and yet he appears to be uniformly dark in this 1977 image:
guess he not only faded, but his body shrunk as he aged.
Remove the regular exposure to the sun, and his skin returns back to the much lighter shade we see in his early childhood pics as well as the contrast in the other pic of him (on the beach in HI?) recently.
He and the boy to his left were photoshopped into this picture. Their jersey’s are different than everyone else’s.