Night Owl Cards

The older the night card, the better it gets. The more oddball the night card, the better it gets. So what we have here is the best kind of night card. An old oddball night card. I have a few oddball night cards, but I don't think I have an oddball night card this old. It arrived from Kevin of Orioles Card "O" the Day . I like this card not only because it's a Post card from 1961 that you had to cut off of a box, and not only because the glowing bank of lights appear to be burning the backside of Billy Klaus' head, but because of the last sentence on the card. "During the off-season he works in a bowling alley." That is fantastic. Can you imagine walking into a bowling alley, going up to the counter, telling the man that you wear a size 11 and then J.J. Hardy goes and gets them for you? What a wonderful world that must have been. Klaus was no slouch. Sure, by this point he was a part-time player and on his way to the Senators for the 1961 ...

It's 8:46 in the morning and I can't sleep. I know many of you are at work right now, and somehow that makes me feel better. But I still can't sleep, what with all the heartbreak, responsibility and last night's sugar fit still coursing through my system. I proceeded to log onto the Serious Email Account  -- I don't know why -- and realized there were bill people upset at me for inadvertently ignoring them. After explaining that I really wanted to be their friend, I am now definitely not sleeping anytime soon. So, I figured another 1972 Topps post might calm me down a little and eventually send me back into nighty nite time. It's better than warm milk! Especially since the thought of drinking warm milk makes me gag. I recently received a handful of '72 cards off the want list from Kevin of Orioles Card O' The Day , Robert of $30 a Week Habit , and Andy of the Baseball-Reference.com blog . I really enjoy the '72 set, but I've been ignoring ...