Arcia as it turned out, never played for the Royals.
As a matter of fact the last Major League action he saw was back in 1970 with the San Diego Padres (as you can see from the original image), for whom he played two of his three Big League seasons.
I guess Topps jumped the gun and figured he’d see some playing time in 1973, yet for Arcia it was just a three year run in the Royals’ Minor League system between 1973 and 1975, before playing out his Pro career with a season for the Houston Astros Double-A team in Columbus before calling it a career.
All told, his Major League career spanned the 1968 through 1970 seasons, the first being with the Chicago Cubs, where he accumulated a career .215 average with 132 hits over 615 at-bats in 293 games.
