Night Owl Cards

  Since I don't prioritize autographs in my collection, I don't have a lot of them that aren't Dodgers.   The ones I do have sit in the back of my autograph binder, filled with 99 percent Dodger scribbles. There are a handful of Bills and Sabres scribbles, too.   But those autographs have meaning, too, and every once in awhile I will come across one that I need to include in my collection.   One of those times happened yesterday. I went to the monthly card show -- I'll have a post all about it tomorrow. The last card I picked up there was an autograph card. I saw it at the first table I was at -- and I told myself that if I still had money left and the card was still there -- I'd add it on my way out the door.   And that's what I did.   I had to -- it's The Mad Hungarian! This is one of the exceptions. Al Hrabosky is from my early days as a fan. I remember seeing him when the Cardinals played the Mets in the mid-to-late 1970s. Hrabosky, as you may know or h...

  On a post a couple weeks ago, cards as I see them showed off his signed autographed cards from the 1978 Topps set. He has a whole bunch -- more than 500 of them -- which is terribly impressive.   That inspired me to see how many autographs I own from the 1975 Topps set, as like gcrl's 1978 Topps set, it is the one that kicked off my collecting journey.   I knew that it would be far, far less than 500. My collection pursuit has never been about autographs. It's been a side-dabbling at best, mostly restricted to my early blog days. But I figured that if there was one set that would yield the most autographed cards, it would be 1975.   Maybe I'd have 10 cards from 1975 signed, I guessed. Maybe a little less than that. Eight? Seven?   Try five.   Ooof.   But they're all impressive in their own right. That Bill Buckner doubles as an entry in my '75 buyback collection.   So, yeah, word scribbles aren't exactly my thing. But which set does have the mo...