Night Owl Cards

Now that the 2016 card season is in full swing, I have noticed that we have returned to title cards. By "title cards" I mean cards that have a title -- duh. This one here is titled "Hollywood Production." I hold a special interest in title cards because writing "titles" or "headlines" is part of my job. We are forever trying to come up with something snappy in the sports newspaper world, whether it's a headline or a kicker or some sort of graphic element. It's not easy. It takes creativity and wit and there are a lot of days when I do not feel creative or witty. So sometimes I just spit something out that isn't offensive and take comfort in the fact that a newspaper appears every day and no one is going to remember whatever I mailed in that particular edition. But baseball card makers do not have that luxury. Baseball cards are keepsakes for many people and they hold on to those things like the dickens. And they look at them ov...