I like to think that I do quite a bit of baseball card research on this blog that not a lot of other bloggers or collectors do. It's kind of my thing -- I like the research, I like finding out and I can spend weeks/months on a project without getting bored. In fact, I like that research a lot of times can be leisurely. No deadlines, just announce it when you're done. But once in awhile, that can come back to bite me. Last month, the SABR Baseball Cards bluesky account wondered who had appeared the most in Topps' Traded sets in the 1980s. I immediately took that as marching orders to find out who had the most cards in 1980s Traded sets. I have done something like this many times for the blog, especially back in the old Twitter days. Well, unbeknownst to me, someone else was doing the same thing. And he finished his research before me and published it almost 20 days before I did. He got the whole thing done in nine days! I was beaten to the...
My goodness, we're just starting right up with this school thing aren't we? For decades I could count on high school football starting before any other school sport and always after Labor Day. But games are afoot -- looks at calendar -- tomorrow -- and other sports that kindly waited for football to get going are now opening at the same time, if not earlier. It's a free-for-all. How does that affect you? It doesn't, except the owl is too busy for just about every prospective post on my "to blog" list. Instead I have another edition of The Awesome Night Card Binder page review, plus some stuff tacked on the end. When I last did an Awesome Night Card Binder post, I left off at page 32. I've got eight more pages to show, and many of those are pretty empty. I need to consult the "night card" tag on TCDB like immediately after I post this to fill some of these puppies up. Here is page 33: Page 33 Pretty solid page with only one opening. ...