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Originally Posted by Merkle923
As promised, a couple more from the Dexter Press negative collection.
Yes, that's Jim Gentile, the man who tied Roger Maris for the American League in RBI (and tied with him for 5th place in WAR) the year Maris broke Babe Ruth's home run record, in color, in camp with the 1967 Phillies.
It goes without saying Gentile didn't make the Phil roster, and had wrapped up his career in Cleveland in 1966. He spent two years with the Philadelphia farm in San Diego trying to make it back, but did not.
An answer on the other requests for the Phillies: there are about 500 negatives and I didn't have them all scanned. Francona (who wasn't in camp with the Phillies in 1967; he was purchased rom the Cardinals on April 10) and Uecker (who was a difficult player to get to pose) are not among them. The best I can do on the others is stick them atop a light box and take shots with my phone).
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I'm a lifelong Phillies fan and I was never even aware that Jim Gentile had gone to Spring Training with the Phillies in 1967. That photo is a great find!