runningshoes' Classic Photo Thread

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I created a similar thread a few years back with cubshub hosting the photographs, but he was hacked and they disappeared. Now that I have time, I'm going to recreate the thread, but instead of having them hosted, I'll save them directly to Baseball Fever. That should prevent them from disappearing again. I'll identify players, places and times where I'm able. If I'm having difficulty, please feel free to help me out. I'm not sure if these photographs exist elsewhere in the baseball photography forum, but if they do, please let me know and provide a link to the photo. I'm not sure if Bill saved any of them when they were up before, but I had only posted a small number of the ones I have.


I'll start out with a photograph of Al Simmons, Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth and Jimmie Foxx at the Polo Grounds during the 1934 All Star Game.

Carl Hubbell struck out these four future Hall of Famers, and Joe Cronin, consecutively during the first and second innings to set an all star game record. I don't know if this record still stands. If anyone knows, please let us know. Thanks

The American League won the game 9-7

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Members of the 1917 Cleveland Indians do close-order drilling. Most teams used bats in place of rifles, but here the players are using actual rifles. The St. Louis Browns won the $500 American League President Ban Johnson provided for the best close-order drill, although only 13 Browns enlisted during World War I. The Detroit Tigers contributed the most in the league with 25. The Brooklyn Dodgers and the Pittsburgh Pirates tied for the most in the National League with 18 enlistees, while the Cincinnati Reds provided only six.

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Hank Aaron and Harvey Kuenn before the second 1960 All Star Game at Yankee Stadium.

Starting in 1955, fans voted Aaron to 20 straight all star teams.

Kuenn played for Detroit Tigers (1952–59), Cleveland Indians (1960), San Francisco Giants (1961–65), Chicago Cubs (1965–66) and Philadelphia Phillies (1966). After retiring, he served as the Milwaukee Brewers interim manager in 1975 and as manager in 1982, taking the Brewers to their only World Series appearance. Kuenn died in 1988. He has a plaque at Miller Park.

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Ted Williams with 3-year-old Patricia Ann Lewis in a photograph from 1944. I don't know where it was taken. Lewis was born at Pearl Harbor just before the Japanese attack and was evacuated with her mother shortly after.

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In 1948 Cleveland Indians owner Bill Veeck purchased Luke Easter's contract from the Homestead Grays. Easter started the 1949 season in the minors after suffering a knee injury. He was brought up at the end of the season and the Indians were so impressed, they traded all star first baseman Mickey Vernon to make room for 34-year-old Easter the following season. After three solid seasons, Easter's knee problems and age brought his major league carer to an end. He died in 1979 at the age of 63.

The photograph was obviously taken at Cleveland Municipal Stadium, but I'm not sure of the year.

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Future Hall of Famers Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker and Eddie Collins helped the Philadelphia Athletics to a second place finish in 1928.

This was Cobb's and Speaker's last major league season. Collins would play in only nine games in the next two seasons before retiring.

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Joe Cronin played for The Washington Senators from 1928 to 1934. I don't know the date of this photograph.

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Josh Gibson of the Negro National League's Homestead Grays rounds third at Washington's Griffith Stadium.

Gibson, known as "the black Babe Ruth," played for the Grays from 1930 to 1931, 1937 to 1939 and 1942 to 1946. He is considered one of the best catchers and hitters to have played in any league. He died from a stroke at the age of 35 in 1947, only three months before Jackie Robinson first took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Thanks to BSmile for dating the photograph.

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Jerome "Dizzy" Dean throwing during spring training in 1938.

Dean is the last National League pitcher to win 30 games in a season, accomplishing the feat in 1934 with the St. Louis Cardinals. He won 28 games the following year and 24 the year after that.

He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1953.

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74-year-old manager Cornelius McGillicuddy ("Connie Mack") puts the Philadelphia Athletics through their training paces in Mexico City in 1937. Mack was hit in the right shin by a ball that spring and was injured so painfully that he was taken by train to a hospital on a stretcher.

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(From left) Bill Killefer, Ed Burns, Joe Oeschger, George "Possum" Whitted and Ed Rixley relaxing during Spring training in St Petersburg in 1915.

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Detroit Tigers' Manager Hughie Jennings and Tiger's 3Bman George Moriarty confer with New York Highlanders player/manager Hal Chase and umpire Tom Connolly at Hilltop Park in 1911.

Thanks to GaryL for Identifying George Moriarty.

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St. Louis Cardinals player/manager Miller Huggins and New York Giants manager John McGraw confer with umpire Bill Brennan at the Polo grounds in 1913.

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Babe Ruth batting at Huggins/Stengel Field in St Petersburg Florida in 1928.

Thanks to Babefan for providing date and location.

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Members of the National League Pennant winning Brooklyn Robins. (from left) Jake Daubert, George Cutshaw, Ivy Olson and Harry Mowrey.

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Pete Alexander warming up at Wrigley Field 1922.

I've dated this Photograph based on his uniform. The 1921 uniform was not quite so white. If anyone has a different opinion, don't be afraid to say so.

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Washington Senators right fielder Gene Woodling watches one of Roger Maris' 61 home runs drop into the seats at Yankee Stadium in 1961.

Woodling played for many teams during his 17 years in the majors, including a six year stint with the New York Yankees from 1949 to 1954. He was involved in a record 17 player deal that sent him from the Yankees to the Baltimore Orioles where he spent the 1955 season before moving on to the Cleveland Indians. He retired a Met in 1962 at the end of the team's inaugural season. His most productive season was in Cleveland where he hit 19 home runs and drove in 78 runs in 1957.

Woodling is known for having helped bring the pension fund to major league players. He died in a nursing home in June 2001 at the age of 78.

Anyone who can provide the date of this photograph will get a special mention.

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First in line fans wait outside the Polo Grounds to get tickets for the 1954 World Series between the New York Giants and the Cleveland Indians.

The Giants swept the series in four games to win their first championship in 21 years. The heavily favoured Indians won 111 games during the regular season and had never been swept in the World Series before this. Game one of the series featured "The Catch" made by Willie Mays with his back to the infield off a Vic Wertz drive deep to center field. The series is also remembered for Giants utility player Dusty Rhodes' clutch hitting in three of the four games. This was to be Giants manager Leo Durocher's only World Series victory.

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Boston's famous Royal Rooter march around Fenway Park prior to game five of the 1912 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Giants.

Because of a tie, the series went to eight games and when the Rooters showed up for the game they expected to occupy their usual seats. They were outraged to find they had been sold to others. The Rooters demonstrated noisily outside the park and held crowd numbers down to 17,000; half of what the park held. The Red Sox won the game , and the series, dramatically after coming from behind to beat the Giants 3-2 in a game that featured a pitching duel between Christy Mathewson and Hugh Bedient.

The game also featured a Fred Snodgrass' error that went down in history as "the $30,000 muff", a reference to the difference in the winner's and loser's share...... $29,514.

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All three of New York's teams are represented in this photograph most likely taken in 1942. (From left) New York Giants' Mel Ott, Brooklyn Dodgers' Billy Herman and New York Yankees' Bill Dickey.

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Several Chicago White Sox players gather around the cage to watch Mickey Mantle take batting practice before a game at Yankee Stadium sometime in 1962.

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Frankie Frisch, (left) Casey Stengel (center) and Frank "Pancho" Snyder inspect a shipment of new bats at spring training in San Antonio circa 1923.

Thanks to GaryL for indentifying Frank Snyder.

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Based on his uniform, I'm quite confident this photograph of Cobb was taken in 1921 at Navin Field (Tiger Stadium). If anyone feels or knows different, please let us know. Special thanks to Badge714 for identifying the other gentleman as William Jennings Bryan.

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It looks like the ball is going to get to Ron Santo's glove before Rusty Staub can reach the bag.

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Eddie Collins, Connie Mack and Ty Cobb visiting the Reach baseball factory in Philadelphia in 1927.

Reach produced American League baseballs beginning in 1901 and by 1927 the factory made around three million balls a year, not all American League balls, of course. Spalding, which made National League balls, and Reach made major league baseballs until Rawlings took over both leagues in 1970.

If you have an original Reach American League ball it could, depending on the logo stamp and condition, fetch you between 500 and 1500 dollars today.

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Jackie Robinson at the plate during the 1951 Hall Of Fame game at Doubleday Field in Cooperstown.

The Brooklyn Dodgers were playing the Philadelphia Phillies that day. Jimmy Dykes was in his first year managing the Athletics after taking over from Connie Mack who had managed the team for fifty years.

I couldn't find anything about the game itself. Maybe someone has proquest (Bill) and could find out for us.

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New York Yankees manager Joe McCarthy looks on while Joe DiMaggio presents Post Master General James Farley's son with one of his bats.

Farley served as PG under President Franklin Roosevelt while simultaneously serving as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1933 to 1940.

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Mr Met was first unveiled to the public in 1963 on the cover of programs and scorecards while the Mets were still playing in the Polo Grounds. When the team took to the field at Shea Stadium for the first time in 1964, fans were introduced to the live costumed version. The Mets stopped using this mascot in the mid-1970's and he didn't appear again until almost 20 years.

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Members of the Washington Senators line up from shortest to tallest for this photograph taken at in 1909 at National Park. Walter Johnson (far right) is wearing a suit, overcoat and bowler.

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Gabby Hartnett (left), Tex Carelton (right) and other Chicago Cubs celebrate their 100 win season. The Cubs defeated the St. Louis Cardinals to win the National League Pennant, but went on to lose the World Series to the Detroit Tigers four games to two.

Anyone recognize the other Cubs?

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Player/manager Tris Speaker (front row center) and the 1920 World Series Champion Cleveland Indians.

The Indians beat the Brooklyn Robins seven games to two in the best of nine series. The Tribe won the championship in memory of Ray Chapman, the team's shortstop who was killed earlier in the season by a wild pitch. The Indians' appearance also spared the baseball world from a Chicago White Sox series appearance. Several of the Sox players were embroiled in the scandal that resulted from several of it's players throwing the 1919 World Series.

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Brooklyn Dodgers' fans waiting in line for bleacher-seat tickets to go on sale before game one of the 1952 World Series against the three time defending New York Yankees.

The Yankees trailed three games to two before coming back to win the last two games. Yankees manager Casey Stengel became only the second skipper in major league history to win four consecutive titles. Former Yankees manager Joe McCarthy was first, winning his four from 1936 to 1939.

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Since it is the 57th anniversary of his death today, I though a photograph of Charles Albert “Chief” Bender would be a nice tribute.

Bender, pictured here as a coach for the Chicago White sox in 1925, was a standout pitcher starting in 1903 with the Philadelphia Athletics until his retirement in 1917 with the Philadelphia Phillies. He made a cameo appearance on the mound for the Sox while coaching there. He won 212 games during his career, including a no-hitter against the Cleveland Naps in 1910.

Connie Mack kept Bender on the Athletics' payroll as a scout, minor league manager and coach from 1926 until Mack retired in 1950.

Bender is often credited as being the first pitcher to use the slider, or “nickel change” as it was known in the early part of the 20th Century

He was elected to the Hall Of Fame in 1953, shortly before his death the following year.

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Babe Ruth manages to get under Heinie Groh's tag after tagging up on a fly ball to center field off the bat of Willy Pipp in the eighth inning of game two of the 1922 World Series.

The game between the New York Yankees and the New York Giants ended in a 3-3 tie after being called because of darkness. Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis was not happy with the decision because the sun was still in the sky. Landis, whose office controlled gate reciepts, ordered that the over $120,000 brought in that day be donated to World War I charities in order to deflect any hint of impropriety. Some believed both teams allowed the tie in order to increase gate receipts.

Ruth had a dismall series, batting only .118 and the Yankees lost in five games.

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Giants captain Frankie Frisch (left) and Giants teammates welcome Casey Stengel (centre) to spring training in 1922. Stengel, whose nickname was "Dutch" before being called "the Old Professor" was never a star during his playing days but he had a flair for the dramatic as witnessed by his two world series home runs in 1923. Stengel began his career as an outfielder for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1912. He left for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1918 and went on to play for the Philadelphia Phillies, New York Giants and the Boston Braves. He played in three World Series.


Stengel was a lighthearted, feewheeling, old-time ball player who, while never a dissipater, took his fun where he found it.

Frank Graham

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Charles Albert "Chief" Bender, left, won 212 games in a Hall Of Fame career with the Philadelphia Athletics, Baltimore Terrapins, Philadelphia Phillies and the Chicago White Sox from 1903 to 1925. Here he gives counsel to Harold "Prince Hal" Schumacher during spring training in 1931. Shumacker went 1-1 that year and 5-6 in 1932, but the following season the 22-year-old won 19 games to help the Giants to the National League pennant and a World Series victory over the Washington Senators.

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The quintessential power hitter, "Killer" slammed 573 home runs and drove in 1,584 runs during a twenty-two year career with the Washington Senators and Minnesota Twins. He never hit fifty round trippers in a single season, but topped forty an astonishing eight times. Killebrew was enshrined in the Hall Of Fame in 1984.

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My idea of a real batter is a man who can choke up on the bat when he feels like it or slug from the handle when neccesary......A combination of proper handling of the bat and good footwork will go a long way to offset any system of pitching that has ever been devised.

Ty Cobb

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Chicago Cubs manager Gabby Hartnett signs a ball for Al Capone. Upon hearing of this event, Commissioner Landis ordered Hartnett not to sign anything else for Capone.


Judge, if it's your rule, it's ok by me, but I'm not explaining it to him. Next time you see him, you explain it to him.

Gabby Hartnett

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Buck Leonard crosses the plate after hitting a home run at Newark's Ruppert Stadium in 1943. Jackie Robinson was only four years away from breaking the colour barrier in baseball but it might as well have been 100 years for Leonard. He was was 40-years-old in 1947.


I guess they thought about bringing me up at the time, but I was too old. Cool Papa Bell, Satchel and me - it was too late for us.

Buck Leonard

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Gabby Hartnett, (left) Tex Carleton (right) and other Chicago Cubs celebrate their 100 win season in 1935. They wound up the season winning twenty-one straight games to edge out the St. Louis Cardinals, but lost to the Detroit Tigers 4-2 in the World Series. The 1930's were a good decade for the Cubs, but they couldn't pull off a World Series win. They were swept in both 1932 and 1938 by the New York Yankees.

Can anyone help indentify the other Cubs?

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Roy Campanella looks on as Joe DiMaggio crosses the plate after hitting a home run in game five of the 1949 World Series. The Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 10-6 that day to capture the championship, their first of five straight titles under new manager Casey Stengel.

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Cleveland Indian fans look on as Tris Speaker gets a kiss from his mother to celebrate the Indians' World Series victory over the Brooklyn Robins in 1920.

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The Negro League All-Star Team during their postseason tour in Caracas, Venezuela in 1945. Included in the photo are Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella and Buck Leonard.

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19-year-old Cleveland Indians ace Bob Feller at home in Iowa with his sister Marguerite in 1937.

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Babe Ruth poses with an unknown boxer (Jack Dempsey?) in this undated photo.

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Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis looks none too pleased to be posing with Johnny Evers in this undated photo, circa 1922.

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18-year-old Harmon Killebrew poses during his first spring training with the Washington Senators in Winter Garden Florida in 1954. Killebrew played in only nine games for the Sens that season and only 104 during the next four, but in his first full season in 1959 he smashed 42 home runs and drove in 105 runs.

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Zack Wheat taking his cuts at Ebbets Field circa 1924. Wheat was a lifetime .317 hitter during his 19 year career, 18 of which he spent in Brooklyn where he amassed several team records. He drove in 2,884 runs and was elected to the Hall Of Fame in 1959.

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Al Rosen poses for the camera at Yankee Stadium in 1949. During his short, injury-plagued career, Rosen drove in over 100 runs five times (145 in 1953, the highest total of the 1950's) and won the American League MVP award in 1953 with an unprecedented unanimous vote. By 1956 back problems and leg injuries caught up with him and he retired at just 32. He might have been the greatest third baseman ever had he played a full career.

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Chicago Cubs Hack Wilson (left) and Rogers Hornsby inspect the bats at Wrigley Field in 1929.

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At 19, Hank Greenberg was the youngest player in the majors when he was called up to the Detroit Tigers in September 1930. He played in one game that season and only went to the plate once with no hit. in his second full season he hit .339 and helped the Tigers reach their first World Series in 25 years.

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Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis looks none too pleased to be posing with Johnny Evers in this undated photo, circa 1922.

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I have yet to see a photo of Landis looking pleased about anything.

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I have yet to see a photo of Landis looking pleased about anything.

This is about as close as you're going to get. It's the only time I've ever seen him with anything resembling a **** eating grin on his face.

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This is about as close as you're going to get....

Almost. It is pretty rare to find a picture of a smiling Judge Landis, but here's one with Babe Ruth and Bob Meusel, presumably around the time they were reinstated in 1922 (for barnstorming at the end of 1921).

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Johnny Leonard Roosevelt "Pepper" Martin Legs one out to reach first. Martin was a scrappy outfielder and third baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals during the "Gashouse Gang" years of the 1930's. Martin's game featured aggressive base running and speed, consistently legging out doubles and triples.

I researched the photo and have concluded it comes from Martin's one and only at bat in 1930. He didn't get a hit, so he must have reached base on an error.

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Bibb Falk played for the White Sox from 1920 to 1928 and the Cleveland Indians from 1929 to 1931.

Earl Sheely played for the White Sox from 1921 to 1927, the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1929 and the Boston Braves in 1931.

Willie Kamm played for the White Sox from 1923 to 1931 and the Cleveland Indians from 1931 to 1935. He was the dominant third baseman in the American League for most of his career.

If anyone can tell us from that dugout which park this photo was taken in, that would be majour bonus points.

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Boston Red Sox legend Ted Williams lends support to young slugger Jackie Jensen in this 1958 photo. Jensen was the American League's Most Valuable Player that year after hitting 35 home runs and leading the league with 122 runs batted in. Respected for his throwing arm, he won a Gold Glove Award and led the AL in assists and double plays twice. He retired in his early thirties as baseball expanded westward due to an intense fear of flying.

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Chicago Cubs player/manager Frank Chance at the Polo Grounds in 1910 before the 1911 fire. (Thank God for Dressed To The Nines)

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Cleveland Naps second baseman Napoleon Lajoie at Comiskey Park around 1911.

Thanks to kfeser for identifying the park.

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Philadelphia Phillies ace Grover Cleveland "Pete" Alexander warming up at the Polo Grounds 1913.

Thanks to kfeser for identifying the park.

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Washington Senators Manager Gil Hodges takes a cut before a game with the Minnesota Twins at District of Columbia Stadium (now RFK Stadium), circa 1965. After 11 games with the Mets in 1963, during which he batted .227 with no homers, the injury plagued former Brooklyn Dodgers star first baseman was traded to the Washington Senators so he could replace Mickey Vernon as manager. Hodges immediately announced his retirement from playing in order to focus on his new job.

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Chuck Klein around 1929.

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Luke Easter around 1952.

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All three New York Managers circa 1945.

From Left, Joe McCarthy, Mel Ott and Leo Durocher.

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He looks relatively happy here.

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Frank "Home Run" Baker earned his nickname during the 1911 World Series when he hit a go-ahead home run off Rube Marquard in Game two, and a ninth inning game tying home run off Christy Mathewson in game three. By dead ball standards Baker was a great slugger. in 1912 he led the American League with ten home runs while only three AL teams hit more than twenty during the entire season. Baker was elected to the Hall Of Fame in 1955 and Lawrence Ritter and Donald Honig included him in their 1981 book The 100 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time.

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Hal Chase while playing for the Buffalo Buffeds of the Federal League in 1915. (ThanksDto7)

Chase was a great hitter and had the reputation of a peerless defensive player, but his legacy is tainted by a litany of corruption. He allegedly gambled on baseball games, and also engaged in suspicious play in order to throw games in which he played. Rumours of him being the middleman between the players and the gamblers in the Black Sox Scandal have always existed but have never been confirmed.

Lawrence Ritter and Donald Honig also included Chase in their book The 100 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time.

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Lefty Williams and Eddie Cicotte the year they agreed to throw the World Series.

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George "Buck" Weaver with a member of the Keio University Baseball Club in Japan during the Chicago White Sox and New York Giants' world tour in 1913. This uniform is not in the Dressed To The Nines database.


Every newspaper in Tokyo had from one to five staff at the game, and as for photographers, our National League would have to sit up nights passing rules against them. At every game in Keio there were at least twenty, and, what's more, they knew their business. They spotted the highlights in the game from the start. Speaker, Crawford, Scott, Weaver, Doolan, and Doyle "Spoiled" dozens of films during the matinees. As for McGraw, Comiskey, and Callahan, they were photographed in every pose except on their heads.

H. P. Burchell, New York Times

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Joe Jackson three years before being banned from baseball for life.

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Chick Gandil, who brought the seven other players into the Black Sox fold, in 1913 with the Washington Senators.

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Philadelphia Athletics battery Lefty Grove and Mickey Cochrane circa 1930.

The Pittsburgh Press Post, June 10, 1931

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Heinie Groh scores from second on a Irish Meusel bases loaded single to tie game one of the 1922 World Series in the eighth inning. Frankie Frisch is sliding into third. He scored moments later to give the Giants the win. The Giants won the series 5-4.

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In game five of the infamous 1919 World Series Hod Eller shut out the White Sox 5-0with nine strikeouts, including six consecutively, but after news of the scandal broke his achievement was tarnished. Known for his shine ball, he left the game at the age of twenty-six shortly after Kenesaw Mountain Landis outlawed freak pitches.

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Twenty-two-year-old New York Yankees rookie catcher Yogi Berra argues with an umpire in the bottom of the seventh inning during game three of the 1947 World Series at Ebbetts Field. Yoga had a dismal series batting just .158, but that was just the first of fourteen World Series Berra would appear in. His 259 at bats, seventy-one hits, ten doubles, twelve home runs, forty-one runs scored, thirty-nine rbi's and thirty two walks all rank in the top three in World Series history. The Yankees with their backs to the cameras are first baseman George McQuinn (foreground) and pitcher Joe Page. To Berra's right is Yankee manager Bucky Harris. The Dodger is pitcher Hugh Casey, who struck out.

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Chicago Cubs Ralph Kiner and Hank Sauer in 1953. Sadly, neither ever played in a World Series.

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Four stars from the 1944 World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals. From left, Whitey Kuroski, Marty Marion, Stan Musial, Ray Sanders.

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Detroit Tigers manager Hughie Jennings instructs an unidentified player on the finer art of sliding around 1914.

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Long time Baltimore Oriole Manager Earl Weaver. I have no idea when this was taken or what he was doing at the time.

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Hard to put a date to this photo but The Splendid Splinter looks like he's winding down his stellar career.

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The intimidating St. Louis Cardinals ace Bob Gibson pitching to an unknown New York Mets batter at Shea Stadium in either 1964 or '65.

Thanks to BSmile for identifying the approximate year and ballpark.

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Ruth never seems happy any time he had to pose with Gehrig.

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Jim Lemon, Bob Allison, Harmon Killebrew and Roy Sievers combined for 126 home runs and 339 RBI's in 1959 but the Washington Senators were never able to make the jump from contenders to champions.

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Buck Leonard and Tommy Louden At Washington's Griffith Stadium circa 1942.

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Thanks, I thought that might be a Mets or Braves uniform but I wasn't sure. I'm going to have to study up on ball parks.

The big clue for me was what appeared to be the Mets 1964-65 World's Fair Patch on the batter (albeit very blurry)...and the 410 marker behind Gibson confirmed it was Shea.

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Frankie Frisch (left) and members of the New York Giants pass a medicine ball during spring training in San Antonio, Texas in 1923.

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Frankie Frisch and Travis Jackson practice their exchange during the New York Giants' first spring training in Sarasota, Florida after moving from San Antonio, Texas after the 1923 season. .

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Cincinnati Reds left fielder Dick West shows Reds manager Bill McKechnie and other players how one should not slide into the bag while third baseman Bill Werber applies the tag in this 1939 spring training photo from Tampa, Florida.

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Stan Musial posing with three St. Petersburgh, Florida boys during the American Legion's nationwide Let's All Play Ball Week during spring training in 1956.

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Detroit native Eddie Cicotte played baseball in Georgia where he was a teammate of Ty Cobb. Both players were purchased by the Tigers and Cicotte made his big-league debut on September 3, 1905.

Here he warms up for the Chicago White Sox at New York's Hilltop Park in 1912. Thanks to Dto7 for the ballpark identification.

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George "Buck" Weaver, an outstanding fielder, was known as the only third baseman in the league Ty Cobb would not bunt against.

Here he is warming up in either 1913 or 1916. Ballpark experts know where this was taken?

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[Dto7]

Hilltop Park in New York is the ballpark for the Eddie Cicotte post.

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Hilltop Park in New York is the ballpark for the Eddie Cicotte post.

Once again, thank you.

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St Louis Cardinals second baseman Rogers Hornsby poses with team owner Sam Breadon in 1924. The following year Hornsby took over the managerial reigns as well as being an everyday player.

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Baltimore Oriole shortstop Luis Aparicio beats Minnesota Twins Catcher Earl Battey's tag at Municipal Stadium sometime in 1963.

When Aparicio retired in 1973, he was the all-time leader for most games played, assists and double plays by a shortstop and the all-time leader for putouts and total chances by an American League shortstop. His nine Gold Glove Awards set an American League record for shortstops. He was inducted to the Hall of Fame in 1984 and was the first Venezuela to earn that honour.

Battey played for the Chicago White Sox (1955–1959), Washington Senators (1960) and the Twins (1961–1967). In the early 60s, Battey was one of the American League's top catchers, earning three consecutive Gold Glove Awards between 1960 and 1962.

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George "Buck" Weaver, an outstanding fielder, was known as the only third baseman in the league Ty Cobb would not bunt against.

Here he is warming up in either 1913 or 1916. Ballpark experts know where this was taken?

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This is The Polo Grounds.