Like Upper Deck Vintage, Fleer Tradition often stole from Topps designs. The 2000 set is a ripoff of 1954 Topps. I don't have many '54s but managed to find a team match with #202 - Pirates Bob Purkey and Pat Meares. The fielding poses are even kind of similar from card to card.
It was tough to find a good connection between these two. In 1965, Purkey was a St. Louis Cardinal, where one of his teammates was a rookie named Steve Carlton. Carlton's last season was with the 1988 Twins, managed by Tom Kelly, who also managed Meares when he made his big league debut with the Twins in 1993.
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