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Can Anyone Identify These Braves Oldtimers?
Posted By: Jodi Birkholm
Just guessing, but: |
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Posted By: Jodi Birkholm
More guesses (don't pile on if I'm wrong--I haven't consulted other images to double-check--just shooting from the hip): |
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Posted By: Dan Bretta
Jodi, I wondered if that was Satchel Paige in the bottom photo, but I didn't think he ever worked or played in the Braves organization. I didn't grow up near a major league organization so I'm wondering if when they had old timers games they would invite anyone who would come and not necessarily players connected to the organization. |
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Posted By: Jodi Birkholm
Did Paige ever play for the Atlanta Black Crackers? I thought he did have some professional connection to that city. |
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Posted By: Paul Muchinsky
Another clue---any stadium experts out there? Second photo, lower left corner, looks like an auxilliary scoreboard. Catcher's mitt on lower left figure---a left-handed catcher? Black guy, back row---George Crowe? |
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Posted By: Tom Hufford
I'm fairly certain these photos are from an Atlanta Braves Old-Timers game from the sometime in the mid-1970s. The Braves often usually staged these games using former players who lived in the Atlanta area, and area players who had played with the old minor league Atlanta Crackers. |
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Posted By: Dan Bretta
Thanks Tom!!! That story about Montag's phantom game is intriguing. |
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Posted By: bobw
I'm just guessing here but in the second photo,the black man in the second row looks like Buck O'Neil. |
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Posted By: Anonymous
I dont think there is a person alive who knows more about baseball history in general and at least in the Southern United States than Tom Hufford does. He is seriously a walking encyclopdia (and better in some cases like the instance above). That is a cool story and I wonder if you dig up newspaper accounts to corroborate the story and give him his rightful place next to Moonlight Graham in the Baseball Encyclopedia. |
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Posted By: Bob Lemke
in 1968-69. The other Black guy is definitely not George Crowe. |
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Posted By: Dan Bretta
Thanks Bob, I just found some info on Paige's stop in Atlanta. It was in 1969 and he was signed as a pitching coach, but it was more as a PR move to gain an "attraction" to the team in their new hometown. Paige apparently did most of his coaching from his "living room in Kansas City". Signing Paige also helped him fulfill some of his pension requirements. |
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Posted By: Jodi Birkholm
I for one am unwilling to disagree with Tom on anything baseball-related! |
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Can Anyone Identify These Braves Oldtimers?
Posted By: Tom Hufford
Now that I've given it some thought, the black fellow with glasses, on the left in the first row (second photo) may well be James "Red" Moore. It looks like a first-baseman's mitt, and Red was a first-baseman with the Atlanta Black Crackers in the 1930s-40s. It looks like I think Red may have looked about 40 years ago. He's now about 90, still lives in Atlanta, and has a real sharp memory about his baseball days. |
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