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Originally Posted by Merkle923
The latest Topps upload is photos actually used on cards, and highlights the strange case of Leon McFadden, an Astros infielder for whom no color image is known.
The explanation for these weird looking shots (this was used on his 1969 Astros rookie card) is that they actually depict McFadden in an Oklahoma City uniform and were taken during the MLBPA boycott of 1968. They ain't great but they're better than nothing:
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And there was at least one rookie card with *two* hatless minor league images from 1969.
Can't remember if there are any more rookie cards with what my mom (who saw this card when I had it as a kid) called "mugshot photos."
Looking at the Gary Gentry/Amos Otis rookie card here makes me wonder. Gentry played for the Mets then-AAA team; the Jacksonville Suns in '68. Is that a Jacksonville logo on his cap that the Topps artist failed to completely airbrush out?
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