Night Owl Cards

  A lot of collectors are into really old cards. The older the better. There are pre-war collectors and tobacco card enthusiasts. I see several of them on Twitter almost every day, showing off their latest, all very impressive. But outside of marveling at how ancient they are, those cards don't do much for me. I'm not into collecting 120-year-old cards. I just can't relate to it. I won't kick cards like that out of the house, obviously, but over the years it's been one consistent theme in my collecting habits. I don't have many really old cards or think about obtaining others. There are so many cards, more recent stuff, that I want more. For example, my favorite thing to do is pick up cards that were around when I was a kid. I've been doing that for the last 20 years or so, probably longer. People say there weren't that many cards in the 1970s, what with the Topps monopoly. I beg to differ. Because I'm still trying to get cards from that time and I d...