Don't recall posing during this thread's lifetime and surprised to see it back. Apologies for not reviewing the thread to see at what length this was already discussed, but ...
I know I wasn't that invested in either the card or the outcome, other than as a curiosity - and still am not - but looking at it more closely now, I can't even believe its the same play in the same game.
First, the 3rd baseman's foot positioning is so different (right foot in front/to right of the bag on the card, but behind the bag on newspaper photo) and
Second ... his uniform/sock don't appear to match. Even if you stretch your imagination and call what you see in the newspaper photo 'washed out', to make it the (clearly) dark/black seen on the card... you can't then say the black/'darker than the uniform' in the top half of the sock (newspaper) matches the white top half of the sock (card). Similar problems exist ex[plaining away the discrepancies in the shortstop, but I'll defer any further comments at this point.
I seem to recall that the image was more conclusive during the thread's original run (and can't be bothered to go find it), but with this image, its a no go for me. Not saying its not JJ on the card, just that this evidence does not seal anything for me.
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Just my irrelevantly late couple of centavos.
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Mike