Night Owl Cards

  Hey, guys! I've joined Trading Card Database!   I know, you never thought you'd see the day. I was the same way.   I wasn't eager to add another card thing in my life, especially not one that involved more filing of my collection as well as interacting with even more people on the interwebs.   The fact that certain collectors were pushing it like Amway members didn't help. Nor did the memory of other online card database systems disappearing forever.   But I decided to join anyway. Ever since my desktop computer died a couple of months ago, and my ancient spreadsheet that inventoried my collection along with it, I haven't had a good way to keep tabs on my entire collection.   I do keep track of certain key totals on the blog. I know the total number of cards I have and I know which players are represented the most in my collection. I'm good with knowing the amount of cards I have for maybe the top 200 or so guys.   But if you were to ask me "how many...

  I haven't completed, nor attempted to complete, a Stadium Club set since I finished the 2015 set.   Although nothing since has inspired me enough to try to complete it, I do still like Stadium Club and I do try to buy some of it just to get my fix. I've done that for six years now ... well, five years because I never saw 2020 SC in stores. So it's been five years of a sample here and a sample there. It's what passes for Club-hopping for me these days. Mostly what I want these days is simply to complete the Dodgers team set. I've done that now for all of the most recent series of Stadium Club, from 2014 to, as of last week, 2021. A few days ago, I received the last two Dodgers I needed to finish the base set. Cody Bellinger and Corey Seager. (Sorry for the crooked and light photos. Without my trusty scanner, I've discovered I have zero patience for photographing cards, especially glossy ones).   I exchanged some Stadium Club cards with regular trade partner, Jo...

  I've been admiring this Clayton Kershaw Stadium Club card ever since it arrived in the mail. It captures the wonderful moment of Kershaw finally getting his hands on the Commissioner's Trophy after years of trying. It's an incredibly heartwarming moment for Dodgers fans captured on cardboard. But it's not a cardboard moment reserved only for followers of the Dodgers in 2021. This trophy moment has been captured on Stadium Club cards just about every year since SC returned to the collecting scene in 2014. It's actually become a trophy tradition.   OK, so it's a tradition that can be a bit pesky to collect. The World Series trophy shows up on a short-printed variation image of Max Scherzer in 2020 Stadium Club.   I couldn't find a trophy picture in 2019 SC for the 2018 Red Sox's title so let's move on to the 2018 Stadium Club set.   Ugh. There it is. That's a regular base card in 2018 Stadium Club. Get ready for a lot of Dodger Stadium boos in th...

  The National Sports Collectors Convention has just ended and I wasn't there again. I am in approximately the 4,705th day of this blog and I still have never been to The National.   If I lived in the greater Chicago or Cleveland area or in New Jersey, I probably would have attended one by now. But since I do not, here is a rather bold statement: It's not worth it. I don't really need it.   Yeah, I know, "it's the experience." It would be cool to see all those cards I can't afford on display, and it'd be cool to see some sports celebrities on the premises, and it would be nice to talk cards in person. But those things aren't necessary to my collecting experience. I'm not much of a people person, or a traveler, nor do I like crowds. From where I sit, I would have to spend a lot of money to spend a lot of money if I were to go. I don't need that.   Besides, The National came to my door on July 19th.   If you know me, then you know that's ...