Night Owl Cards

Yes, I ended a post title in a preposition. I'm off the clock, I don't care. The TCMA cards of the 1970s are true retro cards for me. Long before Topps discovered in the early 2000s that people would buy retro, TCMA was putting out nothing but retro sets for collectors wise enough to want new cards of old players. I first came across TCMA leafing through a mail-order catalog of some sort when I was a kid in the mid-1970s. An all-time Dodgers team set caught my eye and I ordered it. It was a wonderful, purpilfied set in which I first learned the names Junior Gilliam, Zack Wheat and Don Drysdale. I wrote about it back in the early days and I'm still thrilled I have it. I came across a few other TCMA sets when I was still a young collector and ordered some of those, too. My brother did as well. But there were several TCMA sets that we never knew about and I'm still learning about now. We also didn't know what TCMA meant. Why the abbreviation? We didn...