Night Owl Cards

I received a healthy stack of Orel Hershiser cards from Paul's Random Stuff recently. All of the cards were from one of those Star sets of the late '80s/early '90s. I know nothing about these things except what I've barely absorbed reading blogs. Near as I can tell, some company called itself "Star" and decided to produce some cards out of someone's basement. The set features select stars of the day. Each star has about 10 cards in the set. A different photo of that player appears on each card. If that's not confusing enough, there are gold and platinum versions of these cards. And there are promo cards, and rookie series, and the more I read through my Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards, the more perplexed I got (the opposite is supposed to happen). So I thought I'd just stop talking about something I don't know and show the cards. Gold: Some of the photos, I guess, aren't too bad. I sort of like this one: And here's the...