Thread: Help identifying Hearst US Allstar jersey to player (1958?)
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Old 02-19-2020, 11:57 AM
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Default Hearst U.S. All Stars
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Originally Posted by adc0317 View Post
The Baltimore News-Post had pictures of Ron Swoboda (1962) and Jim Spencer (1963). The San Antonio Light had a picture of Davey Johnson and Jerry Grote (1961). Journal-American pictures are housed at the University of Texas, but nobody has done made a serious attempt to catalog. In the BRJ article, we used a picture of the 1962 U. S. All-Star outfield. These days, I am concentrating on 1948 in San Francisco.

Alan
Thanks Alan,
Are you able to post any of the newspapers images you've mentioned?
I found a copy (image attached) of the 1958 roster (#9 is John Matthews). Santo was #11.

1958HearstUSAllStar.jpg
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