What Is This All About ? At Wrigley Field ?

[MikeGarcia]

....The baby-faced kid being congratulated for something ? Hornsby or Hartnett ?....no ID on the 8 x 9 1/2 photo except on the back in fountain pen printing :" K.F. Parnell".....very sturdy paper , not glossy , and who might the player with the schnozz be ? He looks familiar.......I really love those billboards in the back ; Botany Ties are Wrinkle-proof.......thanks for your help and ideas......is it Wrigley Field even ?

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[trdcrdkid]

Looks like Hartnett. That's the 1938 Cubs road uniform, so it's not at Wrigley. Maybe honoring Hartnett for winning the pennant as player-manager that year?

[trdcrdkid]

The Cubs clinched the 1938 pennant in a 4-game series at St. Louis after Hartnett hit his famout "homer in the gloamin'" at Wrigley to put them in first place. This looks like it could be at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis, after they clinched.

[trdcrdkid]

My guess is that this is in St. Louis on Sunday, October 2, 1938, the last day of the season, after the Cubs clinched the pennant the previous day by splitting a doubleheader with the Cardinals.

[obiwan1129]

Right season but that is actually a group of friends and admirers from Millville, MA presenting him some gifts at Braves field against the Boston Bees in August 1938. Gabby always looked forward to the Boston trip to be able to see family and friends from home.

The same picture is in this biography on Gabby.

https://smile.amazon.com/Gabby-Hartn.../dp/0786418508

With a caption that the photo was provided by the Town of Milliville J.G. Fitzgerald Historical Society.

Looking at their 1938 schedule, probably one of these dates 8/6/1938 or 8/7/1938 (Doubleheader).

[obiwan1129]

He was named manager just a few weeks before on July 20, 1938. And yes, the famous homer in the gloamin would come towards the end of the season.

[Mark17]

Originally Posted by trdcrdkid

The Cubs clinched the 1938 pennant in a 4-game series at St. Louis after Hartnett hit his famout "homer in the gloamin'" at Wrigley to put them in first place. This looks like it could be at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis, after they clinched.

It would be unlikely there would be an on-field congratulations for the Cubs, in St. Louis, for the Cubs beating the home town team out of a pennant the day before.

[MK]

Originally Posted by MikeGarcia

....The baby-faced kid being congratulated for something ? Hornsby or Hartnett ?....no ID on the 8 x 9 1/2 photo except on the back in fountain pen printing :" K.F. Parnell".....very sturdy paper , not glossy , and who might the player with the schnozz be ? He looks familiar.......I really love those billboards in the back ; Botany Ties are Wrinkle-proof.......thanks for your help and ideas......is it Wrigley Field even ?

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Tex Carlton wore #16 from 1935 to 1938.

[MK]

Originally Posted by MikeGarcia

....The baby-faced kid being congratulated for something ? Hornsby or Hartnett ?....no ID on the 8 x 9 1/2 photo except on the back in fountain pen printing :" K.F. Parnell".....very sturdy paper , not glossy , and who might the player with the schnozz be ? He looks familiar.......I really love those billboards in the back ; Botany Ties are Wrinkle-proof.......thanks for your help and ideas......is it Wrigley Field even ?

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Just found another photo of this same event in the book “The Gabby Hartnett Story”.