Night Owl Cards

For the second time only, I am featuring two awesome night cards on one post. This is because I can't stand either of these cards sitting in my "to be blogged about stack" any longer. They're just too awesome, and I need to know whether they get to go in the night card binder. To me, the team stadium cards are the only redeeming element of the aborted 2010 Upper Deck set. Long after the set is forgotten forever -- if it hasn't been already -- I will remember these cards. To my knowledge, these are two of the three stadiums in the set are pictured at night. The other is Fenway Park, which I need to get. (Seattle's stadium is a "dusk card."). I have attended one game in the Rogers Centre (then known as Skydome). I should have attended more, including the very first one . I have never been to Wrigley Field. But I did drive past it once. I was driving with a crowd of friends in one car on some main highway desperately trying to keep up wi...

I'll take just a moment here to recognize one of the high holy days of night card-dom. Twenty-two years ago today, the first complete night game at Wrigley Field took place. The Cubs beat the Mets, 6-4. Frank DiPino got the win, Sid Fernandez the loss, and Goose Gossage the save. The first night game was actually scheduled for the night before against the Phillies. But after 3 1/2 innings, the game was called because of rain, and the overly dramatic lamented that night baseball "was not meant to be." (I always remember that 8-8-88 date, not because of the numbers, but because it was an old girlfriend's birthdate. We planned something big for when 8-8-88 came around. Unfortunately, when the date came around, the relationship wasn't around). In the name of progress, the Cubs forged on the next night, won the game, and have continued to host night games ever since. There was a lot wailing when the Cubs decided to end their run of all day games. I wasn'...