Company’s Airbrush Artists Didn’t Quite Accomplish What They Set Out to Do
BY MARK A. LARSON
Editor & Publisher
Topps’ airbrushing of players’ caps (and sometimes even uniforms) is legendary and the 1968 baseball set is no exception.
Topps was in a bit of a quandary when the Kansas City A’s moved to their new home city of Oakland, California after the 1967 season. In early 1968, most, if not all, of Topps’ available player photos of the A’s were in K.C. uniforms and caps.
Naturally — for Topps anyway — the logical fix was to send an “All Hands on Deck” message to their airbrush artists and blotch out the K.C. logos with black or green ink. (They obviously assumed most kids were too dumb to notice the ridiculous look of the touched up card photos.)
But whoever altered A’s catcher Phil Roof’s card must have been pulling an all-nighter and was in need of another cup of joe. The airbrush job didn’t quite reach the intended goal.
Roof, as can be seen, is wearing a helmet over his cap. The airbrusher “greened out” the K.C. logo all right, except for the reflection on the helmet’s bill. … Oops.
A few other 1968 Topps Oakland A’s airbush jobs:
Instead of fooling young card buyers, it just made Topps look foolish.
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