Night Owl Cards

Just a short post today. That whole contest thing -- especially the last post -- wore me out thoroughly. A few days ago, I was placing the 1977 Topps cards that I received from Max in my brand new 1977 Topps binder (it makes me giddy just typing that) when I came to this Fran Healy card. It was the last one I was putting in the binder. Since I put my binder sets in order by the number on the back, I turned Healy over to look at its number. You know, like a newly acquired kitty from the animal shelter. "No. 3?" My brain said, trying to compute. But I didn't question it any more. I merely paged to the front of the binder to position my Healy card. Of course, I should have known, and when I reached the front I realized, that the first few cards of a set in the mid-to-late '70s were reserved for highlight and league leader cards. There were no player cards for the first 6 or 7 cards. And there the league leaders cards were at the front of my '77 binder, ...