Night Owl Cards

  I've been trying to think of the last time there was a card show where I live. It's been quite a few years and my memory is not good at picking out dates from that long ago. Back when I first moved into town, in 1994, there were regular shows at the state office building downtown. I went to a couple of those. This was just before I got out of the hobby and by then there could have been shows every week, I never would have known, because I didn't care. When I returned to collecting about 10 years later, I remember going to a show at the same place. But then those shows stopped and I don't remember another one until a couple years later at the community college. I recall going there and buying one card. I think it was the 1971 Topps Ernie Banks, to replace the one I had just traded away. I think that show was about 2005 or 2006. There hasn't been a show around here ever since, thus my hour-plus journeys to find people selling cards in a communal setting. So, a coupl...

This is my one-and-only Yankee 1956 card. Up until Saturday, I had none. I bought it at a card show yesterday, mostly because there were a couple of loud Yankee fans hovering behind me and I thought, "I'll be damned if they take every Yankee card. This one's mine ." It's difficult tracking down Yankees where I live. Like I said during my first '56 Topps post, the cards that my brothers and I received from my dad's friend were devoid of Yankees, most likely because my dad's friend was a Yankee fan. So, having one in my possession is a milestone and worth charting on the blog. I've always appreciated Bauer, because he was one of those seemingly rare folks in New York who don't go out of their way to draw attention to themselves. He just played. And he did it well. He did a lot of things well. I mean this was a guy who could say he was both a "World Series Hero" and a "World War II Hero." Damn. ... Modern players su...