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Originally Posted by rlumpkin1@tampabay.rr.com
anyone have Frank Coggins, Roy Foster, Lloyd Fourroux, Tom Fisher, Felix Delgado in a Seattle Pilots uniform?
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Lloyd Fourroux would never have worn a Pilots uni. Even after the trade to Seattle, he stayed put in Elmira and retired after the '69 season. You can find an image of Lloyd in what is likely a Bluefield Orioles uni in the
minor league thread.
Its likely there's also no image of Tom Fisher in Pilots garb as he wasn't invited to spring camp with the team in 1970 (though, in that case, its at least possible).
There
might be images of Foster and Coggins with the Pilots from spring training 1970 in the Topps Vault, since both were expected to make the team (both were traded to the Indians on April 4, in what I believe was the first ever trade made by the newly minted Brewers), but none have been released that I know of (and, indeed, the Vault's Pilots inventory seems unusually thin, if you're asking me). Felix was in camp in 1969, but primarily served as a scout for the club. Given that the disputes between Topps and the Players Association were ongoing until late March of '69 (IIRC), they might not have felt it worthwhile to shoot pictures of him or other spring instructors, if indeed he was still in camp at that time. At that point, Topps was rather in a hurry to get some shots of
players in the new unis for that years set. The fact that the team, itself, did not have a picture of Felix in a Pilots uniform (as they did for Bob Lemon, for example) suggests to me that none were taken. If they were, it would probably have been taken by AP and they haven't released their complete stash either. I think we got most of what the Seattle papers had (that weren't destroyed) when they released a batch of "forgotten" photos
a few years back.
I'm actually most surprised you never see snapshots of the Pilots taken by fans. Did nobody in Arizona bring their camera to the ballgames?