DATE: 1926 ORIGINAL or REPRINT: Type 4 - Second or later-generation photo, printed from a duplicate negative or wire photo process, in a later period TEAM: Chicago Cubs SUBJECT: Gabby Hartnett APPROXIMATE SIZE: 3-1/2"x5-1/2" MARKS / STAMPING: Handwritten identification of photo's subject. Has standard postcard back but remains postally unused. NUMBER OF PHOTOS: 1 COMMENTS / CONDITION: Offered is an approximately 3-1/2"x5-1/2" real photo postcard of Gabby Hartnett, pictured in his Chicago Cubs uniform circa 1926. Has standard postcard back but remains postally unused. Please see scans of the actual card for further details including condition. BIO: Charles Leo Hartnett was born in 1900 in Woonsocket, RI and died in 1972 in Park Ridge, IL. He played major league baseball from 1922 to 1941 as catcher for the Chicago Cubs and a single season with the New York Giants, appeared in the 1929, 1932, 1935 and 1938 World Series, was selected 6 times as an All-Star, and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1955. On September 28, 1938, with the Cubs trailing Pittsburgh by only half a game, he experienced the highlight of his career. The lightless Wrigley Field was gradually being overcome by darkness in a hard-fought game with the Pirates, the score tied 5-5; if it had become too dark, the game would have needed to be replayed from the beginning. With two out in the bottom of the ninth, two strikes on him, and the umpires ready to end the game, Hartnett launched a shot into the gloom and haze which would be remembered as his "Homer in the Gloamin'". The Cubs were now in first place, culminating a tremendous 19-3-1 September run, and the pennant would be clinched three days later. Hartnett's bat and catcher's mask were the first artifacts sent to the newly constructed Baseball Hall of Fame in 1938. In 1981, Lawrence Ritter and Donald Honig included him in their book The 100 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time. In 1999, he was named as a finalist to the Major League Baseball All-Century Team. SKU: L09936
Item: L09936
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