Night Owl Cards

I was out of town for a few days last week on vacation. When I got back, I was pretty busy, but that's never stopped me from posting before. This time, it stopped me. I just didn't feel like tending to the blog, or the hobby really. There are trade packages collecting dust, cards people sent me collecting dust, binders collecting dust ... and some half-hearted posts to tie it all together. But don't worry. I'm not going to start drawing ponies. I just wanted to see what it was like to ignore collecting for a few days. It felt good. A relief. My brain kept trying to turn post ideas over and and over in its head until it realized it didn't have to do that. "Phew," it said. We've decided -- the brain and I -- that we're going to do it again. Soon. But I'll always be back. Even if it's just a trade post. (*Ahem*). These are cards from Spiegel at Nomo's Sushi Platter . I can always count on him for a hard-target search of the wa...

I'm positive that Dodgers collectors have come across this before and maybe someone even wrote about this a long time ago, but I have always wondered something about the 1988 World Series champion team. There were 10 players on that team with a last name that started with an H. Was that a record for a World Series team, in terms of the most players with a last name starting with the same letter? Now, if I was researching this for the newspaper or, say, actually getting paid to write what I write here, I would spend some time looking it up. But you're already getting this writing gold for free, so someone else can do the heavy lifting. I'll satisfy my curiosity some day when I have the time. So who were those 10 players on the Dodgers that year? There was Orel Hershiser (1) , of course, the hero of the 1988 season. When Hershiser first came up, he was known as that guy with the wacky name. 1988 erased that bit of silliness. The sem -regular third baseman for the Dodgers t...