This card is perplexing.
No, I don’t mean the extreme lo-fi nature of the shot, with its random action, apparently shot out of the upper deck.
I mean, how did this card happen?
The Chicago White Sox are on the road. The photo should have been taken in 1972. There is Astroturf in the outfield. And based on the baby-blue coloring of the opponent’s helmet, that appears to be Bob Oliver of the Kansas City Royals smothering second base rather painfully on a slide to break up a double play.
But Kansas City didn’t move into the Astroturfed Royals Stadium until 1973.