Night Owl Cards

Thank goodness for things like birthdays and Twitter and players like Dave Stapleton. They help remind me what I've forgotten. My head is filled with nonsense about long-dismissed players like Stapleton, who turns 64 today and endured an incredible decline from his stunning rookie year in 1980 to his bitter final season in 1986. But that nonsense sometimes pushes other very valuable nonsense out of my brain. For example, almost four years ago I wrote a post about how there is one card each year in Topps flagship in which the card number corresponds with the year it was issued. And I showed each card for each year between 1952-2013. There was some mention about updating this post every year and I fully planned to do it. But the memory of that post disappeared out of my brain. There are lots of these updating posts that are waiting quietly for me to return to them but yet I still keep them waiting. Enter Dave Stapleton. I was hunting around on my blog for a card image o...