I don't know why I was surprised

 

I recently returned to my plan to chase down the Dodgers I'm missing in old Heritage sets.

 

In almost all cases these are short-prints, and I quickly lose enthusiasm after seeing prices and drop the chase for months before coming back to it. But this time when I visited, the prices weren't bad -- it's just there weren't a lot available.

 

I added the Kaz Ishii short-print from 2004 Heritage. Look at him roll his eyes at those short-printing ways.

 

 

I also added another famous Japanese pitcher for the Dodgers, maybe you heard of him. Heritage short-printed his card, too, in 2005 Heritage.

 

While I was searching for other Heritage SPs from this time period I happened across an insert from 2005 that I didn't have, so I threw that in my cart and called it a night.

 

 

This card recognizes his two home runs on the final day of the 1956 season that clinched the pennant for the Dodgers.

 

 

 I knew the photo used on the front seemed familiar to me, so I looked around and it took a matter of seconds to find what I was looking for.

 

 

This is an insert from 2004 Heritage, which I also own. It recognizes Snider's home run ways in the 1955 World Series, using the same photo -- a photo purported to have been taken, by the 2005 insert, during the final game of the regular season in 1956, a year later.

 

So, uh, which photo doesn't go with the factoid?

 

Don't bother looking online for the answer. The picture isn't on Getty Images and searching pictures via Google is now a fool's errand -- unless you have a lot of time on your hands.

 

Fortunately, my baseball cards continue to turn up answers!

 

 

Here is a card from the 1995 Topps Archives set with the same picture (but a base path has been drawn in) and it says it was taken during Game 5 of the 1955 World Series.

 

 

There is all the game information. So there you go, that's a photo from 1955, not 1956. The 2005 Heritage set just reused the same photo to fit its needs.

 

I suppose the 1995 Archives photo could have been repurposed from 1956, or even from 1952, but this seems more like a Topps thing from the last 25 years (though there are plenty of examples of Topps photo trickery from the '60s that Roy Carlson has dug up).

 

In short, I was a bit surprised, but I really shouldn't have been.