Night Owl Cards

I'm not Irish. I don't know many Irish sayings and don't really like Irish food. But I did date an Irish girl in college. She had a very Irish look, a very Irish name and a very Irish family. We did very Irish things together (I mean drinking beer. What did you think I meant? Picking four-leaf clovers?). That is who I think of every St. Patrick's Day. A little of her must have worn off on me, because today I can't help but celebrate the day with a glass of ale and a post on green baseball cards! The ale will have to come after work. But the post arrives right now! I thought I'd give a little history lesson on the use of green in baseball cards. This isn't an all-inclusive study because I have neither the collection nor the time. But there are a lot a pictures here, so get ready. OK, green has been a basic color choice for cards since the beginning. You can't think of baseball without picturing green grass, so the two go together. In the...

In honor of St. Patrick's Day, I thought I would present a card set that features green as one its primary defining points. I'm not all that fond of the 1994 Topps set's design, and it's particularly because of the green that went with every player's card in the set. It would have been much more attractive if Topps changed the color depending on the team depicted. But because the set features green on the majority of its cards, we get to play Define the Design again. Here is the deal: I'm looking for a name for this set. The only stipulation is that it features "green" in the name, and that the name sums up the set. The person who comes up with a name that I can feature in the Define the Design segment on the sidebar wins, oh, let's say, all of my Shawn Green doubles. (Get it? Green? St. Paddy's Day?). And I'll throw in some cards of your favorite team. So leave a suggestion in the comments and let's get started! I'll let you know ...