Night Owl Cards

During my carefree days before I began this blog, but immediately after I discovered that people were blogging about baseball cards, there was only one card blog that I knew and read. At this time two years ago, any free evening included a visit to The Baseball Card Blog . I don't know if it was the first card blog -- I'm not going to get into that garbage -- but it was the first one for me, and for a lot of people. Ben Henry shared my fascination for cards and, unlike some other veteran card blogs of the time, his interests were my interests. He liked cards from the '70s, he liked vintage cards, he liked dissecting them in brutally precise fashion, and he was amusing in the process. During that summer of 2008, when I wasn't focused on 200 other blogs and writing two blogs myself, The Baseball Card Blog continued a long-running countdown of the worst-to-best sets during what some would call the golden era of wax, 1948-1979. I found that countdown very interesting a...