Night Owl Cards

Ever since I pulled cards like this out of the first packs of baseball cards I ever purchased, I've been aware of the cards issued during the year a player won the MVP award. Without ever really thinking about it, those became special cards. They represented a player when he was at his very best, the talk of baseball, and how cool was it to pull a card of someone like that? The baseball cards featured on those 1975 Topps MVP subset cards became etched in my brain from an early age and I regarded them as the best of the best. But those cards that Topps showcased in that subset ended with 1974. More than 45 years has passed since then. I first started collecting cards 45 years ago and there have been almost double that many MVP players in that time. It's about time to recognize those other MVP cards, don't you think? So what I thought I would do is find the 21 best of the best -- 21 because we're grown-ass adults here -- 21 Topps cards, from its flagship bran...