Generous giveaway from Night Owl

I was fortunate to be one of 20 readers to get 250 of the 5,000 cards Night Owl gave away for his 5,000th post. Far too many cards to be shown here, but it was a lot of fun to go through a card package that was partly tailored to my interests, and partly a highly random mixing, which I always greatly enjoy going through. Here are some highlights.

Night Owl has very few failings as a baseball card fan and writer, but one of them is his strange inability to properly appreciate the Yankees. I have a feeling he was rather happy to find someone to take Yankees out of his sight. Here are some of my favorite cards he sent of Yankees of the past, mostly players from some championship teams.

There were lots of cards of players from the current Yankee squad. For so many years the Yankees have been pretty good, not great. This year they are playing by far the best of any Yankee team since they won the World Series in 2009. They win with hitting, they win with pitching, they have lots of blowouts, they win close games. Hopefully they can keep this kind of play going straight through October.

Naturally Night Owl sent some fun vintage, highlighted by a 1958 Clem Labine! He was one of the key members of the great Brooklyn Dodgers teams. That Ron Blomberg card is my first from the 1975 SSPC Yankees team set.

There were a LOT of fun random cards to go through. Here are a few that stuck out to me as being particularly fun.

He even snuck in a few non-baseball cards in the lot, highlighted by a card of guitar legend Joe Satriani, who grew up in Carle Place, Long Island.