Vintage equipment: 1962 Topps

A couple of more cards with interesting equipment from the 1962 set . . . 

The '62 Walter Alston is one of the great manager cards of all time, with Smokey posing with a bunch of bats in what looks like a broom closet. If he looks like he's grimacing in pain, it might be because at least one bat is poking him in the stomach. Unfortunately, only one bat has a number visible on the knob. It appears to be #30, the late, great Maury Wills. Wills famously didn't have a card in the set until Topps created a fake card for the '75 MVP subset, but he makes a bit of a cameo appearance on this card. (Wills's name is also on the NL hitting leaders and Dodgers team card. I guess it's also in the team photo on the latter.)

Julio Gotay's glove looks like it was colored with a marker. I don't know why, and I couldn't find any other photos of him with a glove. Certainly an unusual look.