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Originally Posted by DeweyintheHall
This is it for me on ole' Stan for 2023....he may have signed 6/13 and been released on 9//23, but he was only with the big club from 7/21 when Duane Josephson went on the DL until Luis Aparicio came off the DL on 8/4. Otherwise he was getting into 26 games in Louisville.
During this period, when the Sox weren't in Fenway, they played at Yankee Stadium and Tiger Stadium. None of these locations are known for their arboreal splendor.
Best I think we can say is while this photo was not taken during his stint with the Sox before his September release in 1972, it pre-dates his return to the club as Bristol's manager in 1974.
The more I look at the picture, the more it looks as if, although the player in the background is wearing their road grays, he himself may be in the home whites. Was he perhaps a special instructor of some kind during Spring training in 1973? I can't find any references to him in the Globe during that time.
I may go ahead and call this as a good image of him for my own purposes , but the questions will remain, it seems.
Happy New Year!
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To bring the Great Stan Williams hunt to a close, at least for now, I did reach out to the Red Sox Alumni Affairs Office to see whether they could ID the source/date of the image of Stan in the navy cap. They could not.
So, it is clear that during his brief stint in 1972 he would have worn the navy cap, but it is equally clear that this picture wasn't taken at a MLB park.
The next time he officially wore a Boston uni after 1972 was as a coach in 1975, when he wore the red cap.
Therefore, until another image comes up, I am going to scratch Williams from my list of needed Red Sox images and use this for Williams in my ongoing project.