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Originally Posted by Merkle923
The images are from 1966.
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My bad; I just remembered that I'd seen some shots of Mike Hedlund in his first cup of coffee with the Tribe, and noticed that they were in Cleveland, so I simply checked those…and didn't account for the possibility of my having mismarked the Hedlunds. Sigh. Thanks for the correction.
(And of course there were plenty of other ways to check; such as examining the 1966 Topps cards or the 1965 schedule as you allude to. I was just being lazy.)
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And - most easily for establishing a date for Topps images - remember that with the exception of some taken in San Francisco and a handful of others, ALL pre-1966 negatives "turned" to some degree into those awful red/brown discolored messes that ruin the otherwise great work. There is no explanation for this - could have been bad film stock, or bad storage, or who knows what - but even by 1967 the discoloration had begun and shows up on some cards. The 1967 Dave Boswell image - taken by Don Wingfield in Baltimore in 1965 - had already begun to go bad by the time Topps printed it less than two years later. There are a couple of later shoots - Brewers in spring training 1972 for instance - that have since gotten a little brown.
So rule of thumb: if the colors are natural, the odds are 99% that the image is 1966 or later. And if they aren't, the odds are 99% it's from 1965 or before.
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Ahh; I hadn't known that the redness issue was so widespread. Yes, you can clearly see the difference between the nice 1966 Cleveland Newman and the Los Angeles Angels images of Newman in the same folder; the LA images, taken at Yankee Stadium in (I'm guessing) 1963, have gone bad in a way this one has not. Interesting.