July 16th, 1977. Duke Snider, Joe DiMaggio, Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle all make an appearance together at Old Timer’s day during All-Star Game weekend. Seeing all four of these legends together must have been quite an unreal experience.
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1931. Lou Gehrig dives headfirst into third base against the Chicago White Sox. What I love about this photo is that Gehrig is sliding headfirst opposed to feet first. This is something you don’t see often in old photo and videos. In addition, I’m a big fan of the navy blue White Sox road uniforms from this era.
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Johnny Walker, Tillie Walker, and Frank Walker of the 1920 Philadelphia Athletics. I came across this photo recently and fell in love with it. It’s a great photo and the Walker trio are wearing amazing uniforms. Unfortunately I was a little disappointed to learn that none of these guys were related.
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1957. Tommy Lasorda of the Los Angeles Angels of the old Pacific Coast League. While it may be odd to not see Lasorda wearing the usual Dodger/Montreal Royals blue and white, the Angels were actually an affiliate of the Dodgers in 1957 so it’s not all that weird in retrospect.
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Recently, I came across a photo of Joe DiMaggio playing for a team called the “Dons” and did a write up on HERE as it was quite interesting to me. Well, I came across another photo of him in a Dons uniform and this one is even cooler. I’m still leaning towards the uniform being that of the University of San Francisco’s Baseball team, but I very well could be wrong.
