Topps did a lot of interesting things in marketing their products.
The 1979 Topps baseball sell sheets for wax packs, rack packs, and supermarket 3-paks (aka wax trays) all feature the same image of Doug Griffin on the flyer. The thing is, he barely played for the Red Sox after 1975, and Topps didn’t even make a card for him after 1977.
Griffin wore #2 before Jerry Remy and was released in early 1977 after playing only five games and never playing again in the majors.
So Topps used a circa 1973/1974 image of a former player to advertise a 1979 product.
Nevertheless, it is a great photo that matches that marketing tagline of “…going all the way!” and “having lightning reflexes and precision at third saving runs” (even though Griffin played second base).
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