Original negatives

[GKreindler]

Great pick-up, Ryan! The negative looks as clear as day.

Graig

[Kawika]

Originally Posted by GKreindler

Great pick-up, Ryan! The negative looks as clear as day.
Graig

That photo hits me like a ton of bricks. Used to go to a lot of Yankee games when I was a kid in the fifties in New York. A grandstand seat was a buck-fortynine and I would always sit in those same right field stands as low down as I could. The first five or six rows were box seats. Can still see Bauer or Maris up close with Mantle off to the right plain as day in my mind's eye. I would pay the Devil to go back for another afternoon in the Kreindlerian shadows of Section 29.

[sicollector1954]

Don't know why every time I post--things come out sideways....with that said here is my latest find now finished....1945 Rockford Peaches with a 45 program matted and framed.....was able to pin down the year based on one player who did not play only that year with Rockford....11 out of 13 have names with faces--2 I am at a loss but hopefully will figure out in the future.

[repsher]

Thanks Craig.

David - You certainly have great memories. Must have been a great time to be alive. My first games were in the mid 80's at The Vet. At least I did get to see Mike Schmidt play. I would have loved to see Mantle in person and at a place like Yankee stadium.

[Kawika]

Originally Posted by repsher

David - You certainly have great memories. Must have been a great time to be alive. My first games were in the mid 80's at The Vet. At least I did get to see Mike Schmidt play. I would have loved to see Mantle in person and at a place like Yankee stadium.

Ryan: Things were very different in those days, in baseball and in life in general. My wife and I are a couple of nattering old senior citizens now, just shaking our heads at all the changes. That right field grandstand is where my love of baseball got started. We lived in NYC and environs from 1953 to 1961. Saw a lot of games and have a headful of grand and precious memories. Mantle taking his cuts, Yogi chasing a foul pop-up, Ford throwing heat, Tony to Bobby to Moose for the double play, Ol' Casey slouching to the mound (nobody could slouch to the mound like Stengel, it was theatrical) to threaten to trade the pitcher to Kansas City. Waiting outside the clubhouse after the game to get as many autographs as I could on my scorecard from Yanks and visiting ALers. Never occurred to me to bring my Topps cards to the ballpark. Prescient I was not. When they tore down Yankee Stadium a few years ago a little bit of me died (although the reno in the '70's pretty much ruined the ballpark I knew).

Some home movie screen caps of me and some boyhood friends at an Orioles game on the occasion of my eighth birthday, April 20, 1958. We sat in the upper deck, third base side that day. Reserved seats. Big time!




Mantle at the plate

[HRBAKER]

David those shots are priceless.

[71buc]

Pardon my odd sense of humor but I saw these and found them funny. It appears that Wade took a day job in 1983 and was warming up for Margo Adams

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