Earliest smiles in baseball cards

[Mark]

Originally Posted by ValKehl

If you had knocked in the winning run in the 12th inning of the 7th Game of the 1924 WS (making WaJo the winning pitcher in relief) for the Washington Senators first (and only) WS Championship in your first season in MLB, after just being acquired on August 8th from Sacramento (PCL) (for $50,000 & outfielder Wid Matthews) by Clark "The Old Fox" Griffith, you too would be smiling when your photo was being taken for your 1925 Exhibit card!

Great exhibit card! He deserves lots of credit for that victory, even if credit is often given to a pebble in front of Lindstrom.

[ValKehl]

Originally Posted by Mark

Great exhibit card! He deserves lots of credit for that victory, even if credit
is often given to a pebble in front on Lindstrom.

Mark, you are absolutely correct. In fact, the Senators tied the game in the 8th inning when a similar occurrence happened - "I bounced a lucky hit over Lindstrom's head with the bases full" said Bucky Harris in his biography entitled "Playing The Game" that he wrote after the 1924 season. The baseball gods were certainly kind to the Senators in the 7th Game of the 1924 WS (but not so in the 7th Game of the 1925 WS).

[lowpopper]

This is a great topic