A's Carney Lansford slides safely under the tag of Ken Phelps on pickoff play at first base. DATE: 1984 ORIGINAL or REPRINT: Type 1 Original - Printed from the original negative within about 2 years of when it was shot TEAM: Oakland Athletics SUBJECTS: Carney Lansford, Ken Phelps APPROXIMATE SIZE: 8"x10" NUMBER OF PHOTOS: 1 COMMENTS / CONDITION: 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: Carney Ray Lansford was born in 1957 in San Jose, CA. He played major league baseball from 1978 to 1992 as 1st and 3rd baseman for the California Angels, Boston Red Sox and the Oakland Athletics, appeared in the 1988, 1989 and 1990 World Series, and was selected in 1988 as an All-Star. Kenneth Allen Phelps was born in 1954 in Seattle, WA and went to college at Arizona State University. He played major league baseball from 1980 to 1990 as 1st baseman and DH for the Kansas City Royals, Montreal Expos, Seattle Mariners, New York Yankees, Oakland Athletics and the Cleveland Indians, and appeared in the 1989 World Series. His name became synonymous with a certain type of overlooked player when Bill James made him the focus of a recurring feature in his Baseball Abstracts in the mid-1980s. The idea of the Ken Phelps All-Stars was to bring to light players who had been successful in the minor leagues but had never been given the chance to prove their mettle in the majors (at that time, Phelps had finally established himself with the Seattle Mariners after years of minor league stardom). Every year, James would identify a full team of players who could help a team if only given some playing time. By 1988, his contribution was well-enough regarded that the New York Yankees traded top prospect Jay Buhner to acquire Phelps, a trade later rued by Yankee fans, and which became the subject of a famous joke on the sitcom Seinfeld. Phelps slugged .551 with the Yankees in his first partial season with the team, but dropped off the second year. Phelps was a radio broadcaster for the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2004. SKU: SPP00395
Item: SPP00395
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