Night Owl Cards

Green grass is an oasis in a big city. I'm sure I'm not the first person to say that. It's no wonder that urban dwellers gravitate toward parks and baseball fields with all the depressing concrete surrounding them. Over the years, with the rise of new and newer ballparks, we've become accustomed to our cities' well-manicured, gloriously green ballfields created by well-schooled groundskeepers. Fancy shapes mowed into the turf don't even faze us anymore. In fact, I'm quite sure some of those ritzy people in the enclosed skyboxes demand it. We are so used to green grass and so thrilled by it that we forget how it once was: I've shown this card before . The photo apparently was taken during the famous Grass Blight that hit the southeast in 1971. The Expos cards in the 1972 set are filled with pictures of long-neglected lawns. Brown grass and patchy spots everywhere. It's terribly shocking to modern fans who demand nothing less than im...