Night Owl Cards

If you have some knowledge about cards from the 1980s -- particularly the most featured cards from the 1980s -- then this card, even if you have no idea who Bob Pate is, probably looks vaguely familiar to you. It is a card that leads to the "Coral Snake Effect". I didn't make up that term. It was mentioned on my 1985 Topps blog by hiflew from Cards from the Quarry . And it didn't have to do with this 1981 Donruss card of Bob Pate, it had to do with this card: Yeah, I know, "who the hell is Keefe Cato?" You've got to read my '85 Topps blog and then you'll know. But this post isn't merely about nobody ballplayers. It's about how these players resemble someone else much more well-known in the set. In hiflew's and Keefe Cato's case it is the Eric Davis rookie card. They don't really look like each other, but they share some other characteristics. They're both Reds, they're both featured cropped at the c...