DATE OF IMAGE: 1926-27 PRINT DATE: 1970 ORIGINAL or REPRINT: Original - Printed from the original negative in the time period in which it was shot TEAM: Brooklyn Dodgers SUBJECT: Babe Herman APPROXIMATE SIZE: 3-1/2"x5-1/2" NUMBER OF PHOTOS: 1 COMMENTS / CONDITION: Offered is an approximately 3-1/2"x5-1/2" printed photo postcard of Babe Herman, pictured in his Brooklyn Robins uniform circa 1926-27. Produced by Sports Cards For Collectors as part of their 1970 Old Timer Postcards series. Has divided postcard back but remains postally unused. Please see scans of the actual card for further details including condition. BIO: Floyd Caves Herman was born in 1903 in Buffalo, NY and died in 1987 in Glendale, CA. He played major league baseball from 1926 to 1945 as outfielder for the Brooklyn Robins, Cincinnati Reds, Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates, Detroit Tigers and the Brooklyn Dodgers. Herman was involved in one of the most absurd plays in baseball history when he doubled into a double play. With the bases loaded, he hit a long hit and began racing around the bases. As he rounded second, the third base coach yelled at him to go back because the runner from first, Chick Fewster, hadn't yet rounded third. The runner from second, pitcher Dazzy Vance misunderstood and headed back to third, even though he could have scored easily. Herman ignored the coach and headed for third himself, so that all three players wound up there. The third baseman tagged all three runners, putting out Fewster and Herman but not Vance, who was entitled to the base according to the rules. The three men on third story led to a standard joke in which a Brooklyn Dodgers fan, on being told that his team had three men on base demanded to know which base. SKU: L09964
Item: L09964
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