Night Owl Cards

    I've been updating my Dodgers binders again. It's lasted me all spring and through the summer. Not a coincidence it coincides with baseball season because I like to update binders while I'm watching a game. It keeps me busy through commercials (if I'm watching network/cable TV) and calms me through irritating announcers (Karl Ravetch, Chip Caray). It especially helps while watching Dodgers games as I almost can't conceive of viewing a Dodger game now without something else to do -- thank you Dave Roberts pitching changes. It's kind of like my blanket during a horror movie.   I'm nearing the end of this update, closing in on this year's Dodgers cards, and I've known all along that the Topps flagship count for the Dodgers is pretty large this year.   How large? Well, seven years ago I wrote a post in which I totaled the size of the Dodgers team set for each year of Topps flagship since 1952.  It ranged from a low of 15 to a high of 37. The 2024 set...

I have yet to complete the Dodgers team set for 2017 Topps flagship. While others bought a couple of boxes when Series 2 first came out and finished off their team sets that very day, I'm still missing the Kenta Maeda card. I'm not stressing about it. Even if I don't buy any more Series 2 -- and I don't plan to -- I know it'll arrive at my abode relatively soon. Besides, there is one pleasant side effect to me struggling to complete the team set: It means the team set -- at least for the Dodgers -- is more complete this year. In fact, it's been more complete the last two years. Each of the last two years, there have been 28 base Dodgers over Series 1 and Series 2. That is more base cards for the Dodgers in a flagship set in almost 25 years. Not since 1993 when there were 29 Dodgers. I am one of those team collectors that likes to see as many players from my favorite team represented in the flagship set as possible. It reminds me of trying to collect...