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Fred Newman
The images are from 1966.
The Angels didn't change their "city/state" name until September 3, 1965, several weeks after the club's last visit to Cleveland (although there is some photographic evidence that the team had at least a prototype "CA" hat by the time of its trip to Detroit a week or two before the change).
Also, if Topps had photographed the Angels in CA caps in Cleveland in 1965 they would've used them in the 1966 card set. Newman, like nearly every other Angels player, appears capless or with a blacked out logo.
There are also several 1967 cards depicting the Angels in Municipal Stadium in Cleveland (Minnie Rojas comes to mind).
And - most easily for establishing a date for Topps images - remember that with the exception of some taken in San Francisco and a handful of others, ALL pre-1966 negatives "turned" to some degree into those awful red/brown discolored messes that ruin the otherwise great work. There is no explanation for this - could have been bad film stock, or bad storage, or who knows what - but even by 1967 the discoloration had begun and shows up on some cards. The 1967 Dave Boswell image - taken by Don Wingfield in Baltimore in 1965 - had already begun to go bad by the time Topps printed it less than two years later. There are a couple of later shoots - Brewers in spring training 1972 for instance - that have since gotten a little brown.
So rule of thumb: if the colors are natural, the odds are 99% that the image is 1966 or later. And if they aren't, the odds are 99% it's from 1965 or before.
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