Night Owl Cards

  The first thing I scoped out before my trip to Cooperstown were the card shops and souvenir stores. I'm assuming card shops were around in Cooperstown when I was there as a kid. But there probably wasn't the quantity, and if there was, my family wasn't there to shop. I discovered card shops during my trip there around 1991, don't remember the year exactly. I do recall discovering team-set bags in some store that visit and gleefully completing my 1989 and 1990 Score Dodgers sets in one shot. Ever since, card shops have become almost the star feature in visits to the Hall of Fame and the influx of cards in Hall of Fame exhibits is a certain sign of the popularity of card collecting since the 1980s. I was eager to see what I could find now that I was fully back into the hobby with much more control of my cash. However, I've never been much of a shopper. I go immediately into targeting mode, and when I find what I want, it's going to take a lot to pull me out of t...