View Full Version : Who are these two former Dodgers?
AutographCollector
02-18-2008, 10:55 AM
There is no sound, and it's a quick video taken from the 1930's.
Anyone take a guess?
http://www.thoughtequity.com/video/clip/541015_001.do
Imgran
02-18-2008, 11:34 AM
I've see that thin, pointy-nosed Dodger before -- the one it mostly focused on. But I can't place him. Almost looks like Pee Wee Reese, but that destroys the "1930s" caption because Reese debuted in 1940
http://www.freewebtown.com/bssbl/Pee_Wee_Reese.jpg
As for the other guy, no clue.
DODGER DEB
02-18-2008, 12:38 PM
That is NOT Pee Wee!
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DODGER DEB
02-18-2008, 01:00 PM
While I am not positive, the player on the left side looks like GOODY ROSEN.
The player on the right side looks very familiar, but I can't lace him.
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AutographCollector
02-18-2008, 01:14 PM
While I am not positive, the player on the left side looks like GOODY ROSEN.
The player on the right side looks very familiar, but I can't lace him.
c.
Here's "Goody" in 1945:
AutographCollector
02-18-2008, 01:17 PM
Now that I look at the video and this pic... the guy in the short clip has a huge nose, as compared to the pic of Goody he has a small nose. Also the pic shows a slight unibrow... the short video clip doesn't appear to have a uni.
BUT... I may be wrong.
Shotgun Shuba
02-18-2008, 06:28 PM
I was wearing that hat today. It's their green hat from 1937. If you can find a 1937 team picture you will be off to a good start.
I saw a TV show once about the great jackie Robinson and I remember hearign that in a team photo one of the Dodgers turn their head in protest of Robinson being on that team. Do anyone know his name and what year that took place?
DODGER DEB
02-18-2008, 07:00 PM
I saw a TV show once about the great jackie Robinson and I remember hearign that in a team photo one of the Dodgers turn their head in protest of Robinson being on that team. Do anyone know his name and what year that took place?
That was Dixie Walker in, I believe, 1947.
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VIBaseball
02-18-2008, 08:40 PM
I captured and trimmed pictures from the clip (sorry, Thoughtequity).
My guesses to follow.
VIBaseball
02-18-2008, 08:51 PM
Our man on the left looks like Heinie Manush:
http://www.hickoksports.com/biograph/manushheinie.shtml
VIBaseball
02-18-2008, 08:58 PM
And for #2, what do you think about his outfield mate in 1937? (Heinie was with Brooklyn just briefly in '38.)
That would be Roger Kahn's grandfather's favorite player, Johnny Cooney.
Great clue with the caps, Shotgun Shuba!
musial6
02-20-2008, 10:49 AM
And for #2, what do you think about his outfield mate in 1937? (Heinie was with Brooklyn just briefly in '38.)
That would be Roger Kahn's grandfather's favorite player, Johnny Cooney.
Great clue with the caps, Shotgun Shuba!
Good old Johnny Cooney, a good-hitting pitcher who went on to become a journeyman outfielder, part of the trade that brought Leo the Lip to Brooklyn.
Dodgerfan1
02-20-2008, 10:56 AM
One of my favorite pieces of trivia is about Cooney. Dude had well over 3300 major league at-bats with just two lifetime homers, but they were hit on consecutive days in 1939!
musial6
02-20-2008, 10:57 AM
Incidentally, Johnny had a great glove. Stengel thought it ranked with DiMag and Terry Moore,
penncentralpete
02-20-2008, 11:47 AM
Johnny in 1941 as a Brave....
Dodgerfan1
02-20-2008, 11:57 AM
Incidentally, Johnny had a great glove. Stengel thought it ranked with DiMag and Terry Moore,
Stengel also persuaded the Mets to take Steve Chilcott in the first round of the 1966 amateur draft, which is how the A's wound up 'settling' for Reggie Jackson.
musial6
02-20-2008, 02:09 PM
Stengel also persuaded the Mets to take Steve Chilcott in the first round of the 1966 amateur draft, which is how the A's wound up 'settling' for Reggie Jackson.
Casey also thought that Billy Cox had a better glove than Brooks Robinson. So did I.
Ralph Zig Tyko
02-20-2008, 02:24 PM
Casey also thought that Billy Cox had a better glove than Brooks Robinson. So did I.
... and Clete Boyer had as good, if not better, a glove than Billy and Brooks.
Here's a link to a post I wrote when Clete passed away last year:
http://pushpull.wordpress.com/2007/06/04/rip-clete-boyer/
Dodgerfan1
02-20-2008, 02:50 PM
Casey also thought that Billy Cox had a better glove than Brooks Robinson. So did I.
Can't argue that one!!
donzblock
02-20-2008, 03:38 PM
And Rex Barney also thought that Billy Cox was better than Brooks, and he never tired of twitting Robinson about that. As for Clete Boyer, he was a hell of a fielder, but I'll take Billy. Cox could do one thing Boyer couldn't: count the stitches on the ball.
VIBaseball
02-20-2008, 08:25 PM
Back on topic: one of the things from the first half of The Boys of Summer that always stuck with me was how little Roger Kahn implored his grandfather the old-country dentist to take him to more games at Ebbets while his parents were traveling.
"All right, allrrright, if it means so moch to you," Dr. Rockow said, "we can both go Thursday afternoon when I don't practice...Dr. Rockow began to root for Johnny Cooney, a very smooth center fielder, and drew from me an oath never to tell my parents about the games or his own rooting. "Don't ee-wen speak too moch of Cooney," he said. "Bahtter these games be jost between us."