Night Owl Cards

I discovered this card today. September is going to be a pretty good month, I think. It popped up during my ongoing research for the Greatest 100 Cards of the 1970s, and, yes, I am now involved in an inner philosophical struggle about whether this card belongs on that list. It's moments like this that keep delaying me from kicking off this countdown. Somewhere on this blog a month or two ago I believe, I promised a debut for this series before the end of August. That's not going to happen, obviously. But to show you how close I am to debuting the countdown, I pulled five cards that I thought were definite contenders for the list, but did not make it. Let's see those cards so you can be as outraged as I was: I've loved this 1977 Topps Jim Palmer card since I was 11 years old. The wild action, the gorgeous orange jersey and cap, the shadowed hurler. But objectively, the 1976 Topps Palmer is even better ... and even that card didn't make the final cut. ...