N172 “No Name” Cards

[Matthew H]

Great info Joe, thanks! With all of these Denver cards relying on script... It seems with all of the cropping variances between the same pose... there has to be another one with no name out there to be found.

Not to de-rail this thread, is it possible that some posses (other then brooklyn) can be found with a different "zoom" ( larger or smaller ) ?

I have compared the card of Nagle below to others of the same pose. In mine, he seems larger. His head touches the top of the photo while his feet seems closer to the bottom. he also looks wider. Maybe someone can prove me wrong... I would really like to know. (This also may help us find another no name )

Edit: Would we be able to tell if the Mcquaid has a name with a reversed image? I dont have photoshop anymore so I cant do it.

[Joe_G.]

Matthew, I did try to invert colors on McQuaid and can see what looks like part of the "M" and "Q" but nothing more. I could give it a better attempt if I had the card in-hand, scanned it at 600dpi, and played with the brightness, contrast, and color inversion. I'm sure the name is there.

As for Nagle and many others, they can be found at slightly different sizes year-to-year and even within same year (physical size of player on the card). An extreme case of this is Bill Collins who was awarded two different poses based on same negative due to significantly different appearance. One card shows Collin's entire body, the other only "3/4 length". See poses 84-7 & 84-8.

The Brooklyn mini is why Brooklyn was discussed at length in the book (regarding production process that led to normal and smaller appearing players).