Head grafting can be a tricky business
The Big M having been traded from Toronto to Detroit late in the hockey-card production cycle, there were no photos of him in a Red Wings uniform for the 1967-68 offerings. Or something like that. So the good folks at Topps decided to, well, you can see the laughable results.
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Back when he was with the Maple Leafs, Mahovlich was the subject of a between-periods feature on the very first broadcast of “Hockey Night in Canada” I ever saw.
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