Night Owl Cards

This is a particularly cool night card from 2000 Fleer Tradition Update. It commemorates the first time a catcher received the pitching victory in a game. According to the card back, Brent Mayne took the mound in the 12 th inning of the Rockies' game against the Braves on Aug. 21, 2000 because the Rockies had run out of pitchers. I double-checked with baseball-reference.com to make sure, because card backs have been known to tell a fib or two. The card back got it right -- except for the date. Small detail. The game happened on Aug. 22, not Aug. 21. So both the card back and the card front are wrong. Oops. Anyway, Mayne, who was Colorado's starting catcher that year but did not start in that game, came in for the top of the 12 th inning and pitched scoreless ball (he did allow a hit to Rafael Furcal , a walk and threw a wild pitch). He became the first position player to earn a victory since Rocky Colavito in 1968. Afterward, Mayne said he had never pitched in a game at an...

All right. I am absolutely certain that this card is a night card. There can be no dispute. We have the lights on. We have the dark sky. We have Jerald Clark bathed in illuminosity. We're batting 1.000. I bring this up for two reasons. First, two bloggers have sent me this particular card over the last few months. I do enjoy it when another blogger actually makes the effort to track down a night card, and there is no question that this is a beauty. The second reason I bring it up is because there seems to be some question as to whether the card below is a night card. Motherscratcher sent this card to me because he thought it was a night card. Two other people commented on the previous post that they thought it was a night card, too. I, on the other hand, am not so sure. I'm saying that it's not a night card, although there's not a lot of confidence behind that statement. The reason I say it's not is because the bank of lights is turned off. Also, the sky looks da...