Night Owl Cards

(Today is International Picnic Day. It is also International Panic Day. That seems like too much of a coincidence. But there's no reason to panic over a picnic, not if you can bring baseball cards along! Time for Cardboard Appreciation. This is the 207th in a series): In the dark ages of card collecting, before the internet, before Beckett magazine, before cable, there was Baseball Digest, maybe Sports Illustrated, and, for instant information, the card back. That's all I had to go on when I pulled a card like this. And I remember pulling a card like this. My next two questions were "who the heck is this guy?" and "why is his name 'Shooty'?" So, the next move was flipping the card over, upon which I saw this: Early 1980s Fleer is delightfully uninformative. So, other than reveling in the fact that someone named Shooty once played for a team called Medicine Hat, I am no more aware than before I turned over the card. Fortunately, in ...