Night Owl Cards

I know I said that I would do something special on the occasion of the 100th night card, but you're going to have to wait until the next night card. That's because this is really only the 99th night card that I have featured here that I own. One of the cards, I still do not own , and that's a requirement on this here particular blog. In order for me to do something special next time, I need to get a certain two night cards posted. This is one of them. I absolutely love this card. This is one of those night cards in which everything the player is wearing appears to glow in the dark. The cap, the jersey, the warm-up jacket under the jersey, the shirt under the warm-up jacket. I wish Norris was wearing the green glove that he was noted for featuring on the mound. That would have made it the best night card of all-time. Anyway, Mike Norris came along during a time when there weren't a lot of African-American starting pitchers in baseball, although that's alwa...

I cannot possibly begin a post about 1976 Topps cards without opening with the debut of the famed Astros rainbow uniforms on cardboard. This was the first year that these unis appeared on cards. What a glorious mess, eh? All I can think of is "A Christmas Story" when Ralphie comes down in the bunny outfit and his father looks at him and says, "Are you happy in that?" That's what I want to ask the Astros of that era, "were you happy in that?" Hey, I was around in the '70s, but you can't blame that on me. I was just a kid. I've already scolded my mom for some of the get-ups she put me in during the '70s. Anyway, those 'Stros are part of a monster box of cards I received Thursday from Eric of the 1987 Donruss blog . It's a new blog with thoughtful posts on his favorite card set (personally, I prefer '84 or '85 Donruss). Eric's also a Dodger fan (that's right, we're multiplying ). Eric recently bought some '...