[Merkle923]

Not much of him in an Angels uniform - except for his Topps rookie card, the photo for which was taken at the same shoot as the images posted by the Vault today.

BTW I am just back from a consulting day at Topps and discussed with my oldest friend there why - given that I had a working knowledge of the entire photo archive when it was still housed in New York - so many negatives have shown up on eBay that I either searched for but could not find, or which depict players who did NOT have files in New York. It was his belief that there was evidence that there had already been a second photo archive in the Topps manufacturing plant in Duryea, Pennsylvania.

In short this means that the estimate I made of how many different negatives there are - at least a million - is very low. I think we should assume two million. That's great news for variety and the number of players and uniform combinations that might yet surface. The bad news is, if you're waiting for a SPECIFIC image, your wait might be a little longer. Topps doesn't have enough negatives to sell 20 a day until the year 2152 - It has enough to sell 20 a day through the year 2289.