It's rare that a single card gives me two post ideas. Now consider that the card is this 1983 Topps Jeff Newman and the odds of that are incalculable. One of my very favorite parts of Topps Traded sets, especially those from the 1980s, is how they capture the passage of time, even if it's really only a year or half a year that's gone by. That passage is demonstrated in how players sometimes change their look. In the very hairy 1980s, that meant changes in facial hair and there was no better way to demonstrate that progression than in the Traded sets of 1983 and 1984, which each provided inset photos of the player in head shot form. I was reminded of this with Jeff Newman's two 1983 Topps cards. His 75th birthday was yesterday and I took the opportunity to showcase his different looks: Look at the drastic change in inset photos. It's almost as if Jeff Newman ducked into a bathroom stall, pulled out a razor and gave himself a trim, stuffed his Oakland A'...
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