Night Owl Cards

I have a love-hate relationship with the use of yellow on baseball cards. I realize that it is necessary. There's nothing brighter than yellow, so when you want to alert a card collector -- HEY! BUY THIS CARD! -- yellow helps. Oh, Yeah, it sure does help. But there are other times, some very obvious glaring times -- you know how much glare yellow creates -- when it's too much. There were other colors that could have been selected, other choices that would be a little less offensive, or at least something that could be turned down a notch. (FYI: I wrote about yellow on cards a couple years ago , mentioning some of these same ideas and even doing a countdown. You run out of ideas after 10 plus years). I find yellow not all that attractive given the choices. So when the 1959 Topps set selected yellow for many of the Dodgers cards ... ... yeah, it bothered me. There are so many fun colors in the 1959 set. Seafoam green and pink-house pink and sky blue and orangey oran...

Some of you won't see this post for awhile because you're watching Game 1 of the NBA Finals. I don't watch the NBA unless I have to (i.e.: work), so I have the luxury of being able to blog while abnormally tall people drop a basketball into a hoop. Because I'm somewhat unaware of the NBA, it slipped past me that both finalists enjoy wearing yellow in their uniforms. It was brought to my attention by UniWatch's Paul Lukas, who wrote a column for ESPN earlier today on how much yellow there is in the finals of both the NBA and the NHL. I happened to notice it while watching Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final on Monday. "Wow!" I thought, half cringing. "That's really too much yellow." Yellow just doesn't work for me. I like it in certain situations. Women in sun dresses, as a fast-food beacon, helping me find the mustard bottle, stuff like that. Heck, even my favorite baseball card of all-time is significantly yellow. But the color is ...