John....yeah the Conlon Cobb Sliding is an awesome shot, but was really cropped. Here's the original. I bet it was taken a few feet away from the 3rd base line. You could probably get a similar shot today with a cheap digital camera from good seats in the stands. Those guys really had skills back then. He had one shot at it with a manual focus large format camera. Not like today where cameras auto focus multiple frames per second.
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