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Unless there was a duplicate made of that exact frame in 1970, it won't turn up because it doesn't exist in its original state.

Other images from the same shoot - presumably from the spring of 1970, with the Boston cap and uniform untouched - very well might. But, literally, Topps production methods at the time involved in-camera editing (the photographer was instructed to take a picture that could be used 'as is' on a card; no cropping or blowups) with the actual large format negative roll he submitted cut into individual images.

If the image needed to be altered - a new logo or color airbrushed onto the original, or as in this case, a logo simply blacked out and no replacement made - it was almost always done on the negative itself. So even if Topps happened to randomly pick the negative they used to produce Conigliaro's 1971 card and offer it on eBay, the negative would look exactly like the card, with the cap blacked out.

The sole exceptions to this, as I understand it, were with last-minute deals such as demonstrated by the Bob Buhl 1962 cards shown below. Buhl's card showing him with, and labeling him with, the Braves, was already in production when he was traded to the Cubs on April 30. Topps was easily able to change the team label in the 'wood panel' overlay but had to wait until a second print run to go back and retouch his cap by altering the actual printing plates in some manner, the specifics of which I don't know. Thus the original Buhl negative still shows him with the Milwaukee cap intact.

Conigliaro was traded by the Red Sox to the Angels on October 11, 1970, so it was hardly the kind of last-minute scenario that Buhl's team change was. The negative itself would've been altered. And there's no cheesy "CA" logo because Topps pretty much stuck to just washing out logos from about 1966 through 1971 and really only got back into trying to paint new caps in '72, with often hilariously disastrous results.

(By the way, if and when Conigliaro does turn up on the Giant Topps Negative Roulette Wheel - which would have to feature numbers perhaps as high as 2,000,000 - they shot Conig repeatedly in his Red Sox days, and they got him at Anaheim Stadium with the Angels in 1971, but they did not shoot him during his brief return to the Red Sox in 1975, so there will be no images of him in the double-knits and red caps besides the SSPC 'out-take' I posted here last spring).