1985 Original Slide Transparency FRANK VIOLA Minnesota Twins

DATE SHOT: Spring 1985

SUBJECT: Frank Viola

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.

Frank John Viola (Sweet Music) was born in 1960 in Hempstead, NY and went to college at St. John's University. He played major league baseball from 1982 to 1996 as pitcher for the Minnesota Twins, New York Mets, Boston Red Sox, Cincinnati Reds and the Toronto Blue Jays, appeared in the 1987 World Series, and was selected 3 times as an All-Star. Viola won the American League Cy Young Award in 1988 and was also named American Legaue Pitcher of the Year that year. After he retired, Viola coached baseball for Lake Highland Preparatory School in Orlando, Florida as well as the Florida College Summer League's Leesburg Lightning. On January 26, 2011, Viola was hired as pitching coach of the Brooklyn Cyclones. His son, Frank Viola III, was drafted by the Chicago White Sox in 2004 and spent two seasons in rookie ball.

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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1985 Original Slide Transparency FRANK VIOLA Minnesota Twins1985 Original Slide Transparency FRANK VIOLA Minnesota Twins
1985 Original Slide Transparency FRANK VIOLA Minnesota Twins
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