Topps cards with player on wrong team

[nwobhm]

Do team cards count?

[brewing]

Originally Posted by nwobhm

Do team cards count?

Not really because team photos can be taken at any point in the year.

I'm really interested to see if any other players finished the season with one team and is shown as a member of their previous team such as the Dock Ellis example.

Can he really be the only one?

[paul]

I knew there was another. It's the 1980 Topps Ralph Garr. The front lists him with the White Sox, but the back shows his stats from 1979 with the Angels. O-Pee-Chee correctecd the error.

[cardinalcollector]

1988 Doug DeCinces shown as an Angel after ending season with Cardinals. Topps, Sportflics, and Score has him as an Angel, only Fleer got it right.

https://www.comc.com/Cards,so,i100,=1988+doug+decinces

[seanofjapan]

Originally Posted by cardinalcollector

1988 Doug DeCinces shown as an Angel after ending season with Cardinals. Topps, Sportflics, and Score has him as an Angel, only Fleer got it right.

https://www.comc.com/Cards,so,i100,=1988+doug+decinces

Actually this is the only 1988 card of Decinces showing him with the correct team:
https://baseballcardsinjapan.blogspo...-set-doug.html

[brewing]

The 1988 Topps DeCinces at least states he is "Now with Cardinals".

Ellis isn't in the 1980 OPC set so they couldn't make the correction.

The Garr and DeCinces have a statement under the stat box stating date acquired instead of in the bio block. Ellis' acquisition appears only in his bio block.

Is it safe to say that Topps would build the card fronts before the previous season ended? It appears they had the design then too.

Any more occurrences?

[nwobhm]

Originally Posted by brewing

Not really because team photos can be taken at any point in the year.

How about if the team pic was taken many years apart? How about the same player pictured on 2 team cards in a year where they play for niether team? How about a team card that the player was no longer in MLB for a couple seasons yet appears on a team card?

[brewing]

Originally Posted by nwobhm

How about if the team pic was taken many years apart? How about the same player pictured on 2 team cards in a year where they play for niether team? How about a team card that the player was no longer in MLB for a couple seasons yet appears on a team card?

Not really looking at those, just their base card.

I'm curious though, what do you have?