Night Owl Cards

Heh, that post title will draw in the readers! You can tell how quickly I got over 2020 Topps. The last two posts have been about a 95-year-old author and checklists. But no apologies, let's move forward. Or, um, backward: These are the checklists of my youth. Ugly little things, aren't they? Like most collectors from this time period, I wasn't exactly thrilled to pull these out of a pack. But I don't remember audibly uttering "awww, a checklist." There were 10-to-15 cards in a pack. Not every one was going to be a winner. And, besides, every card had a number on the back. You need every one to complete the set. Still, I'm not advocating for these to return to card sets. We actually do still have them in sets. They look like this now: The fronts of the cards are terribly random and usually don't have any sort of connection to the rest of the set. But there's that checklist if you want to go nuts with your favorite writin...