Night Owl Cards

Look back on my blog six or seven years ago and you'll see a couple of posts wondering what the point is of Panini cards.   The cards contained no team logos nor words on the uniforms. The designs were primitive, ugly even. The photos lacked imagination and looked the same from one to the next. I berated Panini for robbing collectors of their money. I look back on those Panini cards in my collection and they still suck. And I still have some of the same feelings about Panini's baseball cards. The inability to show MLB logos creates boring, unappealing cards. Panini's card backs remain unreadable and useless. Yet, Panini's baseball sets continue to this day and remain popular in some collector circles. What's more is I am more accepting of those cards in my collection. I also seem to get more Panini cards from other collectors than I did a few years ago. I came up with a few reasons why the change: 1. Panini continues to be the only "other" option: Ever sin...

I received an email a little while ago from Scott of Sports Cards Ate My Brain . He said he had a bunch of 2015 Stadium Club off my wants that he was going to send. "Cool," I said. I like that set a lot. It's about time I got close to finishing it. Scott didn't lie. He did have a lot of Stadium Club off my wants. Here they are: Still very cool. But, wait, that's not all of it. OK, there we go. Thanks to that, I'm less than 10 cards away from the complete set. Time to stop buying SC packs for the one card I need and get the rest online. But Scott didn't stop with the Stadium Club. He also sent a bunch of 2015 Series 2 needs: And a bunch of 2015 Update needs: This is how I was able to complete the Series 2 set at the card show the other day, and how I was able to come within one of completing the Update set. But that wasn't even half of what Scott sent. In a totally unexpected development, I saw oodles of other want...