DATE SHOT: Spring 1985 SUBJECT: Bert Blyleven APPROXIMATE SIZE: 35mm in standard slide mount MARKS / STAMPING: Mount is pre-printed with team name, player identification and position. TYPE CLASSIFICATION: Original Promo Slide COMMENTS / CONDITION: This is positive film that can be viewed with a backlight source without having to invert the image. As with original negatives, it can be used to produce high-quality photographic prints (no print is included with this item though). This is one of a large number of sports promo slides that I will be listing in the coming weeks. Wear on these, if any, is mostly confined to the mount's edges, but see scans for further details including film 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. Rik Aalbert Blyleven was born in 1951 in Zeist, Holland. He played major league baseball from 1970 to 1992 as pitcher for the Minnesota Twins, Texas Rangers, Pittsburgh Pirates, Cleveland Indians and the California Angels, appeared in the 1979 and 1987 World Series, was selected in 1973 and 1985 as an All-Star, and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2011. Blyleven totaled 287 victories during his major league career, and his 60 shutouts put him ninth on the list for all time. After Blyleven's election to the Hall of Fame in 2011, the Twins announced that they would retired uniform number 28 in his honor. Since 1995, Blyleven has been a broadcaster for the Twins. Fans hold up "Circle Me Bert" signs in hopes that Bert will use the telestrator to circle them on the air. 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. LV01 SKU: LSP00007
Item: LSP00007
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