1985 Original Slide Transparency OZZIE SMITH St. Louis Cardinals HOF

DATE SHOT: Spring 1985

SUBJECT: Ozzie Smith

APPROXIMATE SIZE: 35mm in standard slide mount

MARKS / STAMPING: Mount is pre-printed with team name, player identification and position.

TYPE CLASSIFICATION: Original Promo Slide

COMMENTS / CONDITION: This is positive film that can be viewed with a backlight source without having to invert the image. As with original negatives, it can be used to produce high-quality photographic prints (no print is included with this item though). This is one of a large number of sports promo slides that I will be listing in the coming weeks. Wear on these, if any, is mostly confined to the mount's edges, but see scans for further details including film 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.

Osborne Earl Smith (Wizard of Oz) was born in 1954 in Mobile, AL and went to college at California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo. He played major league baseball from 1978 to 1996 as shortstop for the San Diego Padres and the St. Louis Cardinals, appeared in the 1982, 1985 and 1987 World Series, was selected 15 times as an All-Star, and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2002. Smith earned a total of 13 Gold Glove Awards and 1 Silver Slugger Award at shortstop. Ozzie would sometimes do a back flip when he came out to take his position in the field. He was also a broadcaster for the Cardinals from 1997 to 1999. An amateur singer, Smith contributed a rendition of Sam Cooke's "Cupid" in the 2005 album "Oh Say Can You Sing?" His son Nikko was a contestant on the reality show "American Idol" in 2005.

Explanation of Type Classifications:

Type 1 = A 1st generation photograph, developed from the original negative, during the period (within two years of when the shot was taken).

Type 2 = A 1st generation photograph, developed from the original negative, during a later period (more than two years after the shot was taken).

Type 3 = A 2nd generation photograph, developed from a duplicate negative or wire transmission, during the period.

Type 4 = A 2nd generation photograph (or 3rd or later generation), developed from a duplicate negative or wire transmission, during a later period.

Original = A 1st generation photograph, developed from the original negative, which appears to be of the period but for which a print date cannot be determined for definitive Type classification. Essentially, a photo we feel is a Type 1, but which lacks certain elements necessary for definitive dating of the print.

For further information regarding "Type" classification of photographs, please refer to "A Portrait of Baseball Photography" by Fogel, Oser and Yee, and to PSA's website at http://www.psacard.com/Exhib/B-W-Photography/index.html.

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1985 Original Slide Transparency OZZIE SMITH St. Louis Cardinals HOF1985 Original Slide Transparency OZZIE SMITH St. Louis Cardinals HOF
1985 Original Slide Transparency OZZIE SMITH St. Louis Cardinals HOF
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