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Topps also isn't always wrong about the years of their images. In Bill Haber's years as Sports Director, each shoot went into a half-envelope with Haber's distinctive block lettering marking year and name. Haber - one of the great early card collectors and researchers who we lost far too young - was obsessive about precluding ID mistakes in terms of player AND year.
Matney would've read "RON MATNEY '70." I recall Mathwig was ID'd as a 1969 negative on eBay and Matney a 1970.
Plus as noted in the minor league threat during the group hunt to identify a Dodger minor leaguer named Walt Adey, each year the Topps spring training shoots were limited to one team on one day (with a few rare exceptions). The Dodgers of '66 were all in road "Los Angeles" shirts with not-so-green grass behind them; the '67 were all in home whites on a very sunny day, the 1969's are in the road "Los Angeles" script, etc.
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