Where Hope Lives for the Hopeless Boston Braves
It’s 1927 spring training for the hopeless Boston Braves, and hope is in the air. You can’t lose a pennant in March, the players tell one another, as they do some grounds keeping with the batboy. Chances are you have never heard of any of the three clowning trainees here. That’s Joe Genewich in the ...
Double X – Jimmy Foxx
Double X – Jimmy Foxx was a strong man. He was a slugger. Yet, no photo has ever spoken of his strength more to me than this shot of him in 1932. The news photograph is from July 26 when Foxx had already recorded 40 home runs. The Acme Newspictures paper caption speculates about Foxx’s ...
Dodgers Celebration
These guys are not posing for a picture – a Dodgers Celebration. They are not self-conscious, they are in a world of their own, uncaring that a photo is being taken. Don Drysdale, left, and Ron Fairley have just won the World Series, and on October 12, 1965 they are blissed out. And – check ...
