1930s New York Yankees Spring training footage.

[Brian Van Horn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4iwfqcwvjw

[Leon]

That was actually really good. How they did the coloring of the film is fantastic. Well worth a few minutes of watching. Lou at a about 440, was interesting in purple.
thanks for posting it.
.

and a card...

[JollyElm]

This part of the video sent me spiraling down a rabbit hole...

yankeesselkirk#3.jpg

Who in high heck was wearing #3 on the Yanks?

Only seconds before, the video was full of Babe Ruth footage...but then it suddenly skipped forward a little into the future and some skinny lefty replaced 'The Bambino'??
Whuh???

Turns out that the season following Ruth's departure, George Selkirk was already outfitted in the hallowed #3 uniform.
Stunning.

Didn't we all think there was a respectful 'mourning' period for the venerated number when 'The Babe' left town?
There is literally an infinite amount of other numbers to choose from (size limits would dictate that the highest number you would be able to fit on the back of a uniform would probably be nine digits, but I digress),
but when the 1935 season started BOOM!!! George was already wearing #3, as if the greatest player to walk the Earth didn't make that numeral famous???

It all comes to this. The Yankees regularly handed out the venerated number right up until Babe Ruth passed away in 1948, and then it was finally retired.

Here's who donned it:
George Selkirk (1935-1942)
Bud Metheny (1943-1946)
Roy Weatherly (1946)
Ed Bockman (1946)
Frank Colman (1947)
Allie Clark (1947)
Cliff Mapes (1948)

(Alert: early on, there was also a player wearing #7, but I'm doing everything I can not to also venture down that rabbit hole. Life's too short. Oh, screw it! I'm going...)