Night Owl Cards

  My daughter was good to me for Father's Day and sent a blaster of 2023 Heritage as a gift (just as I requested!) I enjoyed opening it on a very relaxing day and I even pulled a Dodger card, which have been amazingly scarce in my Heritage openings this year (yet 12 Rangers and 11 Pirates total). This rookie card of the slumping James Outman gets me down to a just a couple more non-SP Dodgers in my team-set quest (Trayce Thompson and the Betts-Buxton card). Between this card and a few Heritage Dodgers that I received from Johnny's Trading Spot recently, I've noticed that the Dodger cards in 2023 Heritage are pretty damn dull. This feeling is a holdover from last year's Heritage and the Heritage before that. Virtually nothing exciting from the Dodgers, just a lot of bat-on-the-shoulder poses. This is particularly unfortunate this year because there were some pretty good action shots for the Dodgers in '74 Topps with Ron Cey, Claude Osteen and Joe Ferguson (I'm a

The 2020 Heritage team set for the Dodgers has been a milestone moment in terms of cars in the background on baseball cards. If there was a timeline for chronicling cars on cards -- or should I say "vehicles on cards," very few drive a mere car these days -- it would include the 1964 Philadelphia Jim Brown card, the 1973 Topps Luis Alvarado card, another card I'll show in just a moment, and several others. The latest stop on the timeline would be the Dodgers in 2020 Heritage.   Those are just a few examples. Most of the Dodgers Heritage cards this year feature a vehicle in the background if you look close enough. It has to be the most vehicle-infiltrated baseball team set ever. Even the two short-printed cards that I don't own yet -- Walker Buehler and A.J. Pollock -- each show cars. I love this and I've documented the reasons why a few times . I am a recovered Matchbox cars addict and vehicles were my obsession as a kid before baseball came al