1973 Topps Baseball Forum

why isn't the reds team card #641 listed in the '73 hall of famers? thanks.

Looks like no players are linked to the card, since it's the site's policy to have everyone in a group photo identified and tagged, or nobody tagged, rather than having just a few of the people pictured tagged (or at least that's my understanding - I know there have been some discussions in the threads about that, so my knowledge might be out of date).

Anyway, whatever the reason, since no players are linked, there's no HOF'er attached to the card, so the site won't list that one as a card of a HOF'er.

thanks, but it is a mistake.  they have HOF'ers to be linked.  I sent an inaccuracies email to the site. should be corrected.

Team Cards do not get links to players unless every player is identified. Site rules.

I informed them.  They have a least 4 team cards not listed with HOF players or coaches.  They added the reds since I told them but don't have yet Oakland St. Louis and Atlanta.  I just told them of those. Pretty easy stuff. Surprised they missed so many.  I'm still looking and will look at other years also

Any changes that were made have been reverted. They don't belong on Team Cards.

For this list
https://www.tcdb.com/List.cfm/lid/11080/MLB-Team-Hall-of-Fame-Chicago-Cubs?PageIndex=5
I went down a Google Fu rabbit hole to find anything about long time Wrigley Field clubhouse manager Yosh Kawano appearing on a card of any type.

There was a Cubbie fan page that said he was on the team photo used on this Topps card
https://www.tcdb.com/ViewCard.cfm/sid/76/cid/19136/1975-Topps-638-Chicago-Cubs-/-Jim-Marshall

So I used it.  But Kawano is the issue with why Admin is a stickler to the "no tags" rule on these cards.  

Unless you really do have the time and desire to research EVERY clubhouse and training staff, EVERY administration member, EVERY stadium staff member, etc that wound up on an official team photo that wound up being used as a trading/collectable card that ended up getting indexed on this site.  And then following all that up by creating accurate PIDs for them all, it's not a task that should be for the taking.

I received an update on this one that linking of some players in a group photo is allowed only if the player(s) can be clearly identified. Assuming someone is in the photo just because they were on the team that year isn't enough to link them.

Gotcha. I'll look again when I can at 73 and 74 team cards.  Some were obvious such as Morgan sparky and bench in the reds team card.  Almost Positive Perez is in the middle back row but am not 100% sure.  I'll look at others and advise when I can. Thanks 

Thanks for the update on this. I guess the rules have changed/been clarified since I last heard. Good to know!