“Just zoom out a bit and sharpen the photo. Maybe a little color tinting on the sky, yeah, that’s it…. NONE OF THOSE LITTLE KIDS WILL EVER NOTICE.”
Oh YEAH TOPPS????
I NOTICED!!!!
And he wasn’t even on the Yankees yet. You lazy BUMS. Get off your fat bubblegum stained asses and take a new photo of the man.
OR – perhaps you could use the exact same photo every year for his career, and when he switches teams, simply write in the new logos with a crayon.
The Yankees got him & Ed Figueroa from the Angels before the ’76 season for Bobby Bonds, which turned out better for NY over the next three seasons where both players were instrumental to 3 pennants and 2 world championships.
When Reggie Jackson told a reporter he had an IQ of 160, Rivers responded “What, like out of a thousand?”
But then the Yankees traded Mick the Quick to the Rangers in the awful summer of ’79, when the Yanks struggled to catch the Orioles and Thurman Munson died in a plane crash. They got Oscar Gamble & his impressive hair back, but Gamble only really served as a platoon outfielder. Rivers played a good centerfield and was a great leadoff hitter, averaging .300 or better and distracting pitchers with base stealing and general speed, back when hit and run still existed.
He trained horses for a while, now he’s back in the Yankee organization (yay!) You can read more about him at his spiffy website here.
Just look at all those photos…. JUST LOOK AT THEM, TOPPS! Gawd.
Jim Berkin 
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