DATE: 1950s ORIGINAL or REPRINT: Original - Printed from the original negative in the time period in which it was shot TEAM: New York Yankees SUBJECTS: Whitey Ford, Saul Rogovin, Billy Martin, Gretchen Winkler, Joan Ford ISSUER: The Harwyn Club APPROXIMATE SIZE: 10"x8" NUMBER OF PHOTOS: 1 COMMENTS / CONDITION: This is one of a large accumulation of vintage sports photographs, slides and negatives that we will be listing over the coming months. Wear on these, if any, is mostly confined to minor corner and edge wear, but see scans for further details including condition. We do not deal in stock images or modern reprints, and all scans shown are of the actual vintage photograph, slide or negative being sold. If you have any questions about a particular piece, please ask before the auction ends. BIO: Edward Charles Ford (The Chairman of the Board and Slick) was born in 1928 in New York, NY and died in 2020 in Lake Success, NY. He played major league baseball from 1950 to 1967 as pitcher for the New York Yankees, appeared in the 1950, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963 and 1964 World Series, was selected 8 times as an All-Star, and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974. He was voted the AL Rookie of the Year in 1950 by The Sporting News, and won the Cy Young Award in 1961. After his career ended, Ford admitted to occasionally cheating by doctoring baseballs in various ways, such as the "mudball," which could only be used at home in Yankee Stadium: Yankee groundskeepers would wet down an area near the catcher's box where Yankee catcher Elston Howard was positioned; pretending to lose balance on a pitch while in his crouch and landing on his right hand (with the ball in it), Howard would coat one side of the ball with mud. Ford would sometimes use the diamond in his wedding ring to gouge the ball, but he was eventually caught by an umpire and warned to stop; Howard then sharpened a buckle on his shinguard and used it to scuff the ball. In 1977, Ford was part of the broadcast team for the first game in Toronto Blue Jays history. In 1999, Ford ranked 52nd on The Sporting News list of Baseball's Greatest Players, and was a nominee for the Major League Baseball All-Century Team. In 2003, Ford was inducted into the Nassau County Sports Hall of Fame. In 2002, Ford opened up "Whitey Ford's Cafe," a sports-themed restaurant and bar next to Roosevelt Field Mall in Garden City, New York. It lasted less than a year before it closed down. In Slick: My Life In And Around Baseball, Ford wrote "I didn't begin cheating until late in my career, when I needed something to help me survive. I didn't cheat when I won the twenty-five games in 1961. I don't want anybody to get any ideas and take my Cy Young Award away. And I didn't cheat in 1963 when I won twenty-four games. Well, maybe a little." Saul Walter Rogovin was born in 1923 in Brooklyn, NY and died in 1995 in New York, NY. He played major league baseball from 1949 to 1957 as pitcher for the Detroit Tigers, Chicago White Sox, Baltimore Orioles and the Philadelphia Phillies. Rogovin later returned to school and earned a degree in English Literature from City College of New York and became a high school teacher in Manhatten when he was 57 years of age. Alfred Manuel Martin was born in 1928 in Berkeley, CA and died in 1989 in Johnson City, NY. He played major league baseball from 1950 to 1961 as infielder for the New York Yankees, Kansas City Athletics, Detroit Tigers, Cleveland Indians, Cincinnati Reds, Milwaukee Braves and the Minnesota Twins, appeared in the 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955 and 1956 World Series, and was selected in 1956 as an All-Star. After retiring in 1961, Martin worked as a scout for the Minnesota Twins from 1962 to 1964, and a Twins coach from 1965 to May of 1968. He then replaced Johnny Goryl as manager of the Denver Bears for the rest of 1968, and the Minnesota Twins in 1969. He then went on to manage the 1969 Minnesota Twins, 1971 to 1973 Detroit Tigers, 1973 to 1975 Texas Rangers, 1975 to 1979 New York Yankees (including the 1977 World Champion team), 1980 to 1982 Oakland Athletics, and the 1983, 1985 and 1988 New York Yankees. Martin was killed in a car accident on Christmas 1989. SKU: XP11757
Item: XP11757
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