Double play at 1940 World Series
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Description
View of Detroit Tigers baseball player Barney McCosky sliding into base as Cincinnati Reds shortstop Billy Myers leaps into the air. Umpire Red Ormsby stands nearby. Label on back: "Red shortstop takes to the air as he nips Barney McCosky on fast double play. Note that Billy Myers' feet are both off the ground as he leaps to escape the speeding Tiger's slide. Red Ormsby is the umpire. The play came in the first inning of Saturday's game when Charley Gehringer hit into a double play, Joost to Myers to Frank McCormick. Free Press photo by Walter Steiger." Handwritten on back: "4th game. McCosky out at ... Gehringer hit the ... 1st inning."
Details
- Creator:
- Steiger, Walter
- Resource ID:
- hr005130
- Subject:
- McCosky, Barney (William Barney), 1917-1996
- Myers, Billy (William Harrison), 1910-1995
- Detroit Tigers (Baseball team)
- Cincinnati Reds (Baseball team)
- Umpires
- World Series (Baseball) (1940)
- Photographers--Michigan--Detroit
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- 1940
- Format:
- 1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in.
- Department:
- Ernie Harwell Sports Collection
- Location:
- Photographs-World Series, 1940
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.