Night Owl Cards

I've written quite a bit about 1989 Fleer lately, but it's about the least enjoyable Fleer set from the 1980s for me. I just don't have a connection to it like other '80s Fleer sets. When I think about that, I believe the reason is because life was pretty good in 1989. Going to class was behind me, I was college educated. Lots of free time. A girl to wine and dine and the world to explore. I still collected cards, but they weren't getting me through anything. Now, early 1980s Fleer? Those were some uncertain times. Thank goodness Fleer was around then. During high school, I was a good student but not popular. I didn't feel like being smart all the time so I settled in with the kids that were like me, not quite popular, not quite eggheads, more smart-asses than anything else. Good boys who got into trouble periodically. I didn't really belong to anything. No sports teams for the most part. No clubs. I didn't join classmates every Friday night a...

I was going to get off this topic, but I have been spurred on by events beyond my control. So you can blame whatever unseen force that is out there compelling me to continue to write about the border colors in the 1975 Topps set. After listing all the color combinations in previous posts, people commented with what appears to be the most likely scenario for printing off the '75 Topps set back in 1975. Everyone (well, almost everyone) seems to agree that there were five sheets for the '75 set, and that each sheet contained 132 cards. Each sheet was 11 columns wide and 12 rows deep. Topps used the six most-common border colors (green-light green, green-purple, orange-brown, pink-yellow, purple-pink and yellow-red) on 55 cards each. It used the six second-most common border colors (brown-orange, green-yellow, light blue-green, orange-yellow, red-orange and yellow-light blue) on 33 cards each. And it used the least common border colors (blue-orange, blue-tan, red-blue, red-yell...