Minor League Baseball Players

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[FatJack]

Originally Posted by rlumpkin1@tampabay.rr.com

are there any known team photo's or player photo's for these teams. 1970-71 Burlington Senators, 1970-71 Pittsfield Senators, 1971 Denver Bears, 1970-71 Geneva Senators and 1970-71 Anderson Senators? Thanks for any info.

There are a very large number of 1971 Denver Bears pictures at Getty. The full-sized images bear Getty's watermark, but still...

(Click on an image to load a separate window. Click in the center of the image in the separate window--the prompts show up as you hover--for the fill sized watermarked image)

Below are an image of Garland Shifflett with the '71 Bears (from Baseball-Birthdays) and an image of Pete Mackanin with the 1970 Burlington Senators (from eBay).

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Can anyone tell me who is who in this 1970 Anderson Senators team photo?

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From 1968 Geneva Times this is Jeff Terpko for Geneva Senators

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from 1971 Geneva times 1971 Geneva Senators Mike Cubbage

[FatJack]

Alberto "Chi Chi" Zamora with the 1971 Geneva Senators (from the Geneva Times of July 8, 1971). The Cuban born Zamora had been an ace reliever at Miami High School. His first victory in pro ball was a complete game shutout. But Chi Chi only played two seasons of pro ball--both with Geneva--and only 6 of his 37 professional outings were starts. He finished with a career record of 4 - 7 (with 7 saves) and an ERA of 4.10.

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Does anyone have a High School photo or college photo of Lee M. Zandy? 1962-63 Bishop Guilfoyle High School, 1964-66 Fordham University or any Minor League photo's. Also are there any 1969 Billings Mustangs newspaper clippings of players? Also looking for Bob Mavis later photo's as a manager or coach. Thanks for any replies..

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[Cusick]

Gary Marks was a pitcher who was a non-roster invitee with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1972. He died last week on August 16 after a valiant battle with cancer. The photo is from the Topps Vault.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/re...d=marks-001gar

[wunderman]

NHL star Maurice "Rocket" Richard played quite a bit of fast semipro ball and one year of full pro ball in 1947 with the Drummondville Cubs of the Provincial League. Here he is in the uniform of the Lachine team of the semi-pro/independent version of the Provincial League. His Canadiens hockey team-mate Doug Harvey (not to be confused with the umpire of the same name) also played minor league pro ball but I have not found a picture of him in a baseball uniform.

[Cusick]

Here's a photo of hockey-playing Doug Harvey. Doug was an outfielder who won the Border League batting title with Ottawa in 1949.

The photo is from the Ottawa Journal of September 17, 1949. The newspaper calls the team the Ottawa Nationals. Baseball-reference and THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL cite the team as the Ottawa Senators.

Doug Harvey Register Statistics & History | Baseball-Reference.com

[Cusick]

Pitcher Ed Morris was the first Afro-American to try out with the Pittsburgh Pirates. He was in the spring camp of the 1951 Pirates. He had formerly been with the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro Leagues.

I could not pick up any evidence from the newspapers that the Pirates signed him or sent him to any of their minor league affiliates. He is not listed in baseball-reference.com.

The photo is from the Pittsburgh Press of March 9, 1951.

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here is a photo of Tom Berg from 1965 Franklin High School Yearbook. He played for Newark Co-Pilots in 1968 and Billings Mustangs in 1969. Went to University of Puget Sound from 1966-68. was not drafted. He was dating the daughter of a night club owner Frank Sugia, who knew Edo Vanni and told Edo about him and Edo had Berg try out and like what he saw and was signed to a Newark Co-Pilots contract and was in the starting rotation a week later for the Co-Pilots.

[Cusick]

Second baseman Art Mazmanian was a non roster invitee with the Yankees in 1952. More remarkable than his minor league playing career was his managerial career. He was a skipper in the minors for 18 seasons. One of his accomplishments in that capacity was discerning that Jack Clark would be better off as a position player than as a pitcher. He made that change to Clark's career in 1973.

A part of Mazmanian's background which baseball-reference.com fails to mention is that he attended the University of Southern California, and starred in baseball there.

The photo is from a website called baseballhappenings.net.

Art Mazmanian Register Statistics & History | Baseball-Reference.com

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from 1968 Rock Hill High School Yearbook is Marty West and Jimmy Laughridge both were Drafted By the Pilots in 1968 Marty was there 1st pick in the 4th round and there first ever pick and Jimmy Laughridge was there pick in the 14th round. Marty signed, Laughridge did not. Marty played for Newark Co-Pilots in 1968 and Jimmy Laughridge played for 1969 Geneva Pirates. Baseball reference list him as Willie Laughridge, but Yearbook list him as Jimmy Laughridge.

[Pinetarpress]

This is Larry Jones he was drafted 3 times...First by the Red Sox (28th round)in 1973 out of Seminole HS....He chose to attend Florida State where he was drafted in the 4th round by the Red Sox in 1976 and in the 5th round in 1977 by the Orioles.

He spent 1979-81 with the Orioles AAA club at Rochester before moving on to the Cubs...He pitched in AAA for Iowa in 82 and parts of 83 before moving on to the Tigers AAA club at Evansville where he finished out his career. A career that saw him finish with a 63-58 record and a 3.67 E.R.A over 7 seasons and 207 games pitched

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from the 1968 Pomona High School Yearbook Doug Bird

[FatJack]

Bob Caton passed away on January 11, 2015, but the news only just made it to the Necrology sites. Caton was born in 1932, not 1936 as Baseball-Reference has it. He was a star in both baseball and football in high school and was drafted into the Army upon graduating. Upon discharge, he got a tryout with the Yankees, but a shoulder injury kept him from being signed. He returned home to the Pacific Northwest and attended Yakima Valley Community College, where we went 18 - 4 for the school's baseball team in 1952-53. He continued his education at Central Washington State. Caton became an educator, teaching physical ed and coaching football.

Before settling in Port Townsend (WA), however, where he would spend the majority of his teaching career, Bob had the opportunity to pitch for the Yakima Braves in what would be their championship season in 1959. Bob worked out of the pen and finished 0 - 2 over 10 games, but generally pitched better than that and had good strikeout totals. In the summer of 1961, he got another such opportunity, and pitched briefly for the Spokane Indians. In 6 innings, he surrendered 10 earned runs and that was the end of Bob's pro baseball career. Both professional stops demonstrate how baseball worked back then. There were hundreds of minor league clubs and they would fill out their rosters with local talent.

Bob got to coach all three of his sons in football (his daughter was a cheerleader). After he retired, he was a state champion in archery, taught scuba diving, and built and flew planes.

The pictures below are mostly ones that accompanied Bob's obituary. We have what I guess is a graduation or yearbook image, a high school football image, and a baseball image from the local Elks. The last image is Bob signing the contract with Spokane taken from the July 1, 1961 Spokesman-Review (Bob is on the left, Dodgers scout Buck Bailey on the right, and Spokane Indians president Spencer Harris standing).

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Enos Cabell from 1967 Gardena High School Yearbook