Night Owl Cards

I admit that this countdown selection is a bit out there. But I am trying to be inclusive here, and just because this is a card set that was marketed regionally in the 1950s doesn't mean it doesn't deserve to be on the countdown. I don't have any Johnston Cookies Braves cards. The company, whose factory was right near Milwaukee County Stadium, issued cards of the Braves in 1953, '54 and '55. They were inserted in boxes of cookies, but you could also order the set through a mail-in offer. Obviously, all of this happened long before I was born. But here is the card back that caught my attention: I know it looks rather dull compared with the card backs that I have been showing recently of 1990s sets, but it's here because of its originality for the 1950s. The image that I found makes it virtually impossible to read the type, but what each card featured were vital statistics of the player, a biographical write-up, and statistics from the last two years, in...