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Staab
The turn UPI missed on this long and winding road - and which you understandably followed - is the fact that Larry Staab wore number 46 at Dodgers' Spring Training 1962.
Somebody at UPI's dark room space at Wrigley Field or at UPI Chicago or UPI New York without a scorecard or an opening day roster is working off a Dodger media guide or a Street & Smith's and thus identifying the fellow in the jacket with the "46" visible on his left sleeve waiting to congratulate Koufax as what it says on the latest roster - Larry Staab.
Of course, Staab was a lefthand pitcher, so why is he wearing a glove - and a fielder's one at that - on his left hand? Because he's not Staab, he's another (then) unrecognizable rookie who had actually made the Dodgers, utility infielder Dick Tracewski, who has just made his first major league roster and has presumably been given a jacket that more or less fits him. The facial similarity is pretty strong.
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