Night Owl Cards

I was going through the 1988 Topps set the other day in search of candidates for the Greatest 100 Cards of the '80s countdown and marveling over the pleasing nature of that set. I will go to my grave insisting that the '88 Topps set is one of the most overlooked, picture-perfect sets ever made and losing a tiny bit of respect for anyone who says it's "boring." I have harped on this over and over and ranked the '88 Topps set fairly high in my all-time Topps sets countdown. From the rookie cup cards to the manager cards to the -- good, lord those Mets cards -- and the terrific, colorful, 3-D nature of the set, it's one of my favorites. But there is one element of it that I've always overlooked like the masses overlook '88 Topps. The team leaders cards are an unnoticed treasure. Perhaps it's because they don't look like the rest of the cards in the set, with the lack of a colored border and the white fog enveloping one-fourth of ...