If I compiled a list of all the major-release movies from the late 1980s and then a separate list of my top five "most glaring nonviews," I believe "Dead Poets Society" would be at the top of the shorter list. I watched just about every movie that came out in the late '80s, that's what I was doing then, going out with the girlfriend, eating at restaurants and going to the movies. On a weekly basis. Somehow I missed "Dead Poets Society". No big deal. The movie is so well-known that I know the plot and the actors and many of the quoted phrases: "Seize the Day," "O Captain, My Captain". I'm not a movie watcher anymore so I'll probably never go back and see it or anything else that's on my top five misses. While I was doing all that movie-watching in the late 1980s, Topps was creating cards that also referenced a captain. Two each, in fact. No, it wasn't a Topps homage to the Walt Whitman poem. Topps included...
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