Night Owl Cards

This year seems to be the year of "send a flat-rate box to night owl". I don't want to sound like I'm complaining because all of those flat-rate boxes contain cards. Also, in some of the cases (not all) I asked for them. But night owl's eyes (you've seen an owl's eyes, right?) are bigger than his card space and even more importantly, they are bigger than the amount of time it takes to process cards coming in at that rate. I mean look at this: Who has time for this? I received this box of goodies from Chris at The Collector as prize winnings for participating in his Sports Cities Tour series, which was quite the captivating collection of posts. Among the prize possibilities was a selection of Renata Galasso Greats from the late '70s -- just about nothing interests me more that is not already in my collection. I was about to add that to my "haves" when Fuji swooped in at the last second and nabbed it. Oh, well, So what'...

I'm not Irish. I don't know many Irish sayings and don't really like Irish food. But I did date an Irish girl in college. She had a very Irish look, a very Irish name and a very Irish family. We did very Irish things together (I mean drinking beer. What did you think I meant? Picking four-leaf clovers?). That is who I think of every St. Patrick's Day. A little of her must have worn off on me, because today I can't help but celebrate the day with a glass of ale and a post on green baseball cards! The ale will have to come after work. But the post arrives right now! I thought I'd give a little history lesson on the use of green in baseball cards. This isn't an all-inclusive study because I have neither the collection nor the time. But there are a lot a pictures here, so get ready. OK, green has been a basic color choice for cards since the beginning. You can't think of baseball without picturing green grass, so the two go together. In the...