Willie McCover-up

[JollyElm]

I obviously used the generic baseball term of 'wall' to denote the outfield fence. And who knows how far away from the plate the photographer was? That's why I approximated 400 feet or so.

[JollyElm]

In case anyone is still paying attention, here's a reverse image of the card that really highlights how blatant the cropping around his head is. Wish I could locate the source photo.

1973mccovey410reversed.jpg


And it gets a little weirder (as I continue down the rabbit hole). Here's an aerial view of Candlestick from the era...

candlestickparkfromabove.jpg

Look behind the 'wall' in right centerfield. See the one angled ramp-looking thing closest to the fence? Now look to the right of the fielder in the reversed picture of the McCovey card above. The bottom of one of those angled things (presumably) is in view and it's oriented the same way now...in a REVERSED pic (thus, in the original pic it would be going the wrong way)!!! Is it possible that a reversed random pic was used for the outfield section? The Reds right fielder was most likely Pete Rose, who threw righty. The reversed player seems to have a mitt on his left hand. I dunno. If there's no reversal, then perhaps it was Bobby Tolan (or possibly lefties César Gerónimo or Joe Hague depending on the year of the picture) either playing in right or positioned in right as part of the McCovey shift.

Man, I gotta stop. Occam's razor, Occam's razor!! Nothing weird to be found here. It's just a blurred out airbrushing job.

[Beercan collector]

Yeah that card is a messed up riddle .
I was thinking maybe an artist crudely re-created The entire background from a photo ( The outfielders arm is 4 feet long )
But the green grass between the Bench and McCovey is consistent with the grass in front of McCovey .
Musta hit that foul ball a mile for both of them to be gawking like that

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by Beercan collector

Yeah that card is a messed up riddle .
I was thinking maybe an artist crudely re-created The entire background from a photo ( The outfielders arm is 4 feet long )
But the green grass between the Bench and McCovey is consistent with the grass in front of McCovey .
Musta hit that foul ball a mile for both of them to be gawking like that

Yeah, the outfielders left arm looks like he's got the wingspan of Wilt Chamberlain on the body of Freddy Patek.