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As a lifelong Mets fan, this 1972 Bob Robertson card has always puzzled the heck out of me. I could never figure out who the elvish-looking Mets player getting back to first base was. Over the years, I've looked at countless pictures of everyone on the team in 1972 and 1971 (the year in which the photograph was most likely snapped) and couldn't find anyone who had a scraggly, orangey goatee working...and today it finally hit me!!!
I think his facial hair is just an illusion created by a person in the stands behind him there. It blends together so nicely that you can't tell the player is, in fact, beardless and not some character out of a Tolkien novel. If you place your finger over that growth, the player who emerges is none other than Buddy frickin' Harrelson!!!!!!!!!
Admit it. You just put your finger on the screen to block the 'beard'!!
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Sideburns are a match, short hair length in back is a match. Case closed, yes???? I think this mystery is finally solved!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!