DATE: 1940s ORIGINAL or REPRINT: Original - Printed from the original negative in the time period in which it was shot TEAM: Brooklyn Dodgers SUBJECT: Van Mungo APPROXIMATE SIZE: 5-1/8"x3-1/8" and 4-1/8"x3-5/8" NUMBER OF PHOTOS: 2 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: Van Lingle Mungo was born in 1911 in Pageland, SC and died in 1985 in Pageland, SC. He played major league baseball from 1931 to 1945 as pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants, and was selected 4 times as an All-Star. Mungo was largely forgotten after he retired from baseball after the 1945 season, but was brought back into considerable notoriety in 1969 because of the use of his prosodic name as the title of a novelty song by Dave Frishberg. The song lyrics consist entirely of the names of baseball players of the 1940s, strung together with a bossa nova beat, but Mungo is one of only five players mentioned more than once and his name functions as a kind of refrain. According to Frishberg, The Dick Cavett Show arranged to have him sing the song to Mungo in person, and Mungo asked him backstage if there would ever be any financial remuneration for the use of his name in the song. Frishberg then told him no, but maybe Mungo could make some money if he wrote a song called "Dave Frishburg." Ironically, today Mungo is remembered primarily because of the song. The song "lyrics" can be found on the Baseball Almanac website at: http://www.baseball-almanac.com/poetry/vanlinglemungo.shtml and as of this writing, a video setting classic images of the players mentioned over Frischberg's tune can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKzobTlF8fM SKU: L00058
Item: L00058
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