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Larry Sherry 1959
I know why a shot in an Angels' uni of the unexpected relief star of the '59 World Series should be a scarce commodity: quick research indicates the Cherubs purchased him from Seattle of the Pacific Coast League on July 1, 1968, pitched him on the 2nd, 4th, and 7th, then sold him to the old Hawaii Islanders on July 12th.
What I don't get is, since he spent the first three days of his final stint in the majors at Tiger Stadium in the presence of the meticulous photographer J.D. McCarthy, why if McCarthy posed him - in color - this image has only turned up recently. Sherry died in 2006, so autographed photos would obviously date to before then.
In any event, one was sold in a Pristine Auctions sale last month and thus just popped up in a Google Image search. I followed a few links and voila: a pretty clean copy of a very scarce whale...
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