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10th Anniversary photo
I recognize a few guys in the 10th anniversary photo.
Far left: Hal Woodeschick 2nd from Left: Dave Giusti 3rd from left: Don Larsen 5th from left: Mantle 6th from left: Ken Johnson I'm sure someone will chime in with the other two guys, who both look familiar. 
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Mantle was there because the first game was Yankees/Astros, and he hit the first homerun. At the end of the 10th anniversary photo in uniform is Dick Farrell, the starting pitcher in that game, and the pitcher Mantle hit the homer off .
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Thanks for the input. I'm putting on my detective coat and hitting the old interwebs to decipher the rest. I know NOTHiNG about photography. I'm going to see if I can have prints of all the negative developed.
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It looks like Roger Metzger standing behind the base at the kid's baseball clinic.
That dates those photos to the early 70's. The 10th Anniversary photo is a bit strange to me. The dome didn't open for baseball until 1965, although construction began in 1962. The players are not wearing 1975 Astros uniforms, which was the first year of those multi-colored striped monstrosities, so it is not ten years from opening. I suppose it's possible the photo was taken pre-season '75, which makes some sense as that was 10 yrs from when Mantle homered, and that the fugly uniforms were not unveiled for a few more weeks. The featured player with the glove looks very familiar-- he has kind of a scowl that I know I've seen on a 60's Topps baseball card. Still, to me he does not look like anyone who appeared in that first pre-season game, if this was some sort of reunion, which it likely was given the people in the photo (Although I don't know why some are wearing street clothes while others are wearing the new, double-knit Astros unis).
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