Night Owl Cards

  All right, we're blog batting around again! These come in super-handy when the window is super-tight for blogging, which it is today and tomorrow. (But May is almost over!) John's Big League Baseball Blog asks us to discuss our favorite player's final base card, the one that wrapped up his career. That card must be from a major set, no inserts, later retro cards (such as the one shown above), relics or autographs or buybacks. I like the way John thinks. Base cards never got anyone into any kind of hobby trouble. Can't say the same for a lot of that other stuff. My all-time favorite player is Ron Cey. His career ended quite awhile ago. Here is his final Topps base card:   What's that? You say that's not Ron Cey's final base card? He has cards later in his career when he played for the Cubs and A's? Oh come on, you don't believe those urban legends do you? This is what happens when too many people make too many custom cards and start churning out th...