Night Owl Cards

I came across this card the other day while reorganizing some Score cards. See if you can tell me what's wrong with it. If you aren't hindered by Mariners-Brewers blindness like me, you probably spotted it right away. But if you are, then it's been 25 years and you're just discovering this now. It's actually a relief to me that there are other people who get the Mariners and Brewers mixed up. I thought it was only me, thanks to the similar color schemes for each team over the years, the fact that they both share Seattle histories, and that Brewers players always end up playing for the Mariners and vice versa. This card is an error card. But it's an uncorrected error card (UER in your handy, archaic price guide), so it's not worth more than a few pennies. I discovered this error just as the weekly #CardChat on Twitter was discussing error cards last week. If you're not familiar with CardChat, it's a fun little Q&A thrown out to collecto...

Major League Baseball isn't any different from any money-making business. It's always looking for new ways to rake in the cash. Often that means turning to the marketing department and asking "what gimmick ya got?" But gimmicks have lousy stamina. Take the use of black uniforms for teams that had never before incorporated black into their color scheme. This is what the website Uniwatch defines as BFBS or "black for black's sake." The color choice seemed like a good idea at the time. Black became so popular for a period that it seemed like half of major league baseball was the Raiders. I grew tired of it quickly. The uniforms left me numb, then irritated, then so enraged that it's all I could think of for two innings as I mentally burned every black jersey in the team gift shop. They are ugly to me now. We've fallen so far from when Frank Thomas first started walking around in those things. I submit that the same can be said for interl...