HAPPY GREETING is waved to crowd by Burt Shotton, home again with Brooklyn Dodgers in surprise double-shift which sent Leo Durocher to Giants. Both clubs made quick spurt. DATE: 1948 ORIGINAL or REPRINT: Type 1 Original - Printed from the original negative within about 2 years of when it was shot TEAM: Brooklyn Dodgers SUBJECT: Burt Shotton APPROXIMATE SIZE: 7-3/4"x12" MARKS / STAMPING: Clipped caption from unidentified publication in which the photo ran remains affixed to the verso. NUMBER OF PHOTOS: 1 COMMENTS / CONDITION: This is one of a large accumulation of vintage sports photographs, slides and negatives that we will be listing over the coming months. Wear on these, if any, is mostly confined to minor corner and edge wear, but see scans for further details including 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. BIO: Burton Edwin Shotton (Barney) was born in 1884 in Brownhelm, OH and died in 1962 in Lake Wales, FL. He played major league baseball from 1909 to 1923 as outfielder for the St. Louis Browns, Washington Senators and the St. Louis Cardinals. Almost all of his major league playing career was spent in St. Louis, either with the Browns or with the Cardinals. His tendency to draw walks was of great value in the dead-ball era when hits were hard to come by. He went on to manage the Philadelphia Phillies (1928-33), Cincinnati Reds (1934), and the Brooklyn Dodgers (1947-50). As a manager, Shotton is best remembered for wearing street clothes in the dugout rather than a uniform. In 1947, he replaced Leo Durocher in Brooklyn after Commissioner Happy Chandler suspended Durocher for the entire season for "conduct detrimental to baseball" -- notably, Leo's association with gamblers. Shotton was known for playing hunches and taking some surprising tactical risks (for example, when he had Al Gionfriddo steal second in Game Four of the World Series, down 2-1 in the ninth inning). New York Daily News sportswriter Dick Young gave him the sardonic nickname "Kindly Old Burt Shotton" (reduced to the acronym KOBS). SKU: L20288
Item: L20288
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