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Almost awesome night cards

What a strange card. I've been going back and forth over whether this card is a night card. I don't think it is. And when I see it scanned, I really don't think it is. The photo is lighter in the scan than in person. But Shane from Off the Wall sent it to me as a purported night card, and I can't blame him. There's still a part of me that thinks it's possible. It sure is dark where they're sitting. But my instincts say it was more likely taken indoors, using shoddy late '80s minor league camera equipment, and the picture-taker was positioned somewhere around the pitcher's mound. But what minor league team in the '80s had an indoor facility with grass? Maybe it is a night card. Oh, I don't know. I go around and around about this stuff. These are the arguments I have with myself when mulling night card possibilities. It's really self-created busy work that I absolutely don't need. What I should do, when I don't know whet