Night Owl Cards

I am a simple guy when it comes to numbers. I do like them. But too many make my brain hurt. It's been that way since I sat in math class. I did well. I even did well when the algebra and calculus books came out. But I couldn't wait for it to go away forever. No, the best thing for me when it comes to numbers is to make it simple and make it amuse me. For me, there's no better example than 1981 Fleer. If you collected Fleer that crazy summer of '81 when there were THREE -- that's right, THREE -- sets to chase (it's sad that people younger than age 35 have no idea how freaky that was), you probably remember one of the main components of the card backs. Fleer featured the card number in the left-hand corner and the player's career average or career earned-run average in the right-hand corner. It was kind of nifty, but also confusing. I was forever transposing the average with the card number and I'd think Mitchell Page's card number w...

Well, the best glasses in the history of MY baseball cards, anyway. Often I receive a comment on a previous post that inspires yet another post. That's a pretty standard blogger phenomenon, I think. And that's what happened when Patricia of Dinged Corners left the following comment on my post about the 1981 Topps Kent Tekulve card: "KT wore the best glasses in the history of baseball cards." Wait, is that a challenge? Game on! I'm a sucker for "the best" and "the worst." I love lists and all of that ranking nonsense. Did KT really wear the best glasses in the history of baseball cards? I went right to my collection to find out. What I came up with was the best 25 glasses cards. Unfortunately, I'm lacking a ton of cards from the '60s, so there are no horned-rim beauties on this list. One day, after I win the lottery, I'll buy up every set from the '60s and assemble every card of horned-rim wearers as if they are in the stands a...