Night Owl Cards

  After much internal debate, I've decided to end this series with two single-year posts. I started the Best On-Card Element series with posts dedicated to an entire decade. But as the number of sets increased through the 1980s and into the 1990s, these posts got more and more difficult. So the last two posts in this series will settle on just a single year. 1993 first and then 1994. That'll be it. It will mesh nicely with my departure in the hobby, which was somewhere in the middle of '94. To be honest, even though I've come back to the hobby, I've never really cared about the year's current cards as much as I did pre-1994. As for 1993, I've probably mentioned this before, but I consider it the last great year in cards, as well as the last great year in music. Heck, it was the last great year in life! I'm being somewhat facetious, but ever since '93, it's taken quite a bit of piling through a thousand tons of crap each year to get to the good st...

  Yes, it's not over yet. I'm jumping into the 1990s for this series. This series is beginning to take the form of a long-distance run -- "another half mile and I'll see how I feel. ... OK, another half-mile and I'll see how I feel." I expect to be passed out and sprawled on the ground part way through the '90s. I actually don't expect to get past 1995. Right now, instead of going five years at a time like the previous posts, I'm covering only the first three years of the '90s. The number of major sets ballooned as the '90s began (remember, I'm covering only major sets in this exercise to conserve energy). Once more, this is where I try to find the "best" or "most notable" on-card design element, front or back, for each set. Some of these sets make this attempt impossible but I'll do my best. Let's go: 1990 1990 Bowman Best on-card element: I'm cheating a bit already, 1990 Bowman is so damn boring. The b...