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Originally Posted by Home Free
Trying to confirm what this seems to be -- a "phantom" photo of former Yankees pitcher Johnny Kucks during a failed spring trial with the Mets in 1963. His MLB career was already over, and he'd spent 1962 with the Cardinals' farm club in Atlanta. Failing to make the Mets, he was returned to the Cardinals, and Atlanta for the '63 season -- his last. Thanks.
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(Found in Photobucket) |
Yes, it's Johnny. The image made its original appearance on the web (so far as I know) on the late Bob Lemke's website
in 2013. It was part of a collection of J.D. McCarthy photos (purchased from an estate sale) he was working on at the time. The collection also included a nice B&W of Clem Labine with the Mets, color Bill Kunkle with the Yanks, the best Jesse Gonder with the Reds you're likely to see, and a few career minor leaguers like Twins catcher John Loncar. Those were some of the ones he shared, at least.