Sporting News / Press Photo Help Needed

[ibuysportsephemera]

I don't think it matches exactly, the head tilt is slightly off.

Jeff

[D. Bergin]

Looks like a team or league issue promotional photo. You see these in all the various sports, and a lot of them end up as part of newspaper archives.

[mouschi]

Originally Posted by ibuysportsephemera

I don't think it matches exactly, the head tilt is slightly off.

Jeff

A photoshop overlay appears to be the same image, though you do need to tilt the card a bit.

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

Looks like a team or league issue promotional photo. You see these in all the various sports, and a lot of them end up as part of newspaper archives.

Very interesting. Is it possible the Athletics put it together, which was then purchased by Sporting News then licensed to Donruss or similar?

[ibuysportsephemera]

Looks to me like a team issued publicity photo. I have a bunch (from all teams and sports) that The Sporting News used in their publications.

Jeff

[mouschi]

Originally Posted by ibuysportsephemera

Looks to me like a team issued publicity photo. I have a bunch (from all teams and sports) that The Sporting News used in their publications.

Jeff

Ahh, ok. So perhaps several of these were made, but this one was just the one used by the sporting news perhaps?

[ibuysportsephemera]

Originally Posted by mouschi

Ahh, ok. So perhaps several of these were made, but this one was just the one used by the sporting news perhaps?

Having no knowledge...but my gut says that they were widely distributed. I always guessed that TSN would either request these for stories or that maybe the teams sent them directly to them.

Jeff