Night Owl Cards

We begin this month's '56 of the Month post with a Panini card. Yes, a Panini card. I can't get much farther from a 1956 Topps card than shiny, metallic Panini Prizm. But there's always a reason on NOC. This card, and the '56 Topps card I'm about to show have something in common. As you know, the Dodgers wear red numbers on their uniform fronts. It is one of the most famous uniform accents in the history of professional sports, as there is little red (outside of the shooting baseball in the logo) in the entire Dodgers' makeup. But Panini's cards illustrate the front number in blue, which is quite jarring for Dodgers collectors, and I would think, faithful baseball followers. The red number is as part of the Dodgers uniform as pinstripes on a Yankees uniform. Because it is such a fixture in Dodgers' uniform history, my guess is it is off-limits for depiction by Panini, which does not own a Major League Baseball license. Logos are off-limi...