TRADEDThese players figured in the only three top-flight deals during the final 48 hours before the major leagues' trading deadline, last night. Don Clendenon, Montreal Expos' slugger, was obtained by the New York Mets for four minor leaguers and Boston Red Sox catcher Joe Azcue was swapped for catcher-utility infielder Tom Satriano fo the California Angels.
DATE SHOT: 1969
SUBJECT: Donn Clendenon
APPROXIMATE SIZE: 5"x8"
MARKS / STAMPING: Caption is embedded in obverse image as is typical with wire photos.
TYPE CLASSIFICATION: Type 3
COMMENTS / CONDITION: See scans for further details including condition.
Donn Alvin Clendenon was born in 1935 in Neosho, MO and died in 2005 in Sioux Falls, SD. He went to college at Morehouse College. He played major league baseball from 1961 to 1972 as 1st baseman for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Montreal Expos, New York Mets and the St. Louis Cardinals, and appeared in the 1969 World Series. While with the New York Mets in 1969, he hit three home runs in the 1969 World Series and was named World Series MVP. Donn had no plans to play baseball as a child, preferring basketball and football. He opted for baseball because his stepfather Nish Williams (who had raised him after his biological father died when he was six months old) was a former Negro League catcher and manager who loved the game. Williams arranged for Clendenon to face Satchel Paige and Sad Sam Jones as a youth. After finishing second in his high school class, he earned 12 letters in sports at Morehouse College. He got a job teaching in Atlanta and considered offers from the NFL's Cleveland Browns and NBA's New York Knicks and Harlem Globetrotters. Branch Rickey offered Clendenon a $500 signing bonus and he accepted it, picking the game his stepfather loved over ones where Donn could have earned more immediately. After retiring from baseball, he earned a law degree.
Explanation of Type Classifications:
Type 1 = A 1st generation photograph, developed from the original negative, during the period (within two years of when the shot was taken).
Type 2 = A 1st generation photograph, developed from the original negative, during a later period (more than two years after the shot was taken).
Type 3 = A 2nd generation photograph, developed from a duplicate negative or wire transmission, during the period.
Type 4 = A 2nd generation photograph (or 3rd or later generation), developed from a duplicate negative or wire transmission, during a later period.
Original = A 1st generation photograph, developed from the original negative, which appears to be of the period but for which a print date cannot be determined for definitive Type classification. Essentially, a photo we feel is a Type 1, but which lacks certain elements necessary for definitive dating of the print.
For further information regarding "Type" classification of photographs, please refer to "A Portrait of Baseball Photography" by Fogel, Oser and Yee, and to PSA's website at http://www.psacard.com/Exhib/B-W-Photography/index.html.
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Item: L11540