Night Owl Cards

I have determined that it is almost impossible to rank the all-star cards from 1975-81 -- what I call the "Golden Age of All-Star Cards" -- with any kind of objectivity. I'm really trying, because objectivity has been pounded into my head as a valuable thing to possess. But I basically threw up my hands after a few minutes of the whole business . I can't do it. Once you slap that all-star star or badge or banner on a card, it immediately becomes special. How can I eliminate any of the cards from the countdown if all of them are special? But press on I must. Because I do it for you. I give and give and give ... Anyway. The point is there are a lot of cards that you probably think should be in this Top 20 countdown, that I think should probably be in this Top 20 countdown, that aren't in the countdown. For example the 1975 Topps Pete Rose card, a card that I looked at as a tiny cardboard god when I was a kid, is not in the countdown. I don't even...

(Happy "Marooned Without a Compass Day"! Yup, that's what we're celebrating today. Getting marooned. You were expecting something else? Nope. Sorry. That's all. Now get out there and exercise your right to get lost without a compass! It's your duty as an American citizen! Time for Cardboard Appreciation. This is the 164th in a series): Every Halloween I think I'm going to be clever. I am going to find some card in my collection that will sum up Halloween in all of its ghoulish splendor. But Halloween comes and goes and I never find that card. I end up either ignoring the holiday on the blog or making some feeble stab at it and then apologizing for it. Little did I know that I've had the perfect Halloween card in my collection the whole time. It's this card of Dave Kingman. A spookier baseball card you will not find. The haunted faces in the stands would keep even your most hardened 6-year-old up at night. Then add that fact that the card...