Capless Card Photos — No! No! No!

BY MARK A. LARSON
Editor & Publisher

I Have An Extreme Dislike of Card
Photos of Players Without Caps

— THEY JUST DON’T LOOK LIKE BALLPLAYERS SHOULD —

First, there’s these two cards
with the ironic first name:

Then there’s these ultimate
multi-player capless cards

Topps issued 12 Danny Cater cards between
1964-75 and fully half of them had capless photos:

And then there’s George Brunet. Topps issued just 10 cards of him between 1958-71 and seven of them had capless photos (twice using the same capless photo from the previous year.)

But wait. There’s more. A lot more …

I especially cringe when I see Hall-of-Famers sans chapeau:

OH, THE AGONY !!

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