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Originally Posted by Merkle923
This is the Bennett wire service photo (UPI) I alluded to earlier, along with the image of Nick Willhite in the Mets' official 1967 team picture (the only known color shot of Willhite with New York).
Willhite was only with the Mets for seven home games in '67 and somehow avoided the Topps photographer, but got in the team photo.
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Merkle,
When you say "somehow avoided the Topps photographer", when would those photo shoots typically take place ? Granted the Mets and Yanks were the "home team" for Topps (a NYC based company), but did they have specific dates and times for photo shoots ? Did they go to Shea the first time each team came into town to shoot ? Was curious if they had a typical procedure or if they were just winging it. From my observation it looks like from 1962-the 80's they shot primarily at Shea/Yankee, Spring training and some in the Bay Area. Occasionally I saw some shots from 3 Rivers. Was very curious on how they coordinated their efforts.