THREE-A-DAY BRANDDuke Snider, Brooklyn Dodgers' centerfielder, and manager Burt Shotton wear big smiles in the dressing room after Snider drove out three successive homers in yesterday's afternoon tilt with the Phillies at Ebbets Field. Brooklyn beat Philadelphia 7-6 in ten innings in teh morning game and 6-4 in the afternoon to take over first place in teh National League from the Phillies.
DATE: 5-31-1950
ORIGINAL or REPRINT: Type 3 - Second or later-generation photo, printed from a duplicate negative or wire photo process, within about 2 years of when it was shot
TEAM: Brooklyn Dodgers
SUBJECTS: Duke Snider, Burt Shotton
ISSUER: Associated Press
APPROXIMATE SIZE: 10"x7-1/2"
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: Edwin Donald Snider (The Silver Fox) was born in 1926 in Los Angeles, CA and died in 2011 in Escondido, CA. He played major league baseball from 1947 to 1964 as outfielder for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Mets and the San Francisco Giants, appeared in the 1949, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, and 1959 World Series, was selected 8 times as an All-Star, and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1980. Snider went on to become a popular and respected play-by-play announcer for the Montreal Expos from 1973 to 1986.
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: XP12340
Item: XP12340