More to the point I think, if I were the one buying the photo, I would not make my decision based on that 22 being indicative of the year of the photo with no other corroborating evidence. If it was an in-uniform shot and the uniform style matched the year, maybe, but even then if it was a date I would expect to see the full "1922" in a date stamp.
And after looking at a bunch more Sporting News photos, I'll add that date-stamped photos from their archives are more the exception than the rule. It seems like, if it didn't have a date stamped on it or in the caption when it came in, it didn't get one. Sometimes there would be a date (usually just the year) penned by hand along with the notation of the player's name and sometimes team, but right offhand, I can't find an example of a TSN stamped date to even try to compare to.
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