Night Owl Cards

We're all familiar with Topps' methods of dealing with cards of players who were traded during the offseason. Back in the '50s, the pictures were paintings and they would simply repaint the cap on the picture. During the '60s, they would get a shot of the player without his cap and crop the photo tight so you couldn't see the player's old uniform. During the '70s, Topps constantly featured players staring up into the sky, as if they had just spotted a spaceship (is that what I think it is?), so their cap logo wouldn't show. And of course, there was airbrushing. Topps airbrushed the caps on seemingly half of the 1969 set after baseball expanded by four teams. During the '70s and '80s, Topps attempted to draw the new team logo onto the players' caps with some spectacularly horrid results . I often wondered if Topps employees hung those card photos on their refrigerator doors at home because the logos looked like children drew them. (Che...