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An R311 mystery?
This is one of my favorite images in all of the gum issues. The fire power on this team leaves me in awe every time I dig it out.
Tonight I was taking a closer look, and something doesn't seem right. It looks like maybe some of the players's faces got superimposed with their own faces, just from different shots. Some of the ratios and expressions just seem off to me, plus it looks like the exposures on all their faces are a little different from each other. Also, has anyone noticed that the guy labeled as Greenberg looks a ton like Gehringer and the guy labeled as Gehringer looks nothing like Gehringer?
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Conor, very astute observation.
No way that Greenberg is actually Hank. The upper row picture sure does look like Gehringer. I guess I'm not familiar enough with what Tommy Bridges looks like to comment there...But where is Hank?
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All star
Looking up Greenberg's page on baseball reference, he wasn't on the 1935 all star team.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/p...reenha01.shtml He had amazing stats in both 1934 and 1935 but it doesn't show him as being an Allstar until 1937 More mysterious now?
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Apparently there was some controversy to Greenberg not being on the team. From SABR:
https://sabr.org/gamesproj/game/july...-win-cleveland ... "Cochrane picked his former teammate Jimmie Foxx as the third baseman and the Yankees’ Lou Gehrig to play first. This was a curious selection, as Foxx had played very little third base for the last five years. In fact, the most he’d played at the position in a season in the previous five years was 26 games in 1931. In 1935 Foxx had played just two games at third. Even more peculiar, Foxx was the only third baseman on the American League roster, and Gehrig was the only first baseman. [Not true--Bluege was a 3b and played the 9th inning there] Here was the controversy: Cochrane had left Tigers first baseman Hank Greenberg off the team. Greenberg was leading the league in home runs (25) and RBIs (103) at the All-Star break. (He ended the season leading the major leagues with 36 homers and 170 RBIs.) Gehrig at the break had less than half of Greenberg’s totals, 11 homers and 51 RBIs. Some argued that Greenberg had had a bad World Series in 1934 and would probably not respond well in a big game. The flip side of the argument was that Gehrig had gone hitless in his two All-Star Games, in addition to committing the only errors charged to the American League squad in both contests." BTW, the mystery Tiger kind of looks like Eldon Auker to me, although it would make more sense if it were Del Baker, who was a coach at the game and who also resembles the man pictured.
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Hank looking not happy...
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I'm pretty sure I'm right, which would mean that the far left guy here, claiming to be Bridges, is unknown. He is also the 5th in a Detroit uniform when I only see 4 Tigers on the team roster (Gehringer, Bridges, Cochrane and Rowe). Greenberg wasn't even on the team, so him being on there is flat out wrong.
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So the remaining mystery is, who is the fifth Tiger? Mike is right, could be Del Baker. Last edited by timn1; 11-03-2017 at 09:33 AM. |
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This REA '35 AS signed ball has Baker on it, as a coach. Auker was still playing in '35, and didn't make the team.
http://www.robertedwardauctions.com/...ehrig-program/ So it has Baker labeled as Bridges, Gehringer labeled as Greenberg, and Bridges labeled as Gehringer. Three mistakes, all with Detroit players. Baker is not mentioned at all, even though he's in the photo, and Greenberg is mentioned, even though he's not even on the team.
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Awwww
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