Times Quotidian » Bobby Thomson http://www.timesquotidian.com ...an Infinite Amount of Things to Speak Of Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:38:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 At The Polo Grounds http://www.timesquotidian.com/2009/04/05/at-the-polo-grounds/ http://www.timesquotidian.com/2009/04/05/at-the-polo-grounds/#comments Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:44:23 +0000 Nancy Cantwell http://www.timesquotidian.com/?p=2149 This is my Valentine to Baseball. And what better day to post than the opening of the 2009 Season, the Dodgers vs. Giants!

These are photographs taken with a stereoscopic camera. They were shot at the Polo Grounds(IV), dated 1951-52, I am not really sure. But what I do know is that the Great Willie Mays is playing, Bobby “The Shot Heard Round the World” Thomson is playing and Leo “The Lip” Durocher is managing the New York Giants. This Giants’ roster also included Sal “The Barber” Maglie,  famous for throwing “chin music”, hence the legacy, effectual, close shave.

My grandfather is the photographer and my grandmother is the silver haired lady with the best sunglasses on the planet! They were friends of the Durochers and when Leo came to California to coach the Dodgers, I too, got to sit behind home plate and get a close-up view of Don Drysdale go into a complete meltdown. The drama was spectacular!!! And I was hooked.

This post marks a bit of new technology for Times Quotidian, a Slideshow. So click on any image and you can thumb through the slideshow. Please spend some time with the captions. They contain many play by play details.

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