Night Owl Cards

  I have not bought any 2020 World Series commemorative cards in the two months since the Dodgers have won the Series.   I'm not above doing that. I still might do so. But I'm accustomed to waiting until the following year for recognition of the previous year's World Series and I haven't lost my patience. I can wait if I want. Heck, I'm still waiting for Topps to recognize the Dodgers' title in 1981.   So you won't see any of those commemorative cards on this list of the top 10 Dodgers cards of 2020.   You also won't see many special cards, no autographs, no relics. I acquired very few of those this year. In fact, as I mentioned in a previous post, I've accumulated fewer 2020 Dodgers cards than I have for any previous year since I've been writing the blog.   That doesn't mean there wasn't Dodgers greatness on cardboard this year. There was.   Some of it was even interesting. As an example, this card: The first thing I noticed about this c...

References to one of collecting's "bibles" have popped up on the social medias the last week or two.   That's nothing unusual, as revered as it is in the hobby, I expect homages to the Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book to continue long after I'm gone.   I first wrote about it in 2011 after finally receiving a copy. And I've leafed through it many times since, always delicately because something with so many images of cards from the '50s and '60s makes me nervous.   It now sits on my card desk in a place of honor where it will never likely leave, except when I'm picking it up to be amused by a snippet about Neil Chrisley or Eli Grba.  One of the recent online references was from a post on Cardboard Junkie . In showing off his copy of the book, he mentioned that he's known a few people who have collected every card that is shown in it.   I was impressed. And I immediately wondered how many cards pictured in the b...

     USPS-delivered packages to my home have been sporadic in the last week or two as has been the case through most of the country.   Even though various package-tracking tools listed my packages as arriving by certain dates last week, I received no mail on Wednesday and no mail again on Saturday. A foot-plus of snow did land on the abode Saturday so that may have something to do with it, but that's a rather swift drop from that neither-snow-rain-nor-gloom-of-night promise I've been hearing all my life.   Obviously, postal deliverers have legitimate reasons for being late this season, this year. But it does get frustrating when an anniversary gift you ordered a full month before Christmas arrives three days after Christmas.   However, I wasn't too upset because today, I got mail!!!   I was thrilled. The mailbox was stuffed, because obviously my packages had been living in whatever abandoned weigh station was their home since before Christmas day. Car...