Yellow, It's Me

An update post today kids, as some bits o'info have flowed in on 1974 Baseball team card markings covered here a month ago.

Here's a copy of the Red Sox "dot" team card from '74, as forwarded by Keith Olbermann. The offending blip is left of the team name:

Two points: that missing patch of sky looks like a spot of the card was lost; this is not indicative of how the dot variations look.  Also, something else is amiss, namely the left edge of that photo, which looks that way on many of the examples of the card I've seen, dot or no dot:

The problem seems to be a leftward shift in the yellow ink pass, this closeup reveals a yellow halo around the heads of the players and you can see the yellow bar has been pushed outside the outer black neatline:

1974 is not a year known for sharp, well-defined images but that's pretty bad.  Some Red Sox team cards came through ok though, although that gnarly strip of fuzz hard left in the image remains, so that seems to be a prep or proofing problem:

I do find it interesting that the three cards that have markings on their front all have yellow frame lines or team names (Pittsburgh has both, Oakland just one-the frame line). If I did this right, these team cards also all have yellow present:

Yellow Team Name: New York Yankees, Cleveland Indians, Houston Astros

Yellow Frame Line: Kansas City Royals, Chicago White Sox, Philadelphia Phillies, San Diego Padres

I don't know if any of this is significant or not but it may help narrow down the potential pool of marked team cards in 1974.