[Merkle923]

This more rightly belongs in the managers or coaches thread but I didn't want it to be lost, since it's something of a great white whale.

Salty Parker was a short-stay infielder with the '36 Tigers and then a major league coach for more than a decade and a half. When Wes Westrum quit as manager of the Mets with days to go in the 1967 season, Parker took over the post. But I knew of only three color images of him in a New York uniform (one Brace shot, and the Mets' two 1967 team pictures).

This one turned up - and if the pose is at all familiar, this is why - when the remaining production materials for the 1966-68 Dexter Press/Coke Premium sets were sold recently. They took a lot of photos and I'll be sharing a number of them after I get the negatives professionally printed. But I wanted to get this one out here now - rephotographed off the negative sitting on a light box - as a Happy Thanksgiving gesture.