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1978 Topps Kansas City Royals

The set contains 31 Royal images, not counting the paint job of Jerry Terrell.

The team photo was taken at Royal's Stadium either 6/3-6/7, 6/17-6/23, 7/6-7/10 or 7/13-7/15. This would have been during homestands after Tom Hall was DFA and before Joe Lahoud was promoted from Omaha.

The small image of Whitey Herzog was taken at some point during his time with the Kansas City A's, 1958-1960.

The following images were snapped in Oakland during one of the Royals' 2 trips there, either 6/24-6/26 or 9/26-9/28: Porter, Brett, Bird, Leonard, Herzog, Littell, Gura and the Leonard League Leader picture.

Marty Pattin was also taken in Oakland, but because the only game he appeared in in Oakland that year was 6/26, we know that this action shop was captured during the 6 innings he threw in the second game of a double header before being relieved by Larry Gura. Pattin got the W to go to 1-2.

A number of images were taken in Yankee Stadium, either 6/13-6/16, 7/24 or 8/29: Cowens, Hassler, Colborn, LaCock, Patek, Poquette, Lahoud, McRae, Otis, Mayberry and Mingori.

Several of these images (i.e. Colborn) don't make it 100% clear that the location was The Bronx, but they are similar enough in look and feel to others clearly taken there (i.e. Mayberry) to reasonably conclude they were as well. Hassler's image was captured either 6/14 or 7/24, Mingori's either 6/13 or 8/29 and Lahoud's either 7/24 or 8/29 as he only joined the club in July.

A number of images were taken in the spring of 1977, but not at the Royals' training site at Terry Park in Ft. Myers.

Several images (Martinez, White, Splittorff, etc.) clearly appear to have been taken at the White Sox' facility, Payne Park in Sarasota, probably on the day of a game. The other spring shots (Hurdle, Washington, Patek LL, Busby, Wathan and Zdeb) were likely taken there as well (the use of KC's away blues is also a hint).