Night Owl Cards

This post was originally going to be called "stuff I discovered on the internet," but I figured that would leave too much to the imagination. Before the internet came along, I discovered cards and card sets mostly through advertisements in the Sporting News or Baseball Digest, or through hobby catalogs that came to my house, like TCMA or Fritsch Cards. Later, I subscribed to Baseball Cards Magazine and found new-to-me sets in articles in that magazine. But I missed so much through those methods. Outside of what was selling in wax or cello packs at the drug or grocery store, that was all I knew. It wasn't until years and years later, when I ended up online like everyone else, that I discovered how much that I had missed. Once I became aware of card blogs, the door was open wider than ever. There were so many sets -- so many sets and cards that often had been issued right under my nose -- that I never knew existed. For example: I had no idea there were so many box sets fro...

You may have noticed that the "Big Fun Game," is all the rage on the blogs. When one game ends, another seems to begin almost immediately. As usual, I can barely keep up, so I enter what I can and hope for the best. If you're stashing secret BFG contests at the end of a post about the Minnesota Twins manager, I'm probably going to miss it. Out of the string of the four recent Big Fun Games, I've been a part of two. That's just the right speed for me. The BFGs take a fair amount of attention and the BFG needs to learn that it has to get in line behind last-minute work bombshells, dog puke and the overwhelming desire for sleep, just to name a few. Still, I entered another one recently because I landed a Carl Yastrzemski rookie in the last one. I may be overworked, but I refuse to totally ignore the words "big" and "fun". This one was called the "The Lucky 13," organized by Stealing Home at All Trade Bait All The Time . I was...

All right, you guys know how to put me in my place. If you're not pointing out errors in my copy or lecturing me in the comments (let's hope that never happens again), you're topping me in Christmas spirit. I was pretty happy that I had knocked down the last of my Christmas gifts for loved ones almost a full two weeks before the big holiday. But in order to do that, I put any card packages on hold until after the 25th. I often do that because I simply don't have the time. But other people have figured out how to do it. Oh, have they ever. Because for like the third or fourth year in a row, my desk is buried in Christmas cheer card packages. There are so many that my usual painstaking ritual of securing a single post for each package isn't going to fly. At the rate the cards are coming in, I'll catch up by Opening Day. So I'm going to show a bunch of them (but not all) here now. Sorry to lump everyone together, but at the very least readers will get ...

Father's Day is coming up and I am not one of those dads who you throw a tie or wooden duck at and hope he goes away. I know what I want and there is no shortage of options for you to choose from either. I expect it to be that way when I'm long into retirement, too. I will always want something. Just ask. There's nothing more infuriating than when you ask someone what they might want for an upcoming birthday or holiday and they say, "oh, I don't need anything." I didn't ask you what you NEED. I asked you what you WANT. Everybody wants something. Now tell me. Don't be dopey. So, yeah, I want stuff and I'm happy to broadcast it during gift-giving season. But apparently I am still difficult to buy for. Even though my want list is vast and I am 100 percent certain that there are hundreds upon thousands of cards that I want that aren't even listed there, people say I'm tricky when it comes to finding cards for me. In fact, that was m...

I realize I have been running more than my share of "look what I got" posts recently. But it's the giving-and-receiving season and people are giving and receiving. A LOT. I'm receiving card packages like it's 2009 again. The poor old card desk can't keep up with the two-packages-a-day rate, and I'm scrambling to make it presentable before company arrives. So that's why I'm doing what I'm doing. But besides that, it's the giving and receiving season! It's the thing to do, everyone! You think anyone wants to read about how many cards I found of players with bad teeth three days from Christmas? I don't. I sure as hell don't have time for the research. So here we are at a package from All Trade Bait All The Time . Oscar doesn't really feature all trade bait all the time on his blog. It's mostly Dodgers he received, games he saw and beer he drank. But, I'm not showing any night owls on cards on my blog either. It...