December Pick ups

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Originally Posted by jason.1969

I never knew about this. Is there a story to it?

Several other variation collectors pointed this card out in another thread.....my guess is sometime during the early print runs of these 73s, someone at Topps noticed the BandAid on Al's head. Before more print runs were completed, one of the air brushing guru's at Topps jumped all over the opportunity to artfully "heal" Al's forehead. Not exactly sure how limited this card is, however, just on ebay alone, I looked several times a day for 3+ months for a copy to show up, so my guess is that Topps caught this early on. Another similar variation is the 66 Don Landrum button/no button card.

Thank you Ben.....