DATE: 1948-50 ORIGINAL or REPRINT: Original - Printed from the original negative in the time period in which it was shot TEAM: Cleveland Indians SUBJECTS: Larry Doby, Snuffy Stirnweiss ISSUER: International News Photo APPROXIMATE SIZE: 7-1/8"x9" NUMBER OF PHOTOS: 1 COMMENTS / CONDITION: This is one of a number of photos to be offered which hail from the personal collection of All-Star player and manager Eddie Stanky. Wear on these, if any, is mostly confined to minor corner and edge wear, but see scans for further details including condition. We do not deal in stock images or modern reprints, and all scans shown are of the actual vintage photograph, slide or negative being sold. If you have any questions about a particular piece, please ask before the auction ends. BIO: Lawrence Eugene Doby was born in 1923 in Camden, SC and died in 2003 in Montclair, NJ. He went to college at Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus. He played major league baseball from 1947 to 1959 as outfielder for the Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox and the Detroit Tigers, appeared in the 1948 and 1954 World Series, was selected 7 times as an All-Star, and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1998. Larry Doby was the second African American to play in a major league game in the 20th Century (the first in the American League) and the second African American manager in baseball history. In 1942, Doby played for the Newark Eagles, under the pseudonym of "Larry Walker" to protect his amateur status and played his first pro game at Yankee Stadium. In 1943, he played for the Paterson (NJ) Panthers, becoming the first African American to play in the American Basketball League, a fore-runner to the NBA. Doby was signed by the Cleveland Indians in 1947. He started the American league on the road to integration when he became the first black player to appear in an AL game on July 5, 1947. After retiring from the major leagues, Doby played for the Chunichi Dragons in Japan in 1962 where he became the first MLB Hall of Famer to play in both the NPB and Major League Baseball. Doby later went on to serve as a coach for the Montreal Expos from 1971 to 1973 and a member of the Cleveland Indians staff in 1974. He returned to the Expos in 1976 and was a Chicago White Sox coach in 1977 and 1978. He also managed the Sox in the second half of the 1978 campaign. George Henry Stirnweiss was born in New York, NY and died in 1958 in Newark Bay, NJ. He went to college at the University of North Carolina. He played major league baseball from 1943 to 1952 as 2nd baseman for the New York Yankees, St. Louis Browns and the Cleveland Indians, appeared in the 1943, 1947 and 1949 World Series, and was selected in 1945 and 1946 as an All-Star. Stirnweiss was an All-American halfback at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After being graduated in 1940, he was drafted by the Chicago Cardinals of the National Football League but signed with the Yankees to play baseball instead. Following his retirement as a player, he managed in the minor leagues, and later entered the banking field. Stirnweiss' death on September 15, 1958, six years after his retirement, is one of the oddest accidental deaths of a Yankee player. Sternweiss was traveling aboard a Jersey Central train, and as the train was about to cross over a lift bridge between Port Elizabeth and Bayonne, New Jersey, the conductor of the train had a heart attack. The bridge was knocked down, and the train went through several signals before plunging into Raritan Bay. Snuffy Stirnweiss died at the age of 40, having drowned on the train along with half a dozen other passengers. SKU: XP12458
Item: XP12458
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