Night Owl Cards

  Parallels are mostly considered a card phenomenon of the last 35 years, but they existed in the '80s, '70s and earlier.   I've written about one of the most noted parallel sets a whole bunch. It's my favorite set of all-time, the 1975 Topps minis test-issue set.   But the '70s had other cards that could be considered parallels even if that wasn't the intent. I'm thinking of the MSA discs mostly, but also O-Pee-Chee cards and cards in the 1977 Topps cloth stickers set. TCMA is also a good place to spot '70s parallels sometimes, too.   One of them involves the first set I ever bought.   I mentioned this set two months into starting this blog. It's the 1975 TCMA All-Time Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers team set. It's just 12 cards, featuring nothing but Dodger greats through history. I ordered it through the mail, most likely from the TCMA Advertiser, which came to my home. It's the first card set I ordered through the mail -- it may be the first...