Like many set collectors, I have almost perfect recollection of sets of the past. I know what they look like down to the tiniest detail. Even before the advent of the internet and the ability to call up any card from any year, I could lie in bed and drift off to sleep by picturing the images of each set from every year, in order. 1979? The colored ribbon stripped across the bottom. 1980? Pennant flags. Small one for the position and big one for the team name. 1981? Well, there were three card sets that year, but no problem. Topps had the ballcaps in the bottom left corner and the wild colored borders that didn't seem to correspond with any team colors. Fleer had the giant baseball in the bottom left and loads and loads of yellow. And Donruss had the yellow block lettering for the team name, and the tiny '81 in the top corner. It was almost like reciting the alphabet. Name a year and I knew the corresponding design. And I knew the year after that and the year after th...
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