It appears to be faded to me. Green to Blue fading is easy on these, I have plenty of the 1977 Topps Star Wars cards printed on the same stock as the baseball issue that have faded due to exposure and look the same way. If it was a print issue, one tell to me would be that the other colors, or parts of the card that don't have any of the inks used to make Green, should not be lighter in tone. The roof over the stands growing lighter in tone with the rest of the card seems to me to be a giveaway. Then again, I've grown suspicious of Green to Blue or Red to Orange "printing errors" as these are the most common exposure damage, and just coincidentally also the majority of supposed printing errors.
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