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Night Owl Cards Blog

22.05.2025

C.A.: 1988 Fleer Baseball All-Stars Orel Hershiser

("I've never met a beer I didn't drink." RIP, George Wendt, one of many reasons I was doing the same thing every Thursday at 9 p.m. in the '...

Night Owl Cards Blog

20.05.2025

The right box

For the first 8-9 years of this blog, I'd say until 2017, I could play a certain card aisle game and everyone reading -- certainly most ca...

Night Owl Cards Blog

18.05.2025

When the firsts were mostly fun

One of the most frustrating things to me is that no matter how much you prepare, research, take advice, it feels like there's no moving f...

Night Owl Cards Blog

16.05.2025

Something's got to give

This is my most recent Dodger binder -- binder No. 37 -- sitting there on the floor waiting for its forever home on one of two four-tiered...

Night Owl Cards Blog

13.05.2025

Ignoring history

I was made aware of a major change in Topps Heritage by Cards On Cards over on the House of Cardboard Discord the other day. I don't pa...

Night Owl Cards Blog

11.05.2025

Night activity

Twice a year I run through my doubles for that particular year's card products and pull any night cards that could find a spot in my night...

Night Owl Cards Blog

09.05.2025

Freebies and almost freebies

Like most folks in this country, I am not made of money. While going for my daily walks or driving around town, I look at the shiny gargantu...

Night Owl Cards Blog

08.05.2025

I might watch

You may have heard that there is a new documentary out on artist Dick Perez, who is well-known for drawing the Diamond King cards for Do...

Night Owl Cards Blog

06.05.2025

More Heritage, more observations

As expected, I received some more 2025 Heritage in the mail at the end of last week. First, Rod of Padrographs sent me a bunch of his e...

Night Owl Cards Blog

05.05.2025

Joy of a team set, chapter 29 (Pilots! Part 2!)

This very fine card, acquired last week, met a pair of 1969 Topps "goals" for me, not that I officially established them as such. First,...

Night Owl Cards Blog

03.05.2025

The (possible) end of me collecting football cards

How about this? I'm posting about completing a fairly large set for the second time this week! It just happened this way. Don't expect a...

Night Owl Cards Blog

02.05.2025

We just disagree

When I first started reading card blogs, I didn't know there were so many kinds of collectors. Growing up in the 1970s, there was basi...

Night Owl Cards Blog

29.04.2025

Should I go for three?

So I grabbed a blaster of 2025 Heritage when I was at Dave and Adam's last week. I know they're not called "blasters" anymore but it's sti...

Night Owl Cards Blog

28.04.2025

Legends for less

It's almost nothing to own cards of retired players, so-called "legends cards," these days. Thanks to the MLB-Topps agreement, legends are...

Night Owl Cards Blog

26.04.2025

What life would be like if I lived in civilization

I spent a couple of days away to visit folks in the Buffalo area. I've mentioned many times how much I love that city. Not only is it fu...

Night Owl Cards Blog

23.04.2025

All the graded cards I own

Often over the years I've read blog posts or, more likely, those on social media that invite a discussion on graded cards. My standard r...

Night Owl Cards Blog

22.04.2025

The other half

I stopped at the monthly card show Saturday. It was the second straight weekend card show I had attended. This would have been crazy talk ...

Night Owl Cards Blog

19.04.2025

Gearing up

In one day, I will be on a long-awaited vacation. It's my first vacation since Thanksgiving -- and, yes, I know that's a cue for someo...

Night Owl Cards Blog

18.04.2025

My first Dodger card continued ... after a long break

Eight years ago now, I wrote a post called " My first Dodger card " in which I listed the first Dodger card I pulled each year I have co...

Night Owl Cards Blog

15.04.2025

Show without a net

Yesterday I attended the big show at the state fairgrounds that goes off twice a year. The last time I was there was in September and I o...

Night Owl Cards Blog

14.04.2025

Just posting a little nonsense

It was kind of busy this weekend. I went down for a card show today and it takes quite a bit of driving -- this is the bigger one, instead...

Night Owl Cards Blog

12.04.2025

C.A.: 1941 Play Ball "Dolph" Camilli

(Happy National Pet Day. There was a point a couple years ago when I thought there'd never be another pet in the house. I even wrote about i...

Night Owl Cards Blog

10.04.2025

Prioritizing Heritage

Yesterday I impulsively ordered one of those "megaboxes" for 2025 Heritage from Fanatics. Just a few hours later I received an email from ...

Night Owl Cards Blog

08.04.2025

Birthdate cards, Part 2

Last week Diamond Jesters celebrated his milestone birthday with a week's worth of posts featuring cards with a number that matches his b...

Night Owl Cards Blog

07.04.2025

My hit of the year so far came from ... Japan?

A pretty crappy month-plus-one-more-week turned around for me in the last couple days, fortunately. This is all relative, of course, wit...

Night Owl Cards Blog

05.04.2025

Where do I draw the line?

I've written many times that I discard most of my rules for condition for a card from the 1950s or earlier. If I have a shot at getting a ca...

Night Owl Cards Blog

03.04.2025

Packed a punch with me anyway

My first sportlots order of the year is finally here. There always seems to be one straggler card I'm waiting for two weeks after everythi...

Night Owl Cards Blog

01.04.2025

The underlying reason

From the beginning, I was not impressed. Trying to collect three sets was a lot. This was the new world in 1981, after collecting nothin...

Night Owl Cards Blog

31.03.2025

Another parallel from the '70s

Parallels are mostly considered a card phenomenon of the last 35 years, but they existed in the '80s, '70s and earlier. I've written abo...

Night Owl Cards Blog

29.03.2025

Dodger fan to Dodger fan

A couple of housekeeping things before I get to the topic tonight. First, I've figured out the issues I've had with commenting on some oth...

Night Owl Cards Blog

27.03.2025

Play ball! (2025)

When I was a young, baseball-watching fool, I'd wonder about my dad. He was a fan, but he seemed so casual about it. He'd watch maybe an i...

Night Owl Cards Blog

26.03.2025

One card remaining

As a set-collector I have written many times about needing the final card to complete a set. It's almost an ongoing issue for our collec...

Night Owl Cards Blog

25.03.2025

Joy of a subset: A thrilling start

In order to keep this series in my head and not forget about it for a year, I'm running another version of "Joy of a Subset" three months ...

Night Owl Cards Blog

24.03.2025

C.A.: 1973 Topps Jim Breazeale

(I took a couple of days off from the blog, The first day was because of work and the second was an extra bit of time to get past the negati...

Night Owl Cards Blog

21.03.2025

What I've been doing the last month

All right, a quick post to get the bad taste of the last post out of my head. Perhaps you've been wondering what I've been doing the las...

Night Owl Cards Blog

20.03.2025

Trying to cross the border

I enjoyed seeing the Dodgers go 2-for-2 over in Japan the last couple of days. Not that I was able to see it live. Anything happening betw...

Night Owl Cards Blog

18.03.2025

Back in good graces

Catching up with the post the other day in which I pleaded to folks to take some of my Dodgers dupes -- your requests have been noted. I...

Night Owl Cards Blog

17.03.2025

From a short stop to a center fielder

I'll say one thing for March, it's never not interesting. I probably go on way too much about this month, but it keeps coming up with ne...

Night Owl Cards Blog

15.03.2025

Diamonds in the rough

I know it seems like I've settled on a schedule of posting every other day. But that's just March forcing me into that pattern. It's nothing...

Night Owl Cards Blog

13.03.2025

Collectors are 'free to be you and me'

Normally I disregard such things, but yesterday I was plowing through updating some of those insane back variations for my 1989 Donruss Do...

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Night Owl Cards Blog - Other Sports

C.A.: 1988 Fleer Baseball All-Stars Orel Hershiser

The right box

When the firsts were mostly fun

Something's got to give

Ignoring history

Night activity

Freebies and almost freebies

I might watch

More Heritage, more observations

Joy of a team set, chapter 29 (Pilots! Part 2!)

The (possible) end of me collecting football cards

We just disagree

Should I go for three?

Legends for less

What life would be like if I lived in civilization

All the graded cards I own

The other half

Gearing up

My first Dodger card continued ... after a long break

Show without a net

Just posting a little nonsense

C.A.: 1941 Play Ball "Dolph" Camilli

Prioritizing Heritage

Birthdate cards, Part 2

My hit of the year so far came from ... Japan?

Where do I draw the line?

Packed a punch with me anyway

The underlying reason

Another parallel from the '70s

Dodger fan to Dodger fan

Play ball! (2025)

One card remaining

Joy of a subset: A thrilling start

C.A.: 1973 Topps Jim Breazeale

What I've been doing the last month

Trying to cross the border

Back in good graces

From a short stop to a center fielder

Diamonds in the rough

Collectors are 'free to be you and me'

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