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Originally Posted by Cusick
Given the uniforms on the Dressed to the Nines website, it appears to me that this unidentified player would have been with the Expos during the 1995-2000 period. I checked a number of players (but not all) from that period, and was unable to come up with a match. However, the spring of 1995 was a special case. The big league camps were filled with replacement players instead of the usual major leaguers and prospects. Merkle, do you know if Topps took photos of replacement players?
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Topps would not likely have taken pictures of replacement players as doing so would have violated their agreement/contract with the Players Association. Replacement Players were banned for life from the Players Association. Even years later, when the occasional former replacement player would make it to the majors (as some were minor leaguers called up by their big league franchises at the time), there was a firestorm any time Topps would produce cards of them (Ron Mahay comes to mind; he was included in Topps Total one year--many years after the strike).