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Jeff James 1968
Remember when I mentioned that during the 1967-68 player posing boycott Topps had to reach out to free lancers for photos of guys they had no images of but felt they had to have in the 1969 set? Thus the Reggie Jackson shot was actually taken by Louis Requena and the infamous Leo Garcia/Aurelio Rodriguez goof was made by the legendary J.D. McCarthy?
Well Topps has posted and will now sell one of these rare out-of-house images. It's a George Brace shot of rookie pitcher Jeff James, who Topps decided just had to be in the '69 set. They took his print and made their own negative out of it. Fittingly the shot is a little blurry:
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