Night Owl Cards

I'm busy working on research for a couple of different blog posts that you'll see in future weeks. So this is just a quick night card post that I need to get out of the way anyway. I'm coming up on featuring this Tom Bradley card on the 1971 Topps blog. It's a pretty great one in a lot of ways. But I've hesitated adding it to the night card binder because I'm not sure whether we're looking at night here or merely dusk. Normally I wouldn't care -- a bank of lights are on in the background, that's good enough for me -- but Bradley is up against some semi-stiff competition. How could that be, you're asking. How could I fellow with horned rim glasses, wearing a disguised Angels jersey, displaying the brightest blue airbrushed cap you've ever seen that just happens to match with his eyes, and the guts to sign his full name on the card, all featured on the 1971 Topps design for crying out loud, have competition? Plus this card is No. 5...

A little while ago, Jim, of the efficiently brief garveyceyrusselllopes blog, presented this card as part of his regular "team collector dilemma" series. His question was whether a team collector would consider this Ed Goodson card a Dodger card. This is one of those cards from the 1975/76 SSPC set. I've read that it was called "the pure card set," because all of the writing was on the card backs. Even though Ed Goodson is pictured here as a Giant, he is listed on the back as a Dodger, which was his current team at the time of this set's release. When I saw Jim's post , I was undecided about whether this was a Dodger card or not. And since I didn't have the card, I was a bit relieved that I didn't have to make a final decision. Well, guess who sent me the card? Jim wants me to make a decision. So, I've made one. It is definitely a Dodger card. Goodson is listed as a Dodger. Any other card that I have that lists a player as a current Dod...