1985 Original Slide Transparency JOE NIEKRO Houston Astros

DATE SHOT: Spring 1985

SUBJECT: Joe Niekro

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.

Joseph Franklin Niekro was born in 1944 in Martins Ferry, OH and died in 2006 in Tampa, FL of a brain aneurysm.. He went to college at West Liberty State College. He played major league baseball from 1967 to 1988 as pitcher for the Chicago Cubs, San Diego Padres, Detroit Tigers, Atlanta Braves, Houston Astros, New York Yankees and the Minnesota Twins, appeared in the 1987 World Series, and was selected in 1979 as an All-Star. Niekro was one of the most successful knuckleball pitchers of his era, and was selected as National League Pitcher of the Year in 1979. Joe Niekro's son Lance Niekro made his Major League debut in 2003 as a first baseman with the San Francisco Giants. Joe and Phil Niekro hold the record for most wins by two brothers with 539 - 221 by Joe and 318 by Phil.

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: LSP00078

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1985 Original Slide Transparency JOE NIEKRO Houston Astros1985 Original Slide Transparency JOE NIEKRO Houston Astros
1985 Original Slide Transparency JOE NIEKRO Houston Astros
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