Night Owl Cards

Don't ask me why I was going through my 1991 Fleer cards the other day, but I was. And I came across this card. Being the hopeless color freak that I am, I read the name, looked at the border, and chuckled. That prompted me to track down these other cards: The Bud Black card may not be as obvious as the other ones, but it works for me. I didn't spend a lot of time searching, so I don't know if there are similar cards for Pete Rose or Frank/Roy/Bill/Gabe White or Kevin/Bobby/Chris/Emil/Gates/Jackie Brown. But I'll search again some other time. If you found this as fascinating as I did, or even vaguely eventful, then you may be a color freak, too. If you didn't, well, that's OK. I now return you to your colorless, barren, despair-filled lives. Joking. I'm joking.

What you see before you, the bloated reality of Ned Colletti's dream of a more powerful Dodger lineup, is the last Dodger I needed to complete the team set for this year's Topps Series I. The card came to me along with a number of other Series I needs from Steve of a Baseball State of Mind . Steve has proven to be a great trading partner several times now. But for Andruw Jones, this is a first. He finally made himself useful wearing a Dodger uniform. Jones is now hitting .340 as a role player for the Rangers. I guess someone finally woke him up. Star power hitters who didn't come up in the Dodgers' system just don't seem to fair well in L.A. Manny was on his way to breaking that trend before dabbling in fertility drugs. And before that there was Darryl Strawberry and Eric Davis. I guess you could make a case for Gary Sheffield adapting well to L.A. Eddie Murray was a force, briefly. And Shawn Green, although he wasn't known as a power hitter until coming to...