Originally Posted by Merkle923
My friend's other research - and he's into this enough that he's determined this image was taken between July 24 and July 27, 1969 - identifies everybody in this first of two team photos for the Seattle Pilots.
Remarkably, two of the handful of Pilots for whom no color posed shot is known, are in this shot. Garry Roggenburk - who quit baseball within hours or days of this picture being taken - is in the back row, third from the left, in uniform 39 (the guy at the far left of the back row is Steve Whitaker, who has nothing but mediocre color images of himself in a Seattle uniform).
And at the far left of the middle row is Gordon Lund, who spent a month as a Pilots' utilityman.
Lord knows where an original higher-quality copy of this image might be found but I'm looking.
(For the record, the player/coaches ID's are, Front Row: Plaza, Crosetti, Schultz, Maglie, O'Brien, Donaldson, Harper. Middle Row: Lund, Gil, Bouton, Oyler, Pattin, Talbot, Segui, Locker, Simpson, Gelnar, Ranew, Davis, Hovley, Clark. Back Row: Whitaker, Barber, Roggenburk, Goossen, Brabender, Pagliaroni, Mincher, O'Donoghue, McNertney).
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