Night Owl Cards

You hear a lot about "baseball lifers." Those are the guys who play the game professionally, then go into coaching or managing and spend the rest of their time on this earth doing good baseball works until they're carted out or called home. But baseball lifers are good for yet another activity. It's one that lets me know exactly how long I've been collecting cards. What I like to do each year is find a person in major league baseball who has a current card and then find a card of that same person from my very earliest days of collecting. It has to be a card that I pulled back then. Then I add up all the years in between and that gives me an indication of three things: 1. The player has been working in professional baseball for ages. 2. I have been collecting cards for ages. 3. Everybody is way too damn old. Last year, two specific people pointed out how long I've been collecting cards. I pulled Topps cards of  managers, Dusty Baker and C...