Stumped again

I know I am the last person on earth to figure this out, but somebody has got to tell me: how did they pull off this photo?

I will gladly admit that I have no ability to decipher things like this. I suck at puzzles. I can't figure out the most basic magic tricks. I can't even see the 3-D effect when looking at one of those Magic Eye images.

This card is a 1993 Upper Deck card of Mike Perez, holding a 1993 Upper Deck card of Mike Perez, which features Mike Perez, holding a 1993 Upper Deck card of Mike Perez, and so on, and so on, and so on. It's been featured on the blogs several times. Most recently it was on Dinged Corners. And someone was nice enough on that post to reveal the name for the phenomenon shown on the card. It's called lenticular something or other. I think. Maybe I screwed that up. I just tried searching for the post and couldn't find it.

But the name isn't that important to me. What is important to me is the question I ask after every magic trick. How the hell did they do that? Someone please tell idiot boy. He just wants to learn.

There have been a number of other cards over the years in which I have been stumped by what I saw in the photo, and have never figured out the answer. None are as vexing as the Perez card to me, but I'm still left wondering about them years and years later.

For instance, why did the Red Sox put photos of players who couldn't make the team photo shoot in tiny portrait boxes hovering over the rest of the team, as if they were dead? Couldn't they just leave them out like other teams did?

Someone has to know what that building is behind Carlton Fisk. I think I have been trying to figure that out since the first year I started collecting cards. Is it a hotel? An office building?
A soul-less corporation?

And perhaps someone could tell me whether Mike Griffin has a skin condition, or suffered a strange sunburn or if Topps simply mucked up the production of the photo (click on the photo for a larger image). If it's just freckles or something, maybe Griffin could have taken some legal action. Because that is not a flattering photo in the least.

Those are just some of the card questions that have been keeping me awake for the last 30-plus years. Maybe some of you have some answers, and I can finally get some sleep.