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Ruperto "Rupe" Toppin colorized by request with the Kansas City Athletics. While doing this colorization, I checked the player on baseball reference as I normally do to check the player name and years played with club in question. This one was easy, Toppin only played in one major league campaign with the 1962 Kansas City A's. His image on Baseball reference is even the self same image I am going to be working on, albeit their image is of MUCH lower quality, and was even colorized. I work it up with the familiar Athletic green and gold and got a nice result. I decided to be thorough and check the hat on Dressed to the Nines because the bill in the black and white is a shade lighter than the rest. The 1962 uniform turns out to be quite different than what I had expected. The jersey is base white with red and blue shoulder stripes and either a blue or red undershirt depending on whether it a home or away uniform. The cap is blue with a red bill. Note to self; in the future always do all your research ahead of time. I was able to go back and change the colors on the uniform. I present both images here. I guess the green and gold one can be one of those "what ifs" or "never weres." Great image to be colorized by the way. Thank you for sharing it (and using the old remini magic on it)