Night Owl Cards

  My team supply of 2023 Archives came in a couple of weeks ago. It's always a relief to knock out those team wants for a product you don't want to buy anymore.   I'm sure you've seen every one of these by now, so I put them in a group picture so I won't drag things out.   Until getting the full set, I had just the Outman, Muncy and Miller. Muncy has shown up like four times at my house already. You can always tell what is either extra-printed or who collectors have no interest in. This year's Archives gives me the face scrunchies like it always has. This year it's the 1965s where there is too much space above the player in the photo. It doesn't happen often enough where I think "there's got to be a weird legal reason for this"/"Topps is playing games so we think there's a weird legal reason for this," but it comes up enough to take me out of enjoying the '65 design. But my issue with this set has been established, let...

  Now that the 2022 Heritage Clayton Kershaw card has been secured, I can update a post series that hasn't been visited in just over three years. But, first, a brief diatribe on not being able to obtain the Heritage Kershaw card until there was barely a week left in 2022. Kershaw's card was stashed in the Heritage High Numbers series, which isn't released until the fall, or in 2022's case, just before the start of winter. This is ridiculous, even though I fully understand Topps' reason why. I have known Heritage High Numbers since its beginning as a place where new players show up or players who have changed teams. Kershaw is neither a new player nor, thank goodness, has he changed teams. But, in an effort to entice people to purchase High Numbers, the last couple years Topps has placed veteran star players into High Numbers to make it more attractive. In 2021, Walker Buehler didn't show up until High Numbers. This coming year, Heritage should be recognizing the...