Night Owl Cards

  OK, I have another weird card number thing for you.   Like I mentioned the other day, my recent sportlots order included me chasing down the final couple cards to finish several team sets.   One of the planned team sets to finish was the 2001 Topps Archives set. But I didn't get to finish it. I was distracted by some weirdness in that set and then all completion was lost.   Did you know there are two Ralph Branca cards replicating the 1952 Topps design in that set??? I sure didn't.   Before placing my sportlots order, I was looking at what I still needed for the Dodgers in '01 Archives. Oh, hey, I need the '52 Branca card, let me add that one to my cart.   Then I realized I already had it. OK, let me remove that from my cart. Then I realized there are TWO of them with TWO different numbers. Whaaaa?     There is this one and if you look at the small print along the left side, you see it's card No. 227. (Yes, having two different card numbers on ...

This will be the last card front that you will see on this blog post, even though I scanned more than 60 images for it. Why is that? Because we're turning them over to the back! Yup, it's another one of THOSE posts. But if you're my age, you're going to understand. You acquire a certain number of years under your belt and some things become a little more important to you. One of those is the type on card backs, specifically the type of the card number . As in: IS IT BIG ENOUGH????? This is a common complaint for set builders, who look at card numbers all the time. Sorting becomes even more tedious when it involves a set with a difficult-to-read card number. It gets so frustrating. Why can't the card number be easy to read every year? Is this so difficult to do? This year's 2020 Topps set actually provides a fairly readable card number. The number isn't the boldest that Topps has ever created, but it is separated off in the corner, away f...