Editing Topps (section)

===Coping with updated developments===
The pictures and information on baseball cards sold during one season came primarily from earlier seasons, so Topps used various tactics to give its cards a greater sense of staying current with the times. Before coming up with the idea of a "Traded" set, the company still tried to produce cards of players with their new team if they changed teams in the offseason. This was sometimes accomplished by showing the player without any team cap, or by [[airbrush]]ing out elements of the former team's logo on his uniform. Cards for rookies could also be prepared by airbrushing over their minor-league uniforms in photos.

In one case, Topps even got too far in front of events, as in 1974 it showed a number of players as being with the "Washington Nat'l Lea." franchise, due to expectations that the [[San Diego Padres]] would relocate to the vacant Washington, D.C., market. The team designation was the only change, as no new nickname for the franchise had been selected. When the move failed to materialize, Topps had to replace these with cards showing the players still as Padres.

On rare occasions, Topps has issued special cards for players who had either died or had been injured.  The 1959 set had card 550 as "Symbol Of Courage – [[Roy Campanella]]", with a color photo of the paralyzed former Dodger in his wheelchair and a [[black-and-white]] photo of him in uniform inserted to the upper left. The 1964 set issued cards for two recently deceased players: [[Ken Hubbs]] of the Cubs with a different "In Memoriam" front design compared to standard cards, and Colts pitcher [[Jim Umbricht]]'s regular card with a special note on the back about his April 1964 death from cancer.  In October 2006, Topps was prepping for its annual updated/traded card release, which featured [[Cory Lidle]] in a Yankees uniform.  After Lidle's tragic death, the cards were pulled and subsequently released with "In Memoriam" on its front.