Night Owl Cards

There is a clipping pinned to a bulletin board at work just as you walk into the sports department. It is a copy of a high school sports game write-up from another newspaper. It's your typical roundup item, two paragraphs long. But those two paragraphs are so error-filled -- nine lines of text and about eight things wrong with them -- that the correction that the paper ran the next day is twice the size of the original roundup item. This amused me so much that I had to pin both items side-by-side onto the bulletin board. In the newspaper world, this is one of our greatest fears, that you will attempt to correct an error and just make things worse. So in typical black-humor fashion, I posted one of our greatest fears for all to see. I have never witnessed so many errors committed in one tiny space. Until I came across this Larry Milbourne card that I recently posted on my 1985 Topps blog. The back of that card is a treasure trove of mistakes. First, let's addre...