Night Owl Cards

A couple of months ago, I finished up all of the Topps sets of my childhood (1974-83). With that, I figured I'd take a crack at the non-Topps sets of my childhood, beginning with 1981 Donruss. I hold no real attachment to '81 Donruss. It was the least desirable set of the three available when I was buying Topps, Donruss and Fleer at the corner market that year. But since then I've come to enjoy it for the exact things that I disliked at the time, the thin card stock, the static photos, the errors, the miscut cards. It's a misfit set and I like those kinds of sets now. But still, there's a "meh, why am I collecting this thing now?" kind of feeling. My true set-completion devotion is to the 1975 Topps mini set and 1972 Topps. That's where the excitement is. 1981 Donruss is just here to help me finish off something a little easier. So, to get myself in the set-collecting mood with ol' thin-skinned Donruss, I requested a few dupes from the ...

Well, the best glasses in the history of MY baseball cards, anyway. Often I receive a comment on a previous post that inspires yet another post. That's a pretty standard blogger phenomenon, I think. And that's what happened when Patricia of Dinged Corners left the following comment on my post about the 1981 Topps Kent Tekulve card: "KT wore the best glasses in the history of baseball cards." Wait, is that a challenge? Game on! I'm a sucker for "the best" and "the worst." I love lists and all of that ranking nonsense. Did KT really wear the best glasses in the history of baseball cards? I went right to my collection to find out. What I came up with was the best 25 glasses cards. Unfortunately, I'm lacking a ton of cards from the '60s, so there are no horned-rim beauties on this list. One day, after I win the lottery, I'll buy up every set from the '60s and assemble every card of horned-rim wearers as if they are in the stands a...