Looking for photos - 1946 Baseball All Star game
dgbaseball
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I'm looking for 2 photos from the 1946 All Star game at Fenway. I'd like to buy these for my father for Christmas, as he was at the game (and believes he might actually be in the background of the N.L. team photo).
The two pictures are of each league team taken before the game, with each squad standing on the steps of their dugout. I know they exist, as the AL team picture was recently used in an ad in the NY Times. If anyone knows anything about these pictures or knows a memorabilia dealer who might be able to help, please PM or reply. I've also contacted someone at the HOF who (as always) is being very helpful and checking to see if they have them, although that may take a while, and I'm sure they will charge a ton of $$ for the prints.
Thanks, Dave
The two pictures are of each league team taken before the game, with each squad standing on the steps of their dugout. I know they exist, as the AL team picture was recently used in an ad in the NY Times. If anyone knows anything about these pictures or knows a memorabilia dealer who might be able to help, please PM or reply. I've also contacted someone at the HOF who (as always) is being very helpful and checking to see if they have them, although that may take a while, and I'm sure they will charge a ton of $$ for the prints.
Thanks, Dave
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Re: 1946 All-star game
Big All-Star game for the "splendid splinter"! The American League won the game 12-0, and Williams went 4 for 4 plus a walk with 5 RBIs at his home park (Fenway!).
I see why your dad remembers this "monster of a game".
GL in finding those pics!
rbd
Quicksilver Messenger Service - Smokestack Lightning (Live) 1968
Quicksilver Messenger Service - The Hat (Live) 1971
p.s. rdb, that pin is pretty sweet...
Edited, yeah I can't figure out how to add the pictures. Here's the link if anyone wants to see it:
Globe Photo
We were talking about the 46 game today. One of his most vivid memories is remembering being so excited and facinated seeing the other AL players in the home white jerseys. Obviously with no T.V., the only way to see any out of town stars in their home whites was to travel to their parks (he had seen all of the N.L road jerseys being a Braves fan as well).
Not to be tacky or give any unnecessary credit to that blow hard Ken Burns, but it's stories like that the really remind me about "when it was a game" and how much things have changed since the golden age of baseball.
Shane
I think the stuff he does is fantastic, namely the "When it was a game" series was wonderful. But Ken Burns the person is way too full of himself and miserably sappy if you've ever heard him talk in person or in an interview.
A quick story... A few days after Ted died the Sox had a special farewell ceremony at Fenway on an off-night. They brought in lots of relevant speakers, friends, videos, teammates, war buddies, dignitaries etc. It was a great and touching night, but as anyone who was there would tell you, the one blemish was when Burns got a hold of the microphone. He literally talked for 45 minutes straight, reading from a sappy script he no doubt spent months composing. At about minute 8, everybody (probably including Ted from his deep freeze) wanted him to shut up and pass it on to John Glenn or whoever was up next. It was as though he didn't understand the night wasn't about him... Many in the crowd were groaning and by the end no one was even listening to him anymore.
Have already contacted the HOF library and they most likely will be of help (as they were in the past in my quest to find pictures of Old Hoss Radbourn). I'm expecting they'll charge more than I might get elsewhere though, plus they might be limited on the size of prints available.