Night Owl Cards

I don't remember the first time I pulled a card featuring a player with no baseball cap on his head, but it's possible it was this card. Tommy Davis got off scot-free with me because of his magnificent Afro. But I wasn't nearly as forgiving with other players who chose to appear on a card without wearing a basic part of their uniform. From an early age, I recoiled in horror whenever I saw a player on a card capless. It was as if they suddenly became someone from another profession, say a mailman or a police officer or one of the other handful of professions that I knew when I was 9 years old. I didn't collect cards of mailmen or police officers. I collected cards of baseball players. And baseball players wore caps. To me, the photo was violating the one rule of baseball photography -- make this person look like a baseball player. It was a cardinal sin. And a white sox sin and a twin sin and a pirate sin. Where was the cap? And, so, to this day, it still bothe...