Night Owl Cards

  Twelve days ago I wrote a post about my thoughts on the 2024 Heritage minis after receiving a bunch of the cards from Johnny's Trading Spot. I said that I didn't plan to collect the set. Even though it's a tribute to my most favorite set of all-time, the 1975 Topps mini test set, I didn't feel enthusiasm for it, mostly because trying to collect the main Heritage set was tough enough and I didn't want to repeat the exact same exacting task. Well, sometimes when you have written a popular blog for a long time, you don't get to do what you had planned. Sometimes your reputation precedes you. I am known for loving the 1975 set and the mini set, therefore it follows for many that I should love the 2024 Heritage set and the mini set. Who cares what I wrote!   So two days after that post , I received the following from reader Grant:   A day after receiving that, I received the following from former blogger Greg/grogg:   And the day after THAT, I received the followin...

  It's taken me a little time to get to this package arrival, mostly because it's a lot to go over. That happens sometimes with the sends from Johnny's Trading Spot -- there's so much stuff and a lot of it is not the usual stuff, so some time has to go into the corresponding blog post. For example, this: This is way cool. It's a season highlights record of the 1959 Dodgers' season, their second year in Los Angeles and a World Series championship team.   The record is a collection of highlights with each of the moments narrated as they happen by Vin Scully. Ira Cook does the narrating between highlights. Listening to Scully is always a treat but it's even more interesting here because he's so young and his voice is so different. Yet all of the great descriptions that he was known for are still there and it's amazing he had that kind of command of the language way back then. The record is in terrific shape, not a single skip or pop. But I knew I'd...