2022 Topps Heritage Minor League Baseball Forum

I'm nearly certain card #147 has Kyle Stowers of the Norfolk Tides actually pictured on the card front instead of the intended Gunnar Henderson.  Aside from physically looking like Stowers (even has the same batting stance stride), a quick google image search of Stowers will show he wears the same exact shin guard shown on the card (ex: https://www.pilotonline.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2022/05/28/IQPOVTPKC5BZZL3MAKOQ3ECVOM.jpg?w=1024).

Not saying you are wrong, but Gunnar also wears the elbow pad and shin guard. https://www.tcdb.com/ViewCard.cfm/sid/359703/cid/21214880/2023-Bowman---Bowman-Spotlights-BS-5-Gunnar-Henderson

True, Gunnar typically wears one as well.  However to the best of my knowledge (watched a lot of Orioles / Tides games) and from looking over images on the internet, the shin guards worn by Gunnar have always had a two color (black & orange) color scheme while in AAA and MLB.  The one pictured on the hitter in the card is literally the same brand and 3 color scheme (black, orange & white) as the one Kyle Stowers has worn regularly at both AAA and MLB levels.

Again, not stating you are wrong, but caution using gear as an identifier. For all we know, pieces may have been shared amongst players during any particular game. Need to identify the face/body.

Which is a fair point and I don't want my personal opinion to be wrongly taken as a fact either. I just found it interesting and I thought I'd share.

There is a flip side to this. If it is indeed a different player than Gunnar then a UER note is appropriate to add to the card.

This is definitely not Henderson

Just saw this and started to do some research, but my bed is calling me.  Looks like it was discussed quite a bit on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/orioles/comments/z9vjww/serious_question_is_this_gunnar_henderson/

I didn't read through it all to see if a consensus was made because I'm tired, but looked like quite a bit of dialog about it and figured it might help with the research on this side.

https://imgur.com/a/93mpUn2

photos from the game the image came from, its not gunnar, you can see the lady in the white shirt, guy in yellow shirt, guy inhnat and blue shirt in the background...gunnar is not wearing any leg guard, stowers is.....

maybe should add an uncorrected error notation

The forum makes a very convincing argument, even finding photos from the game, including the photographers photos that this image came from.  There was a lot of discussion of the guards that each player was wearing, but I didn't see the most obvious discrepancy mentioned (I admit I didn't read the entire thread) - Gunnar was using a brown bat while Kyle was using a black bat.

I have updated the card (and the parallels) with an UER.