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I'm not sure how much longer I can keep this thread going. The boards were rather dead so I started it more than a year ago to celebrate my 50 years of collecting and I have posted most every other day as I've gone through the cards I have from the past 70+ years. I've thrown in random posts of different themes and of course posts of so many of the different players that I collect. Most of the player cards I already had scanned because I feature them on my website and it's been fun going through my collection scanning in other oddball items and food issues. I've made my way up through the year 2020 and will hold off on posting my 2021 cards until later since I don't have that many yet. I still have a bunch of players that I collect that I haven't featured yet and will continue to post them. I'll try to keep coming up with different "themes" just to break up the monotony of the players and will take suggestions on that front if there's something you'd like to see.

That being said, here is a "theme" for today's post. Often times baseball card companies get their player photos mixed up or they just plain get duped. Today, just for fun, I am posting nine cards from my collection that all feature a mistaken identity.

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1963 Topps #113 Don Landrum UER/Photo is actually Ron Santo (Over a nine-year career with the Phillies, Cardinals, Cubs and Giants, Don put together a less than mediocre season's worth of stats including a .234 lifetime batting average to go with 12 home runs and 75 RBI. Only problem with this card is, that's not Don. Instead it pictures HOFer Ron Santo.)
1966 Topps #447 Dick Ellsworth UER/Photo actually/Ken Hubbs (What's worse than being mistaken for the wrong player on your card? Being mistaken for a deceased player. Back to the Cubbies for this one. Dick Ellsworth pitched parts of 14 seasons in the Majors but on this card, the late Ken Hubbs who had died unexpectedly two years earlier in a plane crash is featured.)
1969 Topps #653 Aurelio Rodriguez RC/UER Photo is/Angels batboy Leonard Garcia (This card features then Angels' batboy Leonard Garcia instead of Rodriguez.)

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1973 Topps #360 Joe Rudi UER/Photo actually/Gene Tenace (This is probably the only case of mistaken identity to appear on an "action" card. Joe Rudi was a star on the World Championship A's teams of the early 1970s but so was Gene Tenace who is pictured here being congratulated by two of his teammates, neither of which is Rudi, after slugging a home run.)
1982 Fleer #207 Rodney Scott UER/Photo actually/Tim Raines (Here's another case where a future HOFer was mistaken for another player. Rodney Scott was known as "Cool Breeze" and he played for the Royals, Expos, A's, Cubs and Yankees but this isn't him on this card. Both Fleer and Donruss were notorious for their multiple mistakes the first couple of years after they got back into the business of releasing baseball cards due to their rush to get product out. This card actually features Scott's teammate, HOFer Tim "Rock" Raines.)
1985 Donruss #424A Tom Seaver ERR/Photo actually/Floyd Bannister (Here's a case where another player was mistaken for a HOFer. Donruss actually went back and corrected this card once they realized that this was lefty Floyd Bannister pictured and not the great Tom Seaver who was right-handed.)

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1990 Donruss Bonus MVP's #BC12A J.Smoltz ERR Glavine (I don't know if there ever was another card that mistook two HOFers for each other but this one from Donruss pictures Tom Glavine as John Smoltz. They really didn't even look alike.)
1995 Topps Traded #12T J.LeBron RC UER Beltran (This is Carlos Beltran's rookie card although the name reads Juan LeBron. Likewise LeBron is pictured on Beltran's card from the same set. Way to go Topps!)
2001 Bowman Chrome #259 Miguel Cabrera UER/Denny Bautista pictured (Topps screwed up again on Miguel Cabrera's Bowman rookie card by featuring Denny Bautista. Denny pitched for six teams in six years, none of which were the Marlins, before heading overseas to play in Japan. He was a teammate of Cabrera with the Tigers in 2008.)