Night Owl Cards

  Normally I disregard such things, but yesterday I was plowing through updating some of those insane back variations for my 1989 Donruss Dodgers.   You know the kind -- "this one has a period but just one asterisk, this one has a period but two asterisks, and this one has two asterisks, but no period!" Fascinating stuff.   I decided to strain my eyes for the sake of checking boxes because I was sent several of the variations from reader and noted collector Bill K. (He's been mentioned a couple times recently on Johnny's Trading Spot). He sent more than just those -- a lot more that you'll see in a couple days. If someone is going to go through the effort of sending those, I'll see it to its conclusion.   So I was squinting away wondering the whole time, "who in the world figured out the differences and why does anyone care?" I'll never understand that. But while I was updating, for some reason, the 1970s children's TV special "Free To B...

I wasn't going to do this, but another post idea fell through. So I'm following the crowd ... ick. The Chronicles of Fuji asks : "What's a cheap (under $5), cool card you feel every collector should add to their collection?" Well, this is a question that gets my indignities all in a knot. A card every collector SHOULD add? Something a collector SHOULD do? I collect because nobody is telling me I SHOULD do anything! And someone is saying, "calm down, it's just a question. We're having a little fun here." Yeah, OK, it's just that I've had a collector or two actually tell me that I should have a certain card or I wasn't a "real collector," and that really ticked me off. But I'm letting it go ... here I am, letting things go ... deep breaths ... pleasant thoughts ... hey, look at that palm tree! ... So, anyway, a card that I really like that others would enjoy? My answer to that on Fuji's comments was th...