Night Owl Cards

The older the night card, the better it gets. The more oddball the night card, the better it gets. So what we have here is the best kind of night card. An old oddball night card. I have a few oddball night cards, but I don't think I have an oddball night card this old. It arrived from Kevin of Orioles Card "O" the Day . I like this card not only because it's a Post card from 1961 that you had to cut off of a box, and not only because the glowing bank of lights appear to be burning the backside of Billy Klaus' head, but because of the last sentence on the card. "During the off-season he works in a bowling alley." That is fantastic. Can you imagine walking into a bowling alley, going up to the counter, telling the man that you wear a size 11 and then J.J. Hardy goes and gets them for you? What a wonderful world that must have been. Klaus was no slouch. Sure, by this point he was a part-time player and on his way to the Senators for the 1961 ...