Night Owl Cards

   Car problems again, guys. Same car, too. This is the third time I've had my vehicle in the shop this year and the timing, while never good, sucks for the hobby side of things.   This weekend I was facing the exhausting-but-fun prospect of card shows on back-to-back days. But now the Sunday show is out because I don't have a vehicle to drive that distance. That leaves the local show, which I appreciate -- especially in times like this -- but it's not as good, not nearly.   To illustrate, I have some cards that I received from Jeff of Cardboard Catastrophes . I can safely say that I will find none of these cards at the show a couple miles away this weekend. In fact, all of these are from my want lists -- my blog want lists, which may or may not be accurate as we will soon see.         First, three 1970 Kellogg's cards. All three of these were needs, well, still are needs. The cracks mean they stay on the want list. I was going to compare this Bil...

  Well, I get up at seven, yeah And I go to work at nine I got no time for livin' Yes, I'm workin' all the time       It seems to me I could live my life A lot better than I think I am I guess that's why they call me They call me the workin' man       They call me the workin' man I guess that's what I am     'Cause I get home at five o'clock And I take myself out an ice cold beer Always seem to be wonderin' Why there's nothin' goin' down here       It seems to me I could live my life A lot better than I think I am I guess that's why they call me The workin' man       Well, they call me the workin' man I guess that's what I am        Well, they call me the workin' man I guess that's what I am   (*Alex Lifeson 2-plus minute guitar solo*)         Well, I get up at seven, yeah And I'll go to work at nine I got no time for livin' Yes, I'm workin' all the time   ...

   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. ...