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Originally Posted by cgjackson222
White back, gray back, and what is the 3rd version?
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They are little collected and barely known, but a number of 1956 Topps cards have a cropping variation where the image is slightly different. This does not occur on the gray back, so it's a total of 3.
White back, cropping #1 (cap not cut by border)
Grey back, cropping #1 (cap not cut by border)
Whit back, cropping #2 (cap cut off by border)
Clemente is one of these cards and the biggest name. Pee Wee Reese is probably the second biggest name, there are probably more that we have not identified as some of the differences are even smaller than on the Clemente here. It probably has to do with the multiple slots on a sheet, but why it's only on the whites and not the grey sheets (I believe the grey to have been printed second, but that is a deduction and not a fact). Neither cropping appears to be rare.
Here are two examples; note the top of his cap and how on the raw card here it is cut off by the card border, but on the PSA example it is not.
EDIT: Also, the red dot on his uniform in the action picture is a recurring defect but I am not counting as a genuine variation as the three above actually are.