Night Owl Cards

(A very frantic day today. Still lots to do and I haven't even looked at the 150 or so blogs that I read every day. I have 15 minutes to pound out a blog post. I am appreciative of that. Although who knows how it's going to read. It's Cardboard Appreciation time. This is No. 63 in a series): I have mentioned many times that I once knew almost every single major league player who was currently wearing an MLB uniform. I had more time, there were less teams, it was easier. I have also mentioned that back then I received a majority of my baseball-player-knowing knowledge from my baseball cards. We didn't live near an MLB park. Televised games arrived only on the weekends. Cards were a valuable source. So, I studied my cards religiously and I knew everyone. Kiko Garcia. Mick Kelleher, Mike Cosgrove, Rick Auerbach. Knew them all. But I never had money to complete an entire set. My first completed sets (excluding small-scale regional sets) were the 1984 and 1985 To...