Sports Cards--Bicycle Spokes Beware!

If a player was traded to another team, Topps would give the player's hat and sometimes uniform a makeover right atop the image instead of drumming up new artwork.

Sometimes, those photos were flawed as well—players played tricks on the photographers, causing misidentifications and other assorted bloopers, including players posing out of position and, in one case, with his pants' fly undone. Egads!