Another
one of those Topps airbrush jobs from the 1970’s today, the 1974 Joe
Lahoud of the California Angels, formerly the Milwaukee Brewers:
From the original uncropped image you can clearly see the “Milwaukee”
across his jersey, and with the convenient “up-shot” so common for Topps
back then, all they had to do was a minor touch-up on the brim of his
cap while cutting off the bottom of the photo.
Just like that we have Lahoud on his new team, for whom he’d end up
playing the next two seasons before moving on to the Texas Rangers, then
Kansas City Royals for the last three years of his Big League career.
All told Lahoud played 11-years in the Majors, the first four with the
Boston Red Sox, ending up with a career average of .223 over 791 games,
with 429 hits over 1925 at-bats while playing the corner outfield
positions with some DH-ing thrown in.
Never a full-time player, the most appearances he ever made in a season
was the 127 in 1974 for the Angels, to which he batted .271 with 88 hits
and 44 runs batted in, all career-highs.