DATE: 1974 ORIGINAL or DUPLICATE: Original Film TEAM: New York Yankees SUBJECTS: PHOTOGRAPHER: Jim Anderson APPROXIMATE SIZE: 35mm in Kodachrome slide mount NUMBER OF SLIDES: 1 COMMENTS / CONDITION: This is an original color transparency (film) which, like original negatives, can be used to produce high-quality prints (and unlike negatives, can be viewed and enjoyed with the naked eye, without having to use software to invert the image). See scan for further details. This is one of a large accumulation of vintage sports photographs, slides and negatives that we will be listing over the coming months. 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: Ronald Mark Blomberg (Boomer) was born in 1948 in Atlanta, GA. He played major league baseball from 1969 to 1978 as 1st baseman and outfielder for the New York Yankees and the Chicago White Sox. In 2007, Blomberg was hired as one of the first managers in the Israel Baseball League. He won Manager of the Year honors after leading his team to the IBL title. It was Blomberg's first time in Israel. He had been invited in 1973 by Moshe Dayan and Golda Meir but the Yom Kippur War took place and Blomberg had decided not to come. Elston Gene Howard was born in 1929 in St. Louis, MO and died in 1980 in New York, NY. He played major league baseball from 1955 to 1968 as outfielder for the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox, appeared in the 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964 and 1967 World Series, and was selected 9 times as an All-Star. Howard was the 1963 American League MVP, and earned Gold Glove Awards in 1963 and 1964. Howard was a trendsetter in many ways. In addition to being the first African-American Yankee, he is also widely credited as the creator of the batting donut. SKU: LSP01364
Item: LSP01364
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