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Originally Posted by Hankphenom
Judging by the crowd, I'd guess he's warming up at Griffith Stadium during the world series, perhaps before game seven in which he played such a key role, holding the Giants for 5 innings and serving as the linchpin to Bucky Harris's outmaneuvering of John McGraw to get Bill Terry out of the game so the Nats righthanders Fred Marberry and (if needed) Walter Johnson wouldn't have to face the Giants rookie who had been tearing them up all series. What's on the back, Scott? And did this come from Keating, whom I saw pick up a great collection of vintage Senators signed photos at the National?
Hank Thomas
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Hank, I received my 1924 George Mogridge signed photo today. It looks really nice up close. I have rescanned it and have attached the new image below.
The good news is that I have solved one of the riddles. The photo was taken by George W. Harris of Harris & Ewing photographic studio. You can see their brand at the bottom left corner of the photo. Harris & Ewing shot many photos of people, events and architecture primarily in the Washington DC area between 1905 and 1945.
In 1955 Harris donated 700,000 of his negatives to the Library of Congress. Reprints of many of these images are available for sale. I checked to see if my image or any of these other images of the 1924 World Series were available on their website, but no dice. Anyway, at least I know who shot the photo.
FWIW, in looking carefully at the photo, I'm in agreement with you that I believe that this photo was taken of Mogridge warming up prior to game 7 of the 1924 World Series.
BTW Hank: I reread your chapter on Game 7 of the 1924 World Series. No doubt that this had to be one of the greatest baseball games ever played because of so many different reasons. Thanks for reminding me to reread the chapter to note the significance!