| SUBJECT: Bobo Newsom COMMENTS / CONDITION: Original snapshot photo of Bobo Newsom, pictured on the field wearing his Detroit Tigers uniform circa 1939-41. The photo measures just under 4"x5". Comes from a large collection of unique original snapshot-type photos taken from 1938 to 1941. All are guaranteed to be original to the period (not modern-day reproductions), and thus would be termed Type 1 Originals. These photos are generally in VG to EX condition with the majority showing exceptional image quality and faults being largely confined to corners and edges. See scans of each photo for specific condition details. Check out my other listings this week for more photos from this collection. BIO: Louis Norman Newsom (Buck) was born in Hartsville, SC and died in 1962 in Orlando, FL. He played major league baseball from 1929 to 1953 as pitcher for the Brooklyn Robins, Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Browns, Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox, Detroit Tigers, Philadelphia Athletics, New York Yankees, and the New York Giants, appeared in the 1940 and 1947 World Series, and was selected 4 times as an All-Star. Newsom was known as a somewhat eccentric and emotional personality, typically referring to everyone, and also himself in the third person, as "Bobo". Newsom pitched valiantly in a losing cause in Game Seven of the 1940 World Series with the Detroit Tigers, two days after pitching a shutout in honor of his father, who had died while visiting from South Carolina and watching his son win the opener. Bobo had said before pitching Game Five "I'll win this one for my daddy." When manager Del Baker named Newsom to take the mound for Game Seven, Bobo was asked by reporters, "will you win this one for your daddy too?" "Why, no," Newsom said, "I think I'll win this one for old Bobo." Upon his retirement in 1953, he was the last major leaguer to have played in the 1920s to still be active. Newsom is mentioned in the poem "Lineup for Yesterday" by Ogden Nash: N is for Newsom, Bobo's favorite kin. You ask how he's here, He talked himself in. SKU: X02519
Item: X02519
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