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Old 05-04-2014, 05:33 PM   #21454
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Originally Posted by Merkle923 View Post
Maybe I'm seeing things but this looks like a fairly-well altered image of Holtzman with the A's. Apart from the piping around the neck being in the Oakland style of the early '70s rather than the Baltimore style, and the shade of orange being off - isn't that a mesa over his left shoulder? There wouldn't have been an occasion during Holtzman's two-and-a-half months with Baltimore where he would've been photographed in Arizona.
Correct on all counts, as far as I can tell. When Cheech can't find a color image that he likes of a player he prefers to ask someone to Photoshop an hat and/or uniform rather than use a B&W photo. This is one of those occasions.
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