Photo Satchel Paige and Joe Louis together

[Scott Garner]

Thanks Hank! I got the year right at least.

[Hankphenom]

Wonder if this was the first shutout by a black pitcher in the majors?

[whiteymet]

Hank:

Thanks for the info on my photo. Even ID'ing the other fellow in the picture.

Since I am not a photo collector help me out here. Yours is obviously a wirephoto. Mine is not and is cropped differently, but it appears to be the same photo.

What is mine? It is on different paper than a wirephoto would be. I assume rights were owned by Acme Telephoto so how could the same image have been reproduced on different paper, cropped etc.?

Does the AMcK on the back of your photo ID the photographer? If so was he "allowed" to reproduce the image?

Any info/education you or others can give would be greatly appreciated.

Fred

[SikSyko]

That is a great photo.

[Hankphenom]

Hard to say, Fred. I assume yours has nothing on the back, so I would say it's a copy of some kind. The definition looks pretty good, so it might have been done from the negative, but maybe just a good copy from a print.

[Scott Garner]

From Wikipedia:

"The Indians were in a heated pennant race on August 20, 1948. Coming into the game against the White Sox, Bob Lemon, Gene Bearden and Sam Zoldak had thrown shutouts to run up a thirty-inning scoreless streak, eleven shy of the big league record. 201,829 people had come to see his last three starts. For this game in Cleveland, 78,382 people came to see Paige, a full 6,000 more people than the previous record night game attendance record. Paige went the distance, giving up two singles and one double for his second consecutive three hit shutout. At that point in the season, Paige was 5–1 with an astoundingly low 1.33 ERA".

NOTE: The game on August 20th was Paige's career best low hit game in his major league career that he didn't even begin until he was 42 years old because of baseball's color barrier. It also is of special note that at this point in the 1948 season, Cleveland and the White Sox were in a heated battle for the American League pennant...