Here's another one of those bats which just have the #1. Obviously it's not Al Smith's number. Jim Landis was #1 on the White Sox, so it could be his bat.
And this is definitely not Paul Foytack's glove. I saw a name written on the glove that didn't look like it started with an F or a P.
Zooming in close it looks like it starts with a B. The only pitcher for the 1962 Tigers with a B name was Hall of Famer Jim Bunning?
Could it be? I decided to look online for more photos of Foytack with a glove. That's where I found this Topps original photo, much clearer than what is on the card. You can clearly see here that the name is Bunning. This came from a Flickr account called tibob1. He has hundreds of these kinds of photos that I guess are from the Topps archives. Lots of cards I recognized from photos, and lots of obscure players and zero-year uniforms for notable names. Is there a full repository of these somewhere?
Nice sleuthing on the Foytack mystery.
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ReplyDeleteI'm envious of your sharp eyes. Even zoomed in, I had trouble seeing Bunning on that glove.
ReplyDeleteDon't feel bad, I couldn't see it either.
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