1978 Topps Image Inventory

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1978 Topps New York Yankees

There are 36 Yankee images in the set, not counting the Gossage paint job, but including Torrez, Bergman, Maddox, Cox and Blomberg.

We know the team photo was take at Yankee Stadium 8/13-8/16 or 8/24-8/30 because of the presence of Gil Patterson (4th from right, middle row).

The black and white image of Billy Martin was tough to identify, but it seems to show him with the Tigers, which means it was taken sometime during the 1958 season.

Almost all of the Yankee images were snapped at some point during the '77 campaign in the Bronx - White, Lyle, Munson, Clay, Guidry, Piniella, Tidrow, Jackson, Gullett, Nettles, Johnson, Dent, Figueroa, Holtzman, Hunter, Chambliss, Healy, Zeber, Randolph, Stanley, Rivers, Alston, Martin and Blair.

We know Ken Clay's image was taken some time after he joined the club on 6/6, and that Cliff Johnson's was taken after he joined on 6/15. Carlton Fisk can be seen in Roy White's image, so that means it was taken 5/23-5/24, 6/24-6/26 or 9/13-9/15. Other images show players in the visitors' dugout, but you can't make out the team.

Bobby Cox's card as manager of the Brave's is a paint job, and was taken in Yankee Stadium when he was a Yankee coach in 1977.

Mike Torrez was shot near the Yankee dugout sometime after he arrived on 4/27.

Ron Blomberg seems to have been taken at Shea stadium, which is where the Yankees played in 1974 and 1975.

Dave Bergman is a paint job probably taken in the spring of 1977 at the Yankee's camp in Ft. Lauderdale.

Mickey Klutts looks to be a colorized B&W image, but there is no indication of where it may have been shot.

Elliott Maddox played for the Orioles in 1977, but it seems clear that Topps used an older image of him taken while he was a Yankee, making it easier to show him as a Met, sometime during 1974-1976.

Both Record Breaker Yankees - Lyle and Jackson - were taken at Yankee Stadium at some point in 1977. The World Series card showing Reggie, if it was actually taken during the Series, was taken October 11, 12 or 18.

Finally, the ALCS card, showing Mickey Rivers sliding into second, was photographed on 10/5 when he connected for a double. A review of the box scores show there was no other play it could have been.