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Did you ever notice the hat on card #386-1973 Topps?

BunkerBunker Posts: 3,926 ✭
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It looks like they drew it on him. Anybody know why?

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  • HoofHeartedHoofHearted Posts: 2,537 ✭✭
    Rick,

    Look at the back of the card and see if Don was playing with someone else the year before. He changed teams, Topps didn't have a current photo, so they airbrushed one in...er on...er something!

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  • ElemenopeoElemenopeo Posts: 2,577 ✭✭

    I imagine it's becuase he'd been recently traded from Philly and they didn't have an updated photo. There are a few cards like that in the set. I know there's one for a pitcher who was traded from the Cubs to the Twins and they drew pinstripes on the unifrom and altered his cap, but it's still clearly Wrigley Field in the background... I'll try to dig it up.

  • EstilEstil Posts: 7,128 ✭✭✭✭
    Yep, that's exactly what Topps used to do. Remember, this was before they had the Traded sets, so Topps did indeed have to airbrush a new cap on over the old one. I think Topps pretty much did away with that once the Traded sets became an annual thing in 1981.
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  • sagardsagard Posts: 1,901 ✭✭✭
    I'd say it likes like they drew it on him because.... they drew it on him. The original photo was 100% taken with him in Phillies uniform. There are tons of cards from the sixties and seventies like it, but most are a little more subtle. I think the '77 Jackson is one of the more famous of this type.
  • ElemenopeoElemenopeo Posts: 2,577 ✭✭

    Here's the card I was thinking of. It wasn't pinstripes they added but rather an extra stripe on the sleeve and pantleg, and they added a "T" on top of the Cubs "C" on the cap.

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  • AxtellAxtell Posts: 10,037 ✭✭


    << <i>Here's the card I was thinking of. It wasn't pinstripes they added but rather an extra stripe on the sleeve and pantleg, and they added a "T" on top of the Cubs "C" on the cap.

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    Interesting, too, that they used a picture of him pitching in front of the famed ivy at Wrigley field for an AL guy.
  • IronmanfanIronmanfan Posts: 5,504 ✭✭✭✭
    someone should post a scan of the 1973T card of Graig Nettles...It's a classic "paint on job" (as we called them as kids)
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  • BunkerBunker Posts: 3,926 ✭
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  • ToppsCo1lectorToppsCo1lector Posts: 2,633
    Anyone have a list of all the major cards with this? Seems like an interesting "set" to collect.
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    1950s-1960s Topps NY Giants Team cards

    Looking for Topps rookies as well.

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  • NewJerseyMeatHookNewJerseyMeatHook Posts: 1,441
    Looks like he wet his pants, too.
  • NewJerseyMeatHookNewJerseyMeatHook Posts: 1,441
    Twins playing the Cubs at Wrigley in 1972?

    Interleague play?!
  • gonzergonzer Posts: 3,037 ✭✭✭✭✭
    How about Nolan Ryan's 1972 Topps.
  • MikeyLikesItMikeyLikesIt Posts: 501
    I just recently purchased a raw 1973 set and as I was going through them, I noticed how many airbrushed cards there are in this set. There has to be at least 25 from 1973 alone. And the airbrush work on some of them is pretty bad.
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