Night Owl Cards

  U.L. Washington passed away Sunday. It was a little distressing when I found that out, not because I had a firm connection to Washington, who was the shortstop for the 1980s Kansas City Royals teams that repeatedly made the postseason, but because it took a long time to find credible information on the news. One big reason for that is the demise of traditional news sources, which ain't good, but also the immediacy of social media, which often doesn't place a lot of importance on how they discovered that information . But another reason is a lot of folks on earth now just don't remember the 1970s and 1980s. It's not important to them. Now that is more than a little distressing to me.   So Washington falls into that category of "incidental" baseball players of the past for many people. He wasn't George Brett or Tony Gwynn, someone who enters into fans' consciousness automatically whether they were around for that player's games or not. Washington...