Night Owl Cards

I am resorting to blogging about the cards that are simply sitting in front of me this week. Pick up a handful and find something to say. This is a result of having very little time and very few ideas. I expect this trend to continue through the end of the week. So I apologize for any unusually brief posts or posts that seem rather ... um ... shallow in nature. This will not be a week in which you say, "gosh darn it, that night owl made me think again." Not that I ever expect you to say that. So, I'm turning to the repack rack pack that I bought along with the Topps Series 2 blister pack that I showed over the weekend. I seem to be the lone blogger fascinated by these particular rack packs. But fortunately, I have a blog where I can show them without getting shouted down, like I usually do when there's a topic that only I like. Here are some of the cards pulled from that rack pack: I am interested in any card from 1999 Topps because it was a year in which ...

To the rookie mojo crowd, the 1980 Topps set is nothing more than Rickey Henderson's debut (or, for you Canadian collectors, Dave Stieb's debut). But the set means a lot more to me than that. It is the first set that I ever attempted to complete, walking the mile and a half to the drug store every weekend to buy packs on a 14-year-old's allowance. It also features an iconic design. Although not my favorite, when I see a collection of 1980 cards scattered across a table the scene just screams "these are what baseball cards are supposed to look like!!" Maybe it has something to do with all the flags on the front. But probably the aspect of the 1980 set that makes it stand out the most, for me, is the card back: The basic framework for the card back is similar to what Topps used throughout the 1970s. The 1977 set, in particular, looked almost exactly like this on the back. But the 1974, 1976, 1978 and 1979 sets all had similar characteristics. I welcomed ...