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Night Owl Cards Blog

17.09.2025

A less than thrilling start

Wow, not off to the greatest start for Year 18 with this blog. Posting is likely to be a bit sporadic the next couple weeks. Nothing unfor...

Night Owl Cards Blog

14.09.2025

Searching for information

I am clinging to at least four dying sources of information ... some would say "dead" in some cases. I work at a newspaper and still rea...

Night Owl Cards Blog

14.09.2025

At seventeen

This is Night Owl Cards at 17. On this date in 2008, I started a card blog when it was about the coolest thing you could do in the hobby...

Night Owl Cards Blog

13.09.2025

That nostalgic rush (is ending)

The main reason I have collected cards as an adult for the last 20 years is for that nostalgic rush. That's what I've been chasing all ...

Night Owl Cards Blog

10.09.2025

That was kind of delightful

Among the large cities in Upstate New York, Syracuse is the one that I drive through the most. But it's not a destination city like Buffa...

Night Owl Cards Blog

08.09.2025

C.A.: 1975 Topps Joe Rudi 2024 Heritage buyback

(I've experienced a lot of low points in my 50 years as a Dodgers fan but last night's game might have topped them all. I think I finally s...

Night Owl Cards Blog

07.09.2025

I intentionally avoid sets I like

I'm sure some set-collectors can relate this: I purposely avoid collecting certain sets that I like, even love. It's mostly a means to k...

Night Owl Cards Blog

05.09.2025

Take care of yourself, guys

I've written a few times over the last couple years about a collector I know. He was a co-worker. He didn't work in the same department b...

Night Owl Cards Blog

03.09.2025

Owe it all to the blog

It just doesn't seem possible that I'm still reaping the benefits of this blog, a means of communication and expression that is at least ...

Night Owl Cards Blog

02.09.2025

Work

It's another Labor Day spent at work for me. I tried to think of the last time I had Labor Day off and I eventually gave up. I know I was ...

Night Owl Cards Blog

02.09.2025

A collector's "gear"

Growing up a music fan, I never gave much thought to a musician's gear. My interest in music and musicians was solely in the songs and th...

Night Owl Cards Blog

02.09.2025

Just me and the robots out here

There's a certain amount of isolation built into being a blogger, or a writer in general. I don't know if that's exactly the right word b...

Night Owl Cards Blog

28.08.2025

I'm getting Wednesdays back

For the last year-plus, my Wednesday workload has been what used to be the job of 4-5 people. That meant that virtually my entire day wa...

Night Owl Cards Blog

26.08.2025

You're welcome, Immaculate Grid players

I hardly ever play Immaculate Grid anymore. During its early days -- about a couple of years ago now -- I played fairly frequently. I enj...

Night Owl Cards Blog

25.08.2025

Almost done redux

I wonder if former card bloggers ever consult their dormant blog for information? I am always looking through my blog for a card or factoi...

Night Owl Cards Blog

25.08.2025

Getting through August one card at a time

Here in the Northeast, August is still summer vacation. Hearing about people going back to school this week in the south or out west is di...

Night Owl Cards Blog

25.08.2025

Card room tour 2025

Five years ago I gave a photo tour of my then-new card room. The room made its debut in mid-2019 and by spring of 2020 it looked as I know...

Night Owl Cards Blog

25.08.2025

I can't keep up ... baseball isn't helping

This blog is full of laments about the increasingly fast-paced world and my inability to keep up. I look back on my moaning about this t...

Night Owl Cards Blog

25.08.2025

I'm cutting back but Topps isn't

Somehow, I've managed to land nearly 75 percent of the 2025 Topps flagship set. TCDB says I have 516 of the 700 cards. This is despite ...

Night Owl Cards Blog

25.08.2025

Silly cereal set

A number of years ago I received some cards cut off a cereal box from a set that I had never heard of prior to seeing the cards. I showe...

Night Owl Cards Blog

25.08.2025

This seems like something a left-hander would do

Even though Mason Fluharty has pitched in 40-plus games for the Blue Jays this season, I first discovered him at the start of the Dodgers'...

Night Owl Cards Blog

25.08.2025

My completed sets go international

For the first five years of this blog, there was nothing more mind-blowing to me than communicating and trading with collectors from aroun...

Night Owl Cards Blog

12.08.2025

It's taking over

I found out about a monthly card show in town just coming up on three years now, and already I'm wondering how soon it will be before ther...

Night Owl Cards Blog

10.08.2025

A sucker for easy trades

Trading cards takes a lot of time. Also, sometimes it takes a lot of work. Everyone collects differently and sometimes it's difficult t...

Night Owl Cards Blog

08.08.2025

The baseball-football overlap

I'm sure you can feel it coming, it's never actually left. Football is here. And it's trying to push baseball out of the way. This is ho...

Night Owl Cards Blog

08.08.2025

C.A.: 2011 Topps Nicktoons MLB Brandon Phillips/Zim

(Greetings on National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day. There are no chocolate chip cookies in the house, nor do I see one for me on the horizon t...

Night Owl Cards Blog

08.08.2025

Lou, are you ...

The most recent Beckett Vintage Collector arrived in my mailbox Monday and with it my latest article for the magazine. It's the 20th art...

Night Owl Cards Blog

03.08.2025

Two obsessive player-collection project updates

It's the summer traveling season. We're visiting or greeting visitors, yet the cards keep coming. It's sometimes difficult to focus. What ...

Night Owl Cards Blog

01.08.2025

The Penguin alone

My blog reaches around the world and I'm pretty proud of that, but really the most important area for it to reach, as far as my collecti...

Night Owl Cards Blog

30.07.2025

Memories are free (and sometimes cards are, too)

I picked up this card on Friday. Ryne Sandberg passed away Monday. I was not a kid when Sandberg was starring for the Cubs. I was a seni...

Night Owl Cards Blog

29.07.2025

Milestone stuff

It's time for another birthday post. It's a milestone one this time. The kind that you don't even want to say out loud because it can't ...

Night Owl Cards Blog

29.07.2025

Box after box after box

So, hard to believe, the birthday was pretty great. I love cheese ravioli and meatballs and chocolate cake with chocolate/peanut butter ...

Night Owl Cards Blog

29.07.2025

True blue card bloggers

A couple weeks ago, I noticed yet another downturn in card blogging, and I went through my blog reading list to determine how many card bl...

Night Owl Cards Blog

29.07.2025

C.A.: 1979 Warner Brothers Records Promo M

(I am in that in-between period where I've just come home from vacationing and the return to work is still a day away. It always feels weird...

Night Owl Cards Blog

29.07.2025

A thank you for the thank you

A couple of months ago I ran a Dodgers card giveaway in hopes that collectors would both relieve me of some of my many, many dupes and als...

Night Owl Cards Blog

29.07.2025

While he's digging, I'm deciphering

(*music fans, go to the end) The National is this coming next week and I know several collectors who are attending. Many of them attend ever...

Night Owl Cards Blog

29.07.2025

The most Hall of Famers, yearly update (2025)

Back in January, when we knew the five former players who were going to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame for 2025, I wrote a p...

Night Owl Cards Blog

16.07.2025

It hasn't been the 'midsummer classic' for a long time

Fifty years ago today, Major League Baseball played the All-Star Game in Milwaukee. The National League won, 6-3 (yay!). Bill Madlock and ...

Night Owl Cards Blog

15.07.2025

My addeled brain

I don't know how many card collectors can relate to this, but I'm writing about just one collector here. I pretty much wrapped up my sec...

Night Owl Cards Blog

13.07.2025

The heat is on

It hit 90 degrees today. I'm not someone who is bothered by the heat, but once it's 90 I take notice. It's not super rare around here -- I...

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Night Owl Cards Blog - Other Sports

A less than thrilling start

Searching for information

At seventeen

That nostalgic rush (is ending)

That was kind of delightful

C.A.: 1975 Topps Joe Rudi 2024 Heritage buyback

I intentionally avoid sets I like

Take care of yourself, guys

Owe it all to the blog

Work

A collector's "gear"

Just me and the robots out here

I'm getting Wednesdays back

You're welcome, Immaculate Grid players

Almost done redux

Getting through August one card at a time

Card room tour 2025

I can't keep up ... baseball isn't helping

I'm cutting back but Topps isn't

Silly cereal set

This seems like something a left-hander would do

My completed sets go international

It's taking over

A sucker for easy trades

The baseball-football overlap

C.A.: 2011 Topps Nicktoons MLB Brandon Phillips/Zim

Lou, are you ...

Two obsessive player-collection project updates

The Penguin alone

Memories are free (and sometimes cards are, too)

Milestone stuff

Box after box after box

True blue card bloggers

C.A.: 1979 Warner Brothers Records Promo M

A thank you for the thank you

While he's digging, I'm deciphering

The most Hall of Famers, yearly update (2025)

It hasn't been the 'midsummer classic' for a long time

My addeled brain

The heat is on

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