Another Interesting(?) 1962 Green Tint Tidbit...

[JollyElm]

The 1962 green tint version of the Los Angeles team card has an anomaly that sets it apart from the 'regular' Topps version from that year, and it's the inclusion of the infamous inset photos…

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Basically, without exception, every single example of this card you'll ever see is blurred beyond belief. There is no indication on the front or back of the card that points to the identities of these two mysterious players, so I've always been curious as to who they were. So, I went around searching the 'net and look what I stumbled across. A 1961 L.A. Angels team photo that matches the one on the card (it's much, much more obvious if you compare it to this non-GT version of the card)...

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Whoever printed the green tints took many liberties while cropping the players in and out of the inset photos, and the wildly shifted colors and lack of focus are a nightmare, but it's quite clearly the same photograph.

And who are the players featured in the inset photos? Why, Art Fowler and Billy Moran, both of whom were Angels from 1961-64. I have no idea why the insets were eliminated in the regular Topps printing that year, but that's a question for another day.

Mystery solved!!!