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Harry Chiti and Topps Vault
A) Look more closely, that's the Tiger Stadium scoreboard behind Chiti. The batting cage camera left and the odd framing of the shot makes it a little less than obvious.
But as you'll see below, another image from the same shoot made it onto Chiti's 1961 Topps card.
Which leads me to B) most of Topps' images were NOT taken in spring training. Generally each team would be photographed (at least in the 1959-1981 era) once in Florida or Arizona and then as many as two or three times a season at Yankee Stadium, Shea Stadium, Philadelphia, the Chicago parks, etc.
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