The Catch
Purchased this from my best friend who is consolidating his collection. The story of the catch is well known and what I like about this one is that it's colorized which gives it a vintage feel. My buddy had the 16x20 signed by Mays and took it with him to Arizona to a framer that does really good work. Turns out that the other part of the story that isn't as well known is that Joe Garagiola is the bald headed guy that can be seen in one of the centerfield windows (he had been traded to the Giants during the last month of the season but didn't make the WS roster). Joe lives in Arizona and turns out to be a friend of our framer. He was nice enough to get is signed by him (hard to see in this picture but he's drawn an arrow in silver sharpie and under it he signed "that's me, Joe Garagiola".
I haven't seen too many of these around.
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