You know what's strange? There are a million theories regarding the green tint printing, most involving Topps farming out the production of cards to a second printer to keep up with the demand that year. We know the GTs had a few basic differences from their 'normal' counterparts. Aside from a handful of cards having different photos on them, ALL were cropped differently, but probably the most obvious difference was the imbalance of colors. Many have an oversaturation of green (hence the name), but it's really the faulty misuse of the magenta/red/pink/etc. hues that blatantly jumps out. Some have surmised that the printing plates were damaged and this somehow led to the pigment problems...but I just realized something. If you take a look at cards in the 400's from that same year, so many of them have identical problems - errant use of red, washed out images and skies comprised of bizarre colors that are nothing short of fantastical (yes, there are plenty of normal looking cards, too). As far as I can tell, there is only one version of each card (save for the checklists, which were usually printed a couple of different times across a pair of series). In other words, if a player's card has bad coloring, then every one of his cards has the very same bad coloring, and there are no cropping differences that I can detect. I dare say that whoever printed the green tints also printed all or some of this later series of cards as well. Perhaps this time the printing plates weren't damaged and consistency once again reigned supreme (although the cards look horrible) when two different entities were doing the printing, as opposed to whatever happened during the GT production?? An easier answer would be that the printer was just bad and they alone printed the entire run of the series I'm talking about here?? Who knows?
Here are a few examples of 1962 400's cards after a quick ebay search. All are very green tint-esque...
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Here's a pair of actual green tints. Look at how the sky, blurriness and washed out skin tones and colors compare to the cards above:
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