Night Owl Cards

This is one of the high holy cards of the Golden Age of collecting for me. The Golden Age of cards may mean something else to the general collecting public. But to me it means the card sets issued between 1975-80. Those were the first six years of collecting for me and where the most memorable cards in history reside. There are a special few for each year, and this is one of them for 1977. Looking at this card with our hindsight eyes -- with 35 years of collecting gone by since this card first blew me away -- we can find a host of flaws. But I refuse to look at it that way. I look at it as I did as an 11-year-old. When I see it that way, I feel the old feelings coming back. I like the "in-action" approach. I like Griffey's smile. I like the up-close-and-personal crop. And I like Griffey's bright, yellow bat. It practically looks like he's waving around a light saber. It was 1977, after all. The year Star Wars first came to be. This year was a terrific...