Night Owl Cards

  I received a selection of glorious upgrades, from Bo of Baseball Cards Come To Life, from one of the more elegant sets in the Topps catalog, 1978 Topps. It's wonderful stuff. They look just like what I pulled out of packs in '78.    I like '78 Topps a lot as it's one of the sets that came out when I was a kid. As I've mentioned before, it's the first set I saw complete, all 726 cards in one shot, and, yes, 726 cards was a stunning number to me.   It's iconic, instantly recognizable, one of the few to employ script-writing. I don't know how you can't enjoy it.   But it's obvious someone doesn't enjoy it. For example, Topps.   That's the only conclusion I can make -- either Topps doesn't like its own past set or it's afraid to duplicate it, one or the other. Because, outside of some one-off online projects, it has avoided reproducing it in its retro projects, particularly in Topps Archives.   2021 Archives just came out and for t...