Help on identifying Tabacalera La Morena card

[nolemmings]

Please allow my imagination to run wild.

It is Meusel, not Gehrig. My problem with it being Gehrig, and this may be picky, is that it seems a left-handed batter would not be "greeting" Ruth in the right-handed batter's box. I also doubt very much that it is a high five a) because I believe the low five/handshake was the norm, b) the players are too far apart for Ruth to high five and then veer in such a short space to cross the plate at that angle, and c) Ruth was running, not trotting as was his style if he parked it.

Now how about this. It's a card from the 1928 World Series. Although these teams also met in the 1926 series and Meusel actually batted between Ruth and Gehrig then, Ruth's pic clearly denotes "Yankees", which the team did not wear on their road uniforms until 1927. Yanks swept the '28 series, so only wore the road uniforms in games 3-4. Game 4, Ruth scored three times, but all were via his own home run, and again, this does not appear to be a HR trot. Game 3, Ruth twice scores, once on an error by the catcher at the plate, and the other on an inside-the-park HR by Gehrig described by Baseballreference.com as a line drive to CF. Could this not be that hit? Everyone watching to see where the ball is and how it is being chased/fielded while Lou runs around the bases?

Note: I even wondered if the other Ruth/Gehrig Tobacco La Morena card might be part of the same photo sequence, taken after Lou completed his circuit, as he looks particularly jubilant in that photo. However, I do not see the Yankees name across the unis in that shot, which would rule against it.

[barrysloate]

If it's from 1928 it is not unlike the newly found footage of Ruth from September 1928. And that too had Gehrig batting third and Meusel fifth.

[GehrigFan]

Hmmm... In looking at some other pics of Meusel, it looks like Bob was a mighty skinny guy, and I am not convinced the guy on the card is nearly that scrawny???

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bo...el_cleaned.jpg

[nolemmings]

unless you want to believe that someone batted between Ruth and Gehrig, against the Cardinals and after 1926, I don't have any other ideas. Ruth, Gehrig and Meusel batted 3-4-5 in the '28 World series, and there is definitely action on the field, such that it not a HR trot, so how did Ruth score? Maybe it was a post-season barnstorming game with a different batting lineup? A pre-season game? Okkonen has his uniform info screwed up and the Yankees really did wear those uniforms in 1926? I dunno.