Night Owl Cards

I'm getting oh so close to finishing series 1 of 2015 Topps, and, yes, I hear the people who completed it in the first week of release snickering. Three more people sent 2015 Topps, all in close proximity, just like the last time . So let's see if I can get the same card sent to me in all three packages once again. The first cards I have came from Jeff at One Man's Junk (Wax) . Let's get a look at them assembled in puzzle-like form: Can I say that I'm still not tired of the design? Wonderful set. I wasn't able to keep the horizontal cards horizontal and fit them on my tiny scanner, so that's why some are tilted on their side. Jeff also sent a couple non-2015 Topps: Yes. Still collecting 2014 Topps base-set Dodgers in April 2015. Thank you very much, inserts and parallels. OK, next up is Pat from Hot Corner Cards . Lots of horizontal cards there. But the only duplicate from the previous group of cards is Braun. Freeman, though,...

I don't know about you, but for me No vember has been a weird month, both on the blog and elsewhere. For one, readership always goes down in November. Always. It's been that way since I first figured out you could calculate such things. I don't know why that is. The weather is almost always crap in November, you'd think people would focus on more sedentary activities. Second, a lot of people either stop talking about or paying attention to baseball cards in November, which might be the answer to the paragraph above. I'm a baseball guy, so I'll never stop talking about baseball cards just because the season's over. But I guess some people do. Third, I'm broke in November. Well, I'm broke a lot of other months out of the year these days, but no money in November has been a constant for the last six years. Finally, it gets odd for people in November. I don't know if people sense they're getting to the end of the year and they assess t...

Since I am just a few cards away from finishing off the 1975 Topps minis and the 1972 Topps set must wait until I have cash to throw at high numbers, I need a set-collecting project that I can pursue at a leisurely pace, that won't strain the budget, and that fellow collectors are willing/able to send. That's why I'm chasing down the 1981 Donruss set. This is endlessly amusing to my 15-year-old self, because when the first Donruss set came out that year, it was as if I was buying homemade cards. I can hear myself snorting all the way from 1981. By '81, I had collected Topps and basically nothing but Topps for seven years. Topps was as professional as you could be when it came to card collecting. They knew what they were doing. And their product -- for its time -- was high quality. A large set with adequate photographs, complete stats and an attractive design. No one could do what they did. So when Donruss and Fleer offered sets in 1981, we opened our very fir...

... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... (There's always got to be one). Many thanks to ARPSmith's Sports Obsession , One Man's Junk (Wax) and The Writer's Journey for supplying these 1982 Topps wants so I can pointlessly illustrate what my favorite song was in 1982. I am getting closer to having all of the Topps sets from my childhood completed. And then I truly WILL be the maker of rules. (Damn youtube and their copyright rules took away my videos. Linking for those who don't know).