1961 Topps Checkliest #98 - Player Identification?

[ALR-bishop]

I wonder if anyone ever recognized themselves in the stands on a baseball card

[whiteymet]

please delete

[Volod]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

I wonder if anyone ever recognized themselves in the stands on a baseball card

At least this guy, I imagine.

[ALR-bishop]

True enough. I was at the Chicago National when he did not show to get the brief case of money.

The faces on the 65 Mantle missing a Gibson fastball while hitting a HR off Barney Schultz are pretty clear

[Volod]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

True enough. I was at the Chicago National when he did not show to get the brief case of money.

The faces on the 65 Mantle missing a Gibson fastball while hitting a HR off Barney Schultz are pretty clear

Right, Al, who were those guys - they look like they might have been the heads of the St. Louis mob. But, as we know, the shot is actually showing Mantle whiffing on a Gibson fastball in Game 7.
Another bit of Topps chicanery was the pic used in the 1956 Mantle card, which could even be the answer to another trivia question on how many fans have actually appeared twice on one card. Usually, one cannot be in the same place twice at the same time, except when a Topps photo editor wants to make the empty stands behind a Yankee superstar appear more populated. So, he just copied and pasted the folks at the left edge of the shot into the right side of the same pic. Pretty clever...or not.

[ocjack]

Originally Posted by Volod

Usually, one cannot be in the same place twice at the same time, except when a Topps photo editor wants to make the empty stands behind a Yankee superstar appear more populated. So, he just copied and pasted the folks at the left edge of the shot into the right side of the same pic. Pretty clever...or not.

In all my years of collecting (and there are many), I've never noticed that. One never stops learning stuff.

[bobw]

The people on the left were pasted to the right and they also put the ball in his glove