Carl Yastrzemski (Topps 1971)
August 7, 1956. 68 cents + 7 cents tax. Via Eephus League.
“Umpire William Grieve issuing a walk to pinch hitter, outraging Red Sox manager Joe McCarthy and catcher Birdie Tebbetts, during Senators and Red Sox game.” October 1949. (Life Magazine)
Ted Williams, 1939. Photo by Arthur Griffin. (via)
Fenway Park, circa 1925: a Red Sox base runner slides into third as Yankee Joe Dugan applies the tag. (Click to view hi-res.) From a trove of amazing images from baseball’s golden age by Boston news photographer Leslie Jones. Until their recent publication, most of the images in Jones’s collection have never been available. The Boston Public Library will continue to upload images from the collection as they are digitized. Read more about the collection here.
New Medias Rojas de Boston player Adrián González on the front page of Mexican newspaper Récord today.
How quickly MLB teams turn over personnel, even championship teams. (via)





