Night Owl Cards

I think it's pretty clear that I love periodicals. I reference them quite a bit, from my odes to the Baseball Card Magazines of the past, to references to old Sports Illustrated issues. It's not a mistake that I ended up in newspapers -- well, except for the fact that where I really wanted to end up is in magazines. In my lifetime I have had subscriptions to Baseball Digest, Time, Life, Newsweek, Reader's Digest, Rolling Stone, Ranger Rick, Inside Sports, and probably about a dozen defunct periodicals that I can't remember. I have subscribed to and canceled Sports Illustrated four or five separate times. I have a deep and abiding respect for The National, a long-gone-yet-briefly-brilliant daily tabloid that was a sports reader's paradise found at the corner gas station during 1990 and 1991. But there is no magazine that brought me more excitement each and every issue like "Baseball" magazine, known initially as "Baseball Quarterly." Ba...