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Originally Posted by Merkle923
Made me laugh when the card came out of the packs in March, 1970. Made me laugh when it showed up on their hosting site today. The explanation was that his off-season profession was Detective.
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That's not the pic for the 1970 Palmer. This is:
You can tell that the one Merkle posted couldn't have made an early-series 1970 Topps card because the Phils didn't wear the "Big P" uniforms until 1970. So any shots of them in those uniswould only be in the latest of the 1970 series (if the pics were rushed back from spring training, but this is clearly at Shea), or more likely the '71s
I suppose reception for the 1970 card was so good they asked Lowell to replicate the pose for '71. And of course they pretty much did, although again, it wasn't that particular shot:
