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Comiskey Park
American League
Top Row, L-R: Batboy; Bill Conroy, Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, Oral Hildebrand, Connie Mack (Mgr.), Joe Cronin, Lefty Grove, Batboy John McBride, Bill Dickey, Al Simmons, Lefty Gomez, Wes Ferrell, Jimmy Dykes.
Bottom Row: L-R: Al Schacht, Eddie Collins, Tony Lazzeri, Alvin Crowder, Jimmy Foxx, Art Fletcher, Earl Averill, Ed Rommel, Ben Chapman, Rick Ferrell, Sam West, Charlie Gehringer.
the angle of the pic is interesting too....
Jimmy Dykes, standing at the right end of the row, was 5'9 and Babe Ruth was 6'2, but by the angle, Jimmy dwarfs the Babe.
Also, Joe Cronin was 27 when this pic was taken, but he looks like he would have had trouble covering much ground at shortstop. He looks huge
John Mcbride, Batboy In 1st All-star Game
October 10, 1998|By Meg McSherry Breslin, Tribune Staff Writer.
John McBride, a White Sox batboy who was possibly the last living member from the game's first All-Star team in 1933, died Thursday following a heart attack in Memorial Medical Center in Woodstock. Mr. McBride, 84, lived in Woodstock and was a former resident of Chicago and Evergreen Park.
While a young boy growing up just a few blocks from Comiskey Park, Mr. McBride would collect discarded bottles at the park in exchange for entry to the next day's game. By age 10, he sold seat cushions and, as he recalled, shamed plenty of men into buying them for their dates.
By the time Mr. McBride reached 14, the White Sox clubhouse manager knew him well enough to ask him to be a batboy. Mr. McBride was thrilled at the opportunity, even though the job wasn't salaried. Instead, his payment was a ball that had been played that day, which he promptly had autographed and sold for as much as $5, a hefty sum for a teenager during the Depression.
American League
Top Row, L-R: Batboy; Bill Conroy, Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, Oral Hildebrand, Connie Mack (Mgr.), Joe Cronin, Lefty Grove, Batboy John McBride, Bill Dickey, Al Simmons, Lefty Gomez, Wes Ferrell, Jimmy Dykes.
Bottom Row: L-R: Al Schacht, Eddie Collins, Tony Lazzeri, Alvin Crowder, Jimmy Foxx, Art Fletcher, Earl Averill, Ed Rommel, Ben Chapman, Rick Ferrell, Sam West, Charlie Gehringer.
the angle of the pic is interesting too....
Jimmy Dykes, standing at the right end of the row, was 5'9 and Babe Ruth was 6'2, but by the angle, Jimmy dwarfs the Babe.
Also, Joe Cronin was 27 when this pic was taken, but he looks like he would have had trouble covering much ground at shortstop. He looks huge
John Mcbride, Batboy In 1st All-star Game
October 10, 1998|By Meg McSherry Breslin, Tribune Staff Writer.
John McBride, a White Sox batboy who was possibly the last living member from the game's first All-Star team in 1933, died Thursday following a heart attack in Memorial Medical Center in Woodstock. Mr. McBride, 84, lived in Woodstock and was a former resident of Chicago and Evergreen Park.
While a young boy growing up just a few blocks from Comiskey Park, Mr. McBride would collect discarded bottles at the park in exchange for entry to the next day's game. By age 10, he sold seat cushions and, as he recalled, shamed plenty of men into buying them for their dates.
By the time Mr. McBride reached 14, the White Sox clubhouse manager knew him well enough to ask him to be a batboy. Mr. McBride was thrilled at the opportunity, even though the job wasn't salaried. Instead, his payment was a ball that had been played that day, which he promptly had autographed and sold for as much as $5, a hefty sum for a teenager during the Depression.
