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You've seen 'em before.....One Topps photo repeated from one year to the next......kind of a bummer.
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IF you have collected older vintage cards you have certainly run into the repeat photo..... they feel like a stinker too. Anybody share some others? They are all over the place. A lazy letdown IMO.
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I love that pic of Yaz. Wished they would have used it on every one of his cards. Now THAT would have been amazing!
The photo used for the 1958 Curt Flood rookie card was recycled 13 years later for the back of his 1971 Topps card. How many people look the same after 13 years? Sheesh!
how bout 3 times ....these aint my cards, by the way (Dont I wish)
Not going to post them all but Bubba Smith might have the record. Same picture for 70, 71, 75 and 76. His 72 and 73 photo were probably taken seconds apart.
Something tells me that this is the record.
Aside from the 72-73 base card, these are all replicated in the OPC sets.
Based on a previous thread, if you exclude league leader and team leader cards, Bubba Smith may have the record.
I copied my own post from an older thread.
And he is rockin' those slacks. His 70-71 cards for OPC and Topps, including the deckle edge, are from the same photo shoot, but, thankfully, are different angles. They do show him rockin' the slacks on the base card, though.
^ HAHA OMG!!!
Andy
Twice on the same card is pretty blatant!
Kris
My 1971 Topps adventure - Davis Men in Black
Twice on the same card pretty bad. ‘58 Williams and ‘68 Clemente use same photo in the same set for regular and All Star Cards. Successive years is nothing!
I kinda understand the consecutive years thing, but why have a 2 year skip 2 different times to the same player?
'54, '55, '56 Mays
Wow...5x on Bubba Smith!!!!!
You forgot one of the Mays cards:
I wonder if there are any examples of this on modern cards?
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
1960,'61and '62 Parkhurst hockey cards have the same player images.
'61 and '63 McCovey as well as '55 and '56 Clemente!
To me this is the strangest one. Same picture same year but two different manufacturers.
Mays is a bit of a surly SOB. Wouldn't surprise me one bit if he intentionally sometimes tried to avoid the Topps photo crew if he was in a bad mood.
As far as the baseball cards from this era. Frankly I'm amazed at the time and effort that Topps put into these inexpensive playthings. I loved them back then and I love them now. To me they are beautiful works of art, illustrating the wonderful game of baseball, the perfect summer game.
Evidently a fair amount of people out there must feel the same way as me. Some of these damn things went up in price from one cent back then, to a price you now gotta be rich to afford. LOL
One of my favorite players...
While Phil Esposito is pure amazing.....the fact Bubba Smith changed teams 3 times with the same photo might be the funniest.
The editorial decision to NOT crop the slacks for THREE base cards (granted, only 2 identical) in a row has me leaning toward Espo being funnier.
If Bubba had a toothpick in his mouth, was wearing a beanie cap or even street clothes, I would agree with you.
Yeh, I was going to post this too. Its funny that the 1970 is a different photo but the same profile.
I actively collect Kirby Puckett. I have collections of Michael Jordan, Emmitt Smith, Roberto Clemente, Dwight Gooden, Tom Seaver, Errict Rhett and Evan Longoria.
Bubba Smith looked young for his card on the Oilers card
Look like different photos to me. The eyes are different (open vs closed). Same sequence of photos though.
One more Bubba Smith
Topps and Opening day often use the same photo.
I collect hall of fame rookie cards, https://www.instagram.com/stwainfan/
Not the same photo, but always thought this was strange...
2018 Bowman Draft and 2018 Bowman Prospects
At least they did not use the same picture of George Korince in 1967
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Al
It took, like, 10 years for Sammy Sosa to achieve the same effect.
Any idea who that is on the first Tigers rookie card? The Kornice with Pat Dobson is correct
The are STILL doing this. Looking through 2018 and 2019 TOPPS cards, reprinted pictures are used in Both series, Heritage short prints became some gypsy base cards, action variants often have a similar fate.
As a newly returned card collector this is a major deterrent and turn off, which has me leaning towards one or none future set building plans.
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The player shown with Matchick is pitcher James Brown
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Al
They sure got thier money's worth out of that Espo pic lol
Topps must have made a huge profit back in the day, reusing stuff over n over...
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