. One, single, solitary card. One, single, solitary card that can help me obtain many more cards. Fortunately, my wife knows this, and I am the super-pleased owner of a Target gift card received this Valentine's Day. It will go toward some cards of my choosing this week. It's funny how a single card can make everything right. Here are a couple of other examples: I received this card in a one-for-one trade with Sooz at A Cardboard Problem : I'm quite happy to have this very simple Upper Deck Timeline Clayton Kershaw card to add to my modest Kershaw collection. I think I am even more pleased that I was able to find a Derek Jeter card that Sooz needed. Player collectors kind of intimidate me. Their collections are so specific, and they have so many of that particular player that it's hard to track down something they could use. So I feel like I have accomplished something. And it's always n...