HeyJaredMuseum of Baseball Wire Photos
Avid baseball fan since 1968 who still gets a thrill from seeing the baseball cards of my youth and the glossy wire photos that were published in the papers.
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Clem Labine in Topps Cards and Wire Photos, Part 2 (opens the original)
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After an off-year in 1958 in their first season in Los Angeles, in which they finished 12 games under .500, the Dodgers resumed their excellence in 1959 with some of the old guard — including Labine — still in place.1958<img alt=
Clem Labine in Wire Photos and Topps Cards (opens the original)
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Buried beneath all the big names on the powerhouse Dodger teams of the 1950s is a pitcher who never got much award recognition, but who was at or near the top of many leaders lists upon his retirement.Clem Labine left the game for good early in the 1962 season. He was an original Met, but the team used him only sparingly. He threw four innings for the team before being released on the first of May.But for years before, though never a big name, he was, nonetheless, a force. Among his distinctions
Gone, Goodbye (opens the original)
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In the days of not-too-distant yonder, when “breaking news” was classified differently from click bait, the wire services were tasked with disseminating the sad fact of the end of a well-known person’s life to its media subscribers. It’s this mournful milieu that we travel through today.What follows are alerts — the kinds of which cause bells to ring in the wire rooms of newspapers — about the deaths of well-known ballplayers. Those brief, succinct dispatches might fit right into a USA Today new
The 1947 World Series (opens the original)
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The 1947 World Series had more than a little of everything. It had a lot of everything.Yankees and Dodgers, Round 2, in what would become a 7-Series series, running between 1941 and 1956. For the many times Brooklyn and its fans would have their hearts shredded and the remains stomped on, the 1947 clash established the emotional tenor for what was to come with nearly constant fervor in the 50s.This was one of the four Series that went the full seven games. There were pitchers duels and slugfests
Off the Field, And on to Another (opens the original)
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The skills necessary to excel at baseball don’t always align with what’s required in other major sports. Being able to hit a curveball, for instance, has no parallels in the athletic world. Same goes for reading hops on ground balls. And the cerebral requirements of eluding bats from 60 feet, six inches away is very much its own animal.That said, hitting for power and driving a golf ball enjoy similarities. Running down fly balls on the dead run might make you a good candidate to be a wide recei
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