JUMPIN' AT SECONDGiant second baseman Eddie Stanky takes to the air as he tosses to first for the second leg of a double play during first inning of today's first game of Dodger-Giant twin bill, after picking off sliding Dodger Carl Furillo. Dodger Pee Wee Reese grounded one to Giant shortstop Alvin Dark who flipped to Stanky who tossed to first baseman Whitey Lockman for the kill.
DATE: 7-4-1951
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: New York Giants
SUBJECTS: Eddie Stanky, Carl Furillo
ISSUER: Associated Press
APPROXIMATE SIZE: 8-1/8"x10"
NUMBER OF PHOTOS: 1
COMMENTS / CONDITION: This is one of a number of photos to be offered which hail from the personal collection of All-Star player and manager Eddie Stanky. 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: Edward Raymond Stanky (The Brat or Muggsy) was born in 1915 in Philadelphia, PA and died in 1999 in Fairhope, AL. He played major league baseball from 1943 to 1953 as infielder for the Chicago Cubs, Brooklyn Dodgers, Boston Braves, New York Giants and the St. Louis Cardinals, appeared in the 1947, 1948 and 1951 World Series, and was selected 3 times as an All-Star. His Giants manager Leo Durocher once summed up Stanky's talents: "He can't hit, can't run, can't field. He's no nice guy... all the little SOB can do is win."
Carl Anthony Furillo (Skoonj, The Reading Rifle) was born in 1922 in Stony Creek Mills, PA and died in 1989 in Stony Creek Mills, PA. He played major league baseball from 1946 to 1960 as outfielder for the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Los Angeles Dodgers, appeared in the 1947, 1949, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956 and 1959 World Series, and was selected in 1952 and 1953 as an All-Star. After his retirement, Furillo briefly ran a deli restaurant in Queens, NY, then moved his family back to Reading and worked in construction. He was working for the Otis Elevator Company installing elevator doors on the huge World Trade Center building project when author Roger Kahn caught up with him in the fall of 1970 for his story "The Hard Hat Who Sued Baseball", in The Boys of Summer.
SKU: XP12881
Item: XP12881