Night Owl Cards

  I started Night Owl Cards 13 years ago today and have been churning out copy since. Much has changed about blogging and collecting since I've started and while my blog has undergone some changes, they've been on a much smaller scale. I myself am pretty much the same. Here, let me show you a paragraph about myself that I wrote on the one-year anniversary of this blog: "In many ways, this blog is my personality. I try not to get too deep with it -- this is about baseball, after all -- and by nature I am easygoing and have a sense of humor. But I also have a strong sense of right and wrong, can be direct and abrupt at times, and have always been introspective. It sounds strange, but I am a quiet, thoughtful, humorous guy, who can get loud once in a great while." That's still me, working amid a changed hobby world. Things have gotten bigger for me, particularly in the last year. I've been guesting on a few podcasts (unrelated to the blog, but related to the Tomm...

I've been writing this blog for almost 20 months. According to child development experts, your average 20-month-old is just beginning to be able to run. He or she probably can climb stairs by himself/herself, too. So it sounds like my little blog is finally getting its legs! But one thing the blog knew how to do from the beginning was trade. I completed my first blog trade about one month after beginning Night Owl Cards, and I haven't stopped since. I don't know how many trades I've completed, but it's definitely hit triple figures. There are plenty of other bloggers who trade more often, who have more cards, who have better cards, who spend more cash on cards. But I highly doubt that there is one blogger who enjoys the card collecting hobby or cards more than I do. I like the hobby so much that I want everyone else to enjoy it. And the only way I know to get others to enjoy it, besides writing about it, is by trading cards and sharing the ...