Night Owl Cards

    When I wrote that article for Beckett Baseball magazine about my Dodgers collection -- wow, it's been three years already -- I ended it by saying I would continue to collect cards of my favorite team "on the way to 25,000" total Dodgers. Well, I'm moving in on 30,000 now. The counter on the sidebar says 29,469 so I think after a few more months I'll hit 30K. No plans for it to be anything special. In fact I like the idea of it being some insanely random card. I have a lot of people to thank for accumulating such a total and three of the biggest contributors to my team collection all recently sent me cards! It's not really such a coincidence, they're three of the few bloggers sending cards in the mail to other bloggers. I don't know what happened to everyone else, wasn't fun enough I guess? But thank goodness they're still doing it.   First up is a blogger who is probably an even bigger Dodger fan than me -- he still has more Dodgers than m...

  It's taken me a little time to get to this package arrival, mostly because it's a lot to go over. That happens sometimes with the sends from Johnny's Trading Spot -- there's so much stuff and a lot of it is not the usual stuff, so some time has to go into the corresponding blog post. For example, this: This is way cool. It's a season highlights record of the 1959 Dodgers' season, their second year in Los Angeles and a World Series championship team.   The record is a collection of highlights with each of the moments narrated as they happen by Vin Scully. Ira Cook does the narrating between highlights. Listening to Scully is always a treat but it's even more interesting here because he's so young and his voice is so different. Yet all of the great descriptions that he was known for are still there and it's amazing he had that kind of command of the language way back then. The record is in terrific shape, not a single skip or pop. But I knew I'd...