Night Owl Cards

I have loved retro-style baseball card sets since I was a youngster. The old-style Renata Galasso/TCMA sets from the 1970s and early 1980s captured my imagination and interest in history. Seeing old-time players on cardboard was a thrill. The first set I ever ordered through the mail was a retro set, a 12-card TCMA All-Time Dodgers greats set from 1975 that looks like it was produced on a mimeograph. The sets that showed up at this time I consider the first wave of retro. Most of these sets are considered "oddballs" and span a long period of time, going back to the '50s and earlier. The early '60s Fleer sets and '70s sets like Kellogg's All-Time Greats were rare cardboard glimpses of the players who toiled on the fields during dad's and grandpop's era. Then came the second wave of retro. Although there were retro card sets earlier in the '90s, like the Ted Williams Company sets, I point to the 1999 Upper Deck Century Legends set as the o...

It is minus 17 degrees right now up here. That doesn't have anything to do with this post. But I thought I'd mention that just to show you that you can actually string a thought together under those ungodly conditions. Or maybe not. You'll be the judge of that. OK, if you've been wandering the blogs the last couple of days you have noted the screaming about the National Chicle set that Topps will be releasing this year. I'm not going to jump into that, basically because I don't have anything new to say. And the mother of all posts on the topic has already been written. But it's also because of this: I am officially sick of retro card products. I know. I can't believe it either. I think I've written at least 300 times on this blog alone and about 700 more times on other blogs how much I smoochy smooch the retro sets. I think I may have threatened to drive somewhere and kick some random collector's ass because he disparaged the good name of a re...