Night Owl Cards

A couple of things before I get to the mystery: 1. Time is running out to vote on the biggest improvement and the biggest bust in Score's illustrious baseball trading card history. You have a matter of hours to place your vote on the sidebar. It doesn't seem like people have much of an opinion on Score, but I don't want to leave anyone out. 2. I realize I am pokey on sending out packages again. All I have to do is look in the general direction of the card desk to feel the shame envelop me. Sorry, March is a hellfire mistress. I hope things will calm down in a couple of weeks. But it's that second point that I think is contributing to this mystery. I deal with a lot of collectors. People always sending me stuff or contacting me for trades, etc. I can barely keep pace, but I do try to be friendly about it. "Friendly," though, does not eliminate "forgetful." I received a package yesterday with no return address. There was nothing on the pac...

I received this fine card from Bud of First Day Issue . He is always thinking of me, and you can't do a better job of finding something I like than tracking down something with Ron Cey on it. The addition of Bill Russell is a bonus, as is bad-ass club member George Foster, even if the pairing of 1970s Dodgers and Reds is odd, since they were sworn enemies. After all, it was the Reds, Yankees and Linda Blair who taught me what true evil was. As for the top right corner of the card, I'll ignore my least favorite announcer (when Chris Berman is in the studio anyway). I'll put my thumb over Morgan's face when I'm showing off the card. But that's not the thing that is distressing me. The nagging question I have is this: how do I know that these bat scraps are from four different bats used individually by Cey , Russell, Foster and Morgan? I find a single swatch or a single bat sliver on a card believable. But four different bat slivers? Four different bat slivers f...