Night Owl Cards

Last month, I joined Johnny's Trading Spot's edition of the Big Fun Game despite being extraordinarily busy with little time to pay mind to baseball card drafts and such. My fear in joining was that I'd be so distracted that I'd end up with basketball cards or Garbage Pail Kids cards, something that I look at the way my dog looks at me when I tell him he can't have the grape that fell on the floor because it might kill him . I think Johnny feared that's exactly what had happened when my pick yielded a bunch of 1975 SSPC cards of the Mets and Yankees. My dislike for the Yankees goes way back and is well-known. My dislike for the Mets is much milder but spikes wildly anytime they face the Dodgers in the postseason. However, the 1970s is the great neutralizer, especially the mid-1970s, especially 1975, the very first year I started buying packs of cards. These are cards and players straight from the first time that I started making an association between ...