Night Owl Cards

When deciding to do a series of these Baseball Card magazine posts, I thought that I would start to get repetitious and proceed to become bored by them. But I'm still finding stuff that I think is interesting. Whether you think it's interesting ... well, never mind what you think. I decided to show the Ron Kittle issue next just because it's an issue that seems to reflect the rookie card fervor that hovered over the hobby at the time (and still does in some quarters, sadly). The last issue that I showed, from the spring of 1982, was also heavy on rookie card topics, but this one is even more so. I'll start with the cover and remembering how proud I was that I owned the 1983 Fleer Ron Kittle card, which Kittle himself is displaying. I didn't land many of the hot rookies of the time, but I did have the Kittle. I didn't think it would make me rich -- I didn't think in those terms yet -- but I did think it'd be worth bragging about among my friends. Of ...

Alright, I've been threatening to do this for months, so I finally had an hour to kill and went through my cards to find 20 bespectacled candidates for "The Best Glasses in the History of Baseball Cards, the Sequel." The last countdown was Topps only. That didn't seem very fair to me. So I'm doing another countdown of non- Topps cards to see if the claim still holds up: does Kent Tekulve have the best glasses in the history of baseball cards?" He easily won last time, against what was probably much tougher competition. My non- Topps cards only go back to 1981, so there are none of the wacky frames from the '60s and '70s to challenge Tekulve . Also, I limited it to 20 players, instead of the 25 I went with the first time. I realize that no glasses countdown is complete without this card . But I don't have it, so as far as this countdown is concerned it doesn't exist. On with the countdown. Hope you enjoy it as much as the first: 20. Jeff ...