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Nixon's Not The One
How many things are wrong with this picture?
I can attest that the above hitter was in a folder marked "Ken Nixon, Braves, 1966."
Everything about this is wrong. The image matches nobody on the 1966 Atlanta spring roster AND the non-roster invitees. There WAS a number 50 in camp and it was then-outfielder Carl Morton. I've found images of all of them (only recently tripping over a picture of a career minor league catcher named Bob Turzilli) and he's not one of them. Moreover, while he might have been a minor leaguer in camp for a day, that was a rare thing in 1966 and there are at least a dozen major leaguers posed in virtually the same physical location as this guy was - so this wasn't taken at minor league camp. There were also no other Nixons in that organization that year nor in 1965, nor Nicksons, nor Dixons, and only one other Ken - and he was a lefty hitter.
There is only one near homophone for "Ken Nixon" in the Braves' farm system of that time, a young outfielder named "Butch Menton." Can't find an image for him nor any indication that he wandered through the Atlanta camp somehow in March, 1966.
Just for the record, The Unknown Soldier here is not Ken Nixon - THIS, also posted by Topps Vault today, is Ken Nixon:
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