Cool baseball related photos

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Maury Wills with some of the bags he stole, 1960s.

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21 of 23 World Champion Giants prefer Camels.

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"Babe Ruth Steps From The Plate To The Microphone!" (Quaker Oats & NBC Radio Press Release - April 4, 1934)

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Babe Ruth relaxing with his dog in Miami Beach, 1947.

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Tony Gwynn could have came out of retirement and went 0 for his next 1,183 & he’d still be at a career .300 BA…
Pete Rose could come out of retirement and go 750 for his next 750 & Gwynn would still have a higher career BA…
Respect to Ty and all the great hitters of baseball history….

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I would say Ty Cobb pre-war and Ichiro Suzuki post-war are the two best hitters ever. And I love them both!

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See the young man in this picture? He was 18 years old when it was taken at the train station in Mobile, Alabama, in 1952. There is $1.50 in his pocket. In that bag by his foot are two changes of clothes. (And if his mama was anything like most other mamas in the South, probably some sandwiches and other snacks.) He was on his way to Indiana to take a job.
He was going to play baseball for the Indy Clowns of the Negro Leagues. Apparently, he was pretty good at it. A couple of years later, he was signed by the Milwaukee Brewers. He played for the Brewers for 2 seasons, then moved across town to the Braves, and later followed them to Atlanta. Eventually, he was the last Negro League player to be on a major league roster.
He still hangs around the baseball world. At the moment, he's the senior vice president of the Atlanta Braves. Even though the team has changed stadiums (twice) since then, his retired number, 44, still hangs on the outfield wall of the old Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium near where he belted a homer to break Babe Ruth's all-time record (which he held for 33 years).
Happy 85th birthday to "Hammerin' Hank" Aaron.