Night Owl Cards

I know it seems like I've settled on a schedule of posting every other day. But that's just March forcing me into that pattern. It's nothing planned. But you'll probably have to put up with it for at least a couple more weeks.   I'm finally getting to the other big send of cards I received over the last couple of months. This showed up from reader Bill K. about two weeks ago and I've been combing through it ever since. Here is an idea of what I pulled out of the box:   Those are four thousand-count boxes and they were all pretty much jammed full. The vast majority of it was Dodgers with a few "guys who used to be Dodgers" and an early '90s Buffalo Bills set added.   Bill said he's been cleaning out/pairing down his inventory, which if the boxes are indication was filled with cards from the early-to-mid 1980s to today. As you might have guessed, I had a lot of these cards already. I mean A LOT. Perhaps you've heard I collect Dodgers.   So mu...

I received a nice stack of oddball packs from Fuji that arrived the day after Christmas. Even though most of the packs came out during the late '80s/early '90s, it was all stuff I have never opened. Oddball packs were not on my radar during that time. Fuji also sent me a note with a thought on when I might open these: Happy Holidays to you, too, Fuji. I'm not sure whether he meant "snow day" as in those days that school kids and teachers enjoy while the rest of us clear off a foot of snow and trudge to work, or just days in which there is heavy snow. But either way, there is no way I can save unopened packs for a day of bad weather, no matter how frequently it happens around here. Unopened packs must be opened. Period. ASAP. And I have opened them. All of them. If it makes you feel any better, it actually is snowing right now. I'm going to reveal the contents of these packs in order, ranking them from the packs I was least interested in (thi...