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The Leslie Jones Boston Public Library Baseball Collection Photo Gallery
Click on any image below to see photos in full size and to start Photo Gallery:
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- Tommy Thompson, Billy Urbanski, Bob Smith, Leo Mangum, Rabbit Maranville, Duffy Lewis, Fred Frankhouse, Wally Berger
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- Wally Berger and Bill McKechnie
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- Ted Williams and Eddie Miller, 1939
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- Frank “Beauty” McGowan and RIck Ferrell, 1937
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- Earl Torgeson, 1947 ca.
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- Jimmie Wilson, with coach Hans Lobert (#50), Buck Jordan (#5), coach Dick Spaulding (facing camera), and trainer
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- Jim Tobin, Johnny Cooney, Max West
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- Ernie Lombardi, Clyde Kluttz, Phil Masi, 1942
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- Johnny Sain, 1942
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- Eddie Stanky, Jim Russell, Jeff Heath, Clint Conatser, Al Dark, 1948
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- Al Wright, Rabbit Maranville, Dick Gyselman
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- Vern Bickford, Ray Mueller, 1951
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- Mel Ott, Billy Urbanski, and Giant coach Tommy Clarke,1933
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- Phil Masi and Bob Elliott
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- Wes Ferrell, 1941
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- Jeff Heath, 1948
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- Harry Danning, Gus Mancuso, Gene Moore, 1937, Braves Field
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- Rabbit Warstler and Wally Berger
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- Al Lopez and Ben Cantwell, 1936
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- Tony Cuccinello and Vince DiMaggio, 1937
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- Al Simmons, 1939 (Leslie Jones photo)
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- Albie Fletcher and umpire Lou Goetz, 1937
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- Buck Jordan, Tony Cuccinello, Billy Urbanski, Pinky Whitney
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- Al Lopez led the White Sox to the 1959 pennant
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- Ralph Hodgin, Stan Andrews, Eddie Miller, Buddy Hassett, Phil Masi, Tom Early, Casey Stengel, 1939
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- Albie Fletcher
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- Tom Early and Casey Stengel
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- Pinky Higgins, Goose Goslin, Lou Gehrig, Earl Averill, Jimmie Foxx
The Leslie Jones Boston Public Library Baseball Collection, Part Two
As I mentioned in my Part One post about the Leslie Jones Boston Public Library Baseball collection, it’s full of about 3000 photos from mainly the 1930s and ‘40s taken by Boston Globe photographer Leslie Jones. Almost all were taken in either Fenway Park or in Braves Field.
Since the collection covers both the National League (the Braves and their NL opponents), and the American League (the Red Sox and their AL opponents), many lesser-known and largely forgotten players from both leagues are featured in the collection. When I was a member of the team identifying the players in the photos, it always gave me a nice feeling of satisfaction when I could positively identify some obscure, long-forgotten ballplayer from the ’30’s or ’40’s who would otherwise be totally lost to history.
In the featured photo above, we see a beautiful Don Stokes colorization of Lou Gehrig and Lefty Gomez with former Yankee teammate, Billy Werber from the Leslie Jones collection.
In the gallery I put together for this post, you’ll find a lot of guys I’ll bet you never heard of, but were still a part of the game from that long ago era. Check out my photo gallery tribute to some of the games lesser-knowns from one of baseball’s Golden Ages.
Gary Livacari
Photo Credits: All from Google search; Colorization by Don Stokes: https://www.facebook.com/Don-Stokes-Old-Time-Baseball-Colorizations-923346241033508/
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