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Awesome night card, pt. 9

I've had this lovely item teed up for a night card feature for awhile, and then Matt F. from Heartbreaking Cards sent me a few night cards and this one was in the stack. That can only mean one thing: the night card gods have spoken. I can only acquiesce. The best thing about this 1992 Upper Deck card of Ruben Sierra is not the point-of-impact shot, the blurry bat on blurry ball. It's something just to the north of that. It's those fantastic, glow-in-the-dark batting gloves. Look at those radioactive beauties. Wouldn't it be great if batting gloves really were glow-in-the-dark? I realize Charlie Finley once tried using glow-in-the-dark baseballs. Personally, I think it's a smashing idea. But how about glow-in-the-dark fielding gloves, too? Glow-in-the-dark spikes to light your way as you're rounding second, heading for third? Glow-in-the-dark helmets! Glow-in-the-dark lettering on jerseys! Glow-in-the-dark eye black! This was part of my rambling thought process...