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Ken Kravec, Bonuses in the Background, Topps Employees
About Topps and curating its millions of images. That ship sailed a decade ago. Ownership perceived - correctly - that selling them would be profitable, especially in lieu of spending money on archiving them. So they packed everything up and sent it to the employees (there are two of them) who run the entire Topps Vault operation.
Trust me, I offered to buy the entire collection from them.
Anyway. One gem in yesterday's Vault upload and a bonus I just noticed. This is Ken Kravec, probably from spring training 1976, wearing the pre-76 White Sox red-based uniforms. He would have worn these in his two game stint with them in 1975.
But look over Kravec's left shoulder, in the detail next to the full image. That's Marvin Miller and his adjutant at the Players' Association Dick Moss talking to reporters:
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