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Old 03-14-2022, 06:17 PM
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Originally Posted by nolemmings View Post
Looks to me like that the Indians pitcher is Phil Hennigan, and the A's outfielder could be Matty Alou. Both were traded the last week in November 1972, and their '73 cards show them with different photos that were perhaps easier to airbrush the new team logos.

EDITED TO ADD that it is indeed Matty Alou-- from google:
https://baseballhall.org/discover/ca...oug-mcwilliams

Scroll down some and you'll see both Alou cards, alongside an interesting interview of the photographer, which included this little nugget:
"Q: BM
Topps photographers regularly used to take photographs of players without their caps, or with their caps turned upward so as hide the logo. This made it easier for Topps to adjust when a player changed teams. Did you do this with all players, or only with players who were more likely to change from team to team?

A: DM (photographer Doug McWilliams)
I was never asked to do that. I think that went out maybe my first year in 1972. I did have an assignment to do Matty Alou and Dal Maxvill late in 1972 with the A’s, and when the cards came out, Matty was wearing a Yankees uniform, badly airbrushed. They had sent me some cards during that winter, to show me some samples of what my cards would look like, as it was my first year shooting for them, with no printing on the back side. One was of Matty Alou, in an A’s uniform. I think it has a good dollar value."
Impressive detective work.
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