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A friend of mine who pitched briefly for the Brewers and is the center of an informal group of ex-Brewers/Pilots minor and major leaguers has spent some time analyzing team photos featuring his old friends.

Among other things, he's found something that'd be interesting to us in the 1971 Brewers shot: Al Yates - the career minor leaguer brought up to Milwaukee late that season. He's a) in color, b) in a Brewer uniform, c) not in a Brace batting pose in which you can barely see his face.

We'll need an original of this (happily one was distributed by a Meat company in 1971; I know where I can get hold of one) to get anything resembling a usable image of Yates but there he is, in the middle of the back row right next to Marcelino Lopez, wearing number 9.