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Awesome night card, pt. 208

If I were to figure out which set had the greatest number of night cards -- and I have no plans to do that, although who the heck else is going to do it? -- I know that it would not be 1989 Upper Deck. It'd probably be some set from the last five or 10 years, when technology was at its finest and night games weren't the obstacle that they were in the past. In the 1980s, night games were still a project. But bless 1989 Upper Deck, they tried. They really, really tried. I have maybe 70 cards from the '89 set. Probably 25 percent of them are night cards. That's a skewed percentage because the majority of my '89 UD cards have come through trades and those traders know I like night cards. But it's still likely the set from the '80s with the greatest percentage night cards. My good buddy Dave K. knows this and sent a whole bunch of night cards the other day, along with some other very fine goodies that I'll show off some other time. Among the ni...