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1939 Homestead Grays
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Spotlight on the Charles Conlon Baseball Collection
While taking my weekly look through the Charles Conlon baseball collection searching for photos of Joe DiMaggio, I came across this real beauty. It’s a Conlon speciality: a portrait photo of a baseball superstar. Here’s the interesting caption accompanying this photo of Joe DiMaggio from “The Big Show – Charles M. Conlon’s Golden Age Baseball Photographs”:
“With three days left in the 1932 season, shortstop Augie Galan of the San Francisco Seals asked his manager, former major league shortstop Ike Caveney, for permission to go on a trip to Hawaii. Permission was denied because Galan’s absence would leave the team one infielder short – until Seal’s outfielder Vince DiMaggio resolved the dilemma: ‘What’s the matter with my brother Joe? He’s a shortstop and a good one.’ Joe wasn’t much of a shortstop, but he hit a triple in his first professional at-bat, and in 1933 he batted safely in 61 consecutive Pacific Coast League games. Joe became a starting outfielder for the Seals, making his big brother expendable, and Vince was soon playing for the Hollywood Stars. Joe went on to become an American sports hero, a strange and lonely legend who eventually amassed a fortune through product endorsements and personal appearances, but by the 1970s, while the Yankee Clipper was selling Mr. Coffee on television, his brother Vince was selling Fuller Brushes door-to-door. “
I also stumbled upon a nice collection of 23 rarely-seen photos of DiMaggio from the Sporting News archive. I posted a couple of the good ones in the comments section. To see the entire collection, just click on the link below. I think you’ll enjoy it:
-Gary Livacari
Photo Credits: “The Big Show – Charles M. Conlon’s Golden Age Baseball Photographs”; and the Sporting News archives: http://
Information: Quote taken from the Conlon book mentioned above.
He looks a little like Michael Phelps in the photo where he has a shirt and tie on while standing in what looks like a kitchen.
This photo just exudes “The Fifties.”
Try the “Forties!”
Great stuff, Gary.
Thanks Larry…I’m having a lot of fun with it!