Night Owl Cards

I have a lot of blog ideas bouncing around in my head and written on little pieces of paper. Most of them remain where they are, periodically called to the royal palace to be considered by the king (re: me) only to be discarded in disgust. But sometimes I'll be reading a blog and someone will touch on an idea or a portion of an idea and I take that as a sign. "Well, I have to do the post now. The blogging gods just sent a message." You lucky people. A few days ago, this Sonny Jackson card was featured on the exhaustive 1974 Topps - Pennant Fever set blog. I honestly don't know where wobs gets the time to do all that, but it does come in handy. On this particular post , he mentioned that Jackson may be the only player in the set with a position designation of shortstop-outfielder. Guess what? He is. I looked. I looked because I had wanted to do some sort of post about players who field multiple positions and being credited for it on cards. I can tell yo...

Yes, this is an attempt at jinxing a certain team ... Here is the breakdown of the colors Topps attached to Cardinals cards for the years when the colors used were based on the team featured: 1964: green 1965: red, black and yellow 1966: yellow and red 1967: light blue 1968: yellow and red 1969: yellow and red 1971: white, yellow and light blue 1972: blue, light blue and yellow 1974: blue and red 1976: red and green 1977: green, red and orange 1978: green and pink 1979: red, yellow and green 1980: red, orange and blue 1981: yellow and red 1982: pink and brown 1983: red and purple 1984: red and orange 1985: red and yellow 1986: red 1987: red 1988: red, blue and orange 1989: red and blue 1991: red and orange 1992: red, gold and yellow 1993: red and black 1994: yellow and orange 1998: red 2000: red 2002: red and blue 2003: red and yellow 2004: red and blue 2005: red and blue 2006: red and yellow 2007: red and blue 2008: red and gray 2009: red 2010...