Night Owl Cards

Sometimes it feels like I'm traveling on a different wave length than a lot of card bloggers. I guess that's what makes life interesting. An example: Almost two years ago now, the phenomenon of "wallet card" swept the nation ... er, the nation's card blogs. I got caught up in the hysteria, too, but then I realized "wallet card" wasn't doing what I wanted it to do. For many, "wallet card" was an opportunity to take their chosen wallet resident out on a tour and take photos of the card in various places. At least one blogger is still doing this. Then again, he lives in a place where there is a lot to see. But that's not what I wanted to get out of wallet card. Instead, I wanted to re-create the damage that I achieved as a child when I loved a card so much that I carried it around with me. Like this card. This is one of two Dodger cards from the 1975 set (the other was Steve Yeager) that I carried around with me for a per...

Hard-core team collectors, of which I am one, know all about duplicates. It is a necessary side-effect of collecting your team. The question is: what do you do with those duplicates? For me, most of the duplicate Dodgers go in the Big Box of Dupes. If I can't dedicate the cards to some other completion quest, a set, the night card binder, whatever, they're stashed in the BB of D. The dupes box comes in handy when I'm trading with a fellow Dodger fan. But otherwise, they sit and wait for me to come up with some genius plan, like making a table out of them. Other duplicates, as mentioned above, will go toward a set I am half-heartedly collecting, such as 2016 Heritage. And then there are the doubles that make it across the duplicate dividing line. Maybe you have such a line yourselves. For me, that line is 1977. Any Dodger duplicate from 1977 or earlier still gets featured in my Dodgers binders. Those duplicates are just too rare or fun to be stashed in a box, ...