Night Owl Cards

(The Dodgers got thumped by the Pirates on Opening Day. They gave up the most runs in an opener since 1984, when they lost to the Cardinals 11-7. The Dodgers finished below .500 in '84. So is this an omen? ... Nah. It's Cardboard Appreciation! This is the 59th in a series): When I was looking for vertical signatures for the previous post, I came across this card of Bill Nahorodny, yet another player with a name I've never learned to pronounce. I noticed something on the card that I had never noticed before. He dotted the "I" in his name with a baseball. Now, I'm not an autograph connoisseur, and I don't make a practice of staring at signatures. But I had never seen that with a major league signature before. My first reaction was that it was a simpler time back in 1980. Players were less obsessed with wealth and investments and entitlement. They weren't overpaid jerks. They actually enjoyed baseball and were so thrilled to be ball players that...