I used to run a regular feature on Night Owl Cards called "Best of the 1970s". I would show the '70s Topps cards of a particular star player from that period and ask readers to vote on which one they thought was the best. I still have that feature listed on my links at the top of the blog, although I haven't done anything new with it for years. There are a couple of reasons for that: 1. The poll option that Blogger once offered is gone. The only way to register readers' votes is by having them comment on a particular post and, boy, is that clunky. 2. I thought the feature was about to run its course because I believed there to be a limited amount of players who had a Topps card for every year of the '70s. Even for some of the subjects I put up for vote, they don't have a Topps card for every year in the decade. It turns out I was quite mistaken about the second reason. A week or so ago, Phungo wondered whether I had tracked down all of the players wh...
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