SiddFinch Posted July 2, 2006 Share Posted July 2, 2006 Anyone now what's up here? These have to be inaccurate airbrushes right? The Giants looks like the SF Seals logo. I've never seen these logos in any photos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sj32 Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 Topps usually used pictures taken from the previous spring in making baseball cards. Since those players would be wearing Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants caps, they had to make a guess. Apparently the Giants and Dodgers had not released their new cap logos by the time it was time for the cards to go to press. It's kinda like Topps listing all of the 1974 Padres as playing for "Washington, Nat'l League" because at the time the cards were printed, they thought the franchise was moving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiddFinch Posted July 3, 2006 Author Share Posted July 3, 2006 Sounds like a plausible explanation. I wonder why Cooperstown Ballcap sells this oddity:SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS, 1958I have a pic from a 1958 SI and Mays is NOT wearing the above cap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronChefShark Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 that Giants SF looks more like the one wore by the PCL's San Francisco Seals. Im gonna say that Topps just took a guess that the Giants were gonna use the same logo, but they guessed wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonkj Posted July 4, 2006 Share Posted July 4, 2006 It's kinda like Topps listing all of the 1974 Padres as playing for "Washington, Nat'l League" because at the time the cards were printed, they thought the franchise was moving. Anybody have a scan of that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timparry Posted July 4, 2006 Share Posted July 4, 2006 It's kinda like Topps listing all of the 1974 Padres as playing for "Washington, Nat'l League" because at the time the cards were printed, they thought the franchise was moving. Anybody have a scan of that? Here's one: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sj32 Posted July 5, 2006 Share Posted July 5, 2006 Sounds like a plausible explanation. I wonder why Cooperstown Ballcap sells this oddity:SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS, 1958I have a pic from a 1958 SI and Mays is NOT wearing the above cap. Looks to me like Cooperstown Ballcap is using baseball cards as a source. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordie_delini Posted July 5, 2006 Share Posted July 5, 2006 EDIT: ICS beat me to this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swiss Posted July 5, 2006 Share Posted July 5, 2006 The "F" of that SF seems to me very NY-styled from the old times...Both logos are horrible!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiddFinch Posted July 6, 2006 Author Share Posted July 6, 2006 Looks to me like Cooperstown Ballcap is using baseball cards as a source.I've spotted a half dozen other bogus styles they make based on mistakes in the original Okkonnen book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sc49erfan15 Posted July 6, 2006 Share Posted July 6, 2006 Sounds like a plausible explanation. I wonder why Cooperstown Ballcap sells this oddity:SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS, 1958I have a pic from a 1958 SI and Mays is NOT wearing the above cap. Looks to me like Cooperstown Ballcap is using baseball cards as a source. With graphics like that, why would you buy from them in the first place?Sheesh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swiss Posted July 7, 2006 Share Posted July 7, 2006 Sounds like a plausible explanation. I wonder why Cooperstown Ballcap sells this oddity:SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS, 1958I have a pic from a 1958 SI and Mays is NOT wearing the above cap. Looks to me like Cooperstown Ballcap is using baseball cards as a source. With graphics like that, why would you buy from them in the first place?Sheesh. I agree with you. When I browsed searching some caps to buy, I found once that website and after checking its infant graphics, I never give it one minute more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gothamite Posted July 17, 2006 Share Posted July 17, 2006 Topps did that with the 1953 Milwaukee Braves, as well: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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