Night Owl Cards

  This kind of post gives me the warm fuzzies, as it's the kind of post that I, and lots of other bloggers, did all the time a dozen years ago. In other words, find something quirky on an appropriate holiday and run with it. So, you know, on St. Patrick's Day, post green cards! Feel free to drink green beer while you do it. It makes it more fun. Blogging is supposed to be fun! I've done the green-card posting thing on this day before. But I haven't done it in a long time, eight years in fact. So to make it up to you, I found the best green cards I could of players named "Green." Yes, next level stuff. I'm sure I've done something like this before, but it was probably just for Shawn Green, because I have a lot of his cards and he's got a lot of green cards. But how about some equal time for those other Greens? You know, like Pumpsie Green. Pumpsie actually has an early green parallel card as his 1962 Topps card is one of the green-tint variations....

It would have been nice if I could have nabbed all the Dodgers emerald/rain forest parallels by St. Patrick's Day and shown them here. But I don't believe in buying full sets during the current collecting season. That leaves me at the mercy of what I pull and what my connections pull. So far we've pulled just short of half: The Matt Kemp greenie is on its way, too, to get me to eight away from completion (but with Series 2 and Update on the way, too ... yup, I think these parallels are going to be shown again next St. Patrick's Day). One thing I've noticed with these cards is how easily they ding. I've pulled 2 or 3 out of the pack where the foily stuff is already pulling away from the corners. That's a little discouraging. They still are very attractive cards and appropriate today. Enjoy the festivities. Even if you insist on eating cabbage. And keep on collecting. The pot of gold is out there somewhere.