Ben, it is absolutely a printing issue where the yellow ink is only present in half the card. I collect print issues as well and this one is interesting because most of the time a color pass miss impacts the whole card not half. If you see a normal 77 Oates the pennant is yellow. This pennant is essentially creme color.
My interest in the card is whether a card can have the appearance of a sun fade but in reality be a print error. The more I think of it though there must be other ways of discerning whether a sun fad or print error is occurring beside just blue lettering vs green.
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