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...