Night Owl Cards

I collected next to no cards in 1988. Hopelessly in love with both a girl and bar-hopping, cards were decidedly uncool in '88. No time and no desire. Rack packs of 1988 Score could have been hanging in an aisle in the drugstore I frequented almost every week. But I'll never know because I never paid attention. Chances are they were. As I've come to find out, there is an endless supply of 1988 Score. Still, I find it to be one of my favorite sets of the entire junk wax era, and I should finally be completing it very soon. I like it because it's colorful and the photos, for the most part, are interesting. It's got that cool Reggie Jackson subset, too. But I admire 1988 Score for the card BACKS. Color mug shot, team logo, yearly stats, vertical orientation. Sure, it has all that. But far and away the most admirable part of the entire set is the write-up on each card back. Look at that thing. That's like 250 words there. (the word "homers" is ...