Photo ID How Good Are You!

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Posted By: Donald Johnson

See if you can ID when/where this photo was taken. Also, how many players can you ID? Enjoy

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Taken in Japan...I see Moe Berg, Babe Ruth, Connie Mack, Lou Gehrig? (next to Mack), Jimmie Foxx...not sure I recognize anyone else.

edited to add - taken on a tour of Japan in 1934.

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Posted By: Brad Green

I see Connie Mack, Babe Ruth and Jimmie Foxx. I would guess it was taken during one of the Tours of Japan. Maybe 1934? I don't see Lefty Grove in the picture anywhere...

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Posted By: Brian Goldner

Taken in Japan

MLB tour in i believe, 1934.

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Posted By: barrysloate

Never saw Gehrig with a bowtie before.

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Posted By: Donald Johnson

You guys are good! Photo is from Moe Berg's estate. You can see the word Moe written above his head. Believe this was annotated by Berg's brother Sam. Also in the picture are Lefty Gomez, Charlie Gehringer and Eric McNair.

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Yeah....I should have recognized McNair. I think that's him kneeling far left. I don't see Lefty Grove though.

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Posted By: Tim Newcomb

Gehringer, top left

Gomez, next to him

McNair front row left

Cool photo!

Tim

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Posted By: Brian

Looks like the same photo in the current Lelands auction.

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Posted By: Donald Johnson

You're right! The photo listed above has a raised stamp from the Japanese studio where the photo was taken. I wonder if the photo in the Leland's auction was produced from the same negative - I don't see a similar seal.

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

If these photos came from Moe Berg's estate there is a good chance that there are numerous copies of each photo out there....I'm not sure why, but Berg kept extras of most of his photos. I have seen a whole lot of his photos hitting ebay recently and almost all of them are in lots where there are more than one copy of the photo.

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Posted By: scgaynor

I sold the one above, and it was from Berg's estate.

The one in the current Lelands-Gaynor auction is from the Louisville Slugger archive.

Hope this helps.

Scott

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Posted By: Donald Johnson

Thanks for the info Scott and nice to hear from you!

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Posted By: Ryan Christoff

Josh Gibson (top row, far left), Jim Thorpe (top row, 2nd from right), Joe Jackson (kneeling, 3rd from right), Ty Cobb (kneeling, 2nd from left).

Very rare to find images of Gibson in Japan, although we've been fortunate to have a few surface on the board recently.

-Ryan

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Posted By: Chris Counts

If the photo was taken in Japan, I'd be surprised if Lefty O'Doul wasn't in the mix ... is that him to the right of Gehrig?

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Posted By: Bob

Is that Mickey Cochrane third from the left, top row?