April pickups

[Scott Garner]

Here are a couple of great photos that I just picked up from net54's Lance Fittro:

1) HOF Satchel Paige pitching in relief of HOF Bob Feller 1948.
Sweet image of Satch!

2) Type II photo of Johnny Vander Meer and Babe Ruth on the bench prior to Vandy's 2nd consecutive no-hitter on 6/15/38.

BTW, in addition to being a cool image, this photo provided a photo match to the dugout featured in the William C. Greene Type I photo that net54's Graig Kreindler painted for me in 2012. The splintered board pictured just to the right of Vandy's head in the Vandy/ Babe photo is an exact photo match to the board to the left of Vandy in the William C. Green photo. Mystery solved, my painting is of Vandy in the Ebbets Field visitor dugout.

I'm pretty certain now that this photo was taken on 6/17/38, two days after the second no-hitter. I believe that Greene actually shot the photo of Vandy w/ Babe as well.