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Originally Posted by D. Bergin
The same cars are in the background.
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You seem to be right. But the cardinals/birds on the front of his uniform in those pictures just look so different to me, and why the obvious change in color to the green cardinal on the later year card? And as others have stated, Topps using a photo from a different year for a card at that time doesn't seem to make sense either. Maybe much earlier from back in the 50's, but why do so in the late 70s? As for the cars looking to be similar, is it at all possible it could be the same staff/employees, parking in the same parking spots, and still driving the same vehicles a year apart? Something just doesn't add up.
Also, in looking more closely at the cars a second time, not so sure you can definitively say they are the exact same cars. The angle and distances are different in the two photos, easily seen by comparing the apparent size of the building in the background, and the location of the streetlight/lamp. In the later year card, you can really only see details for the one vehicle, but because of the somewhat different angle the photos are taken from, there is no way that would be a photo of exactly the same car as the multiple ones shown in the earlier year card photo, at least not to my eyes.
And even if both photos were found to be from the same session, because of the somewhat different angle, and possibly distance as well between the photographer and subject in the two photos, I don't automatically agree with the other posting speculating these photos were taken maybe three seconds apart. Why would the photographer be moving around that much, that quickly, just to get a single shot of a player to put on a baseball card. It wasn't a photo shoot for a glamour mag or anything like that.
If nothing else, an interesting conundrum!