I
posted about this card a few years ago and never got an answer to my
plea: why did Topps feel the need to airbrush the cap on the 1973 Tony
Taylor card?
Take a look:
Taylor was obviously suited up in Tigers gear in this image, having
already played a year and a half at this point for the organization.
But why the paint-job on the logo on the cap? I understand the Tigers
had the orange “D” logo in effect on the caps, but if you go through
other Detroit cards in the set, it was about 50/50 between the classic
white or the new orange “D”.
So why mess with the image, especially when the result was this sloppy mess?
Anyone know what happened here?
As for Taylor, he put together a very nice 19-year Major League career,
collecting 2007 hits and scoring 1005 runs while swiping 234 bases,
mainly for the Philadelphia Phillies for whom he played 15 seasons.