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Originally Posted by Merkle923
As to putting dates on Topps photo shoots and the 1967-68 union boycott, from the files it looks like there was an attempt to shoot each visiting team as they hit New York. Sometimes this would be just once a year, sometimes it would be multiple visits. San Francisco and later SF/Oakland operated ad hoc in the beginning and then grew to the effort to shoot each team at least once each year there.
This resulted in some weirdness with the Mets and Yankees. Topps shot Gerry Arrigo - who only spent about half a year with them in '66 - at least three different times that year.
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It was good to play in the capital of baseball while it was still that. Reminds me of a tale I read somewhere about a Pirates middle reliever complaining about never getting a card, and a Topps rep shaking his head and saying, "Dude, you're on the Pirates." (Which shouldn't be that way, but what can you do.)
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found it.]
Given the weirdness with the Mets/Yankees, do you know if Topps ever shot these guys as Mets? I'd assumed no, but perhaps that was too hasty:
Tom Sturdivant
Dallas Green
Jack Lamabe
Promise I'm now out of questions.
Regarding non-Topps images of those three, I know about the good Lamabe portrait from Chicago and the not-bad B&W Sturdivant. But have never seen Sturdivant or Green in color as Mets.
Thanks very much to all the posters for the great info and pics. Goodness I love this place.