Bob Feller with Bob Lemon photograph

Date1954 August

DescriptionA black-and-white photograph of Bob Feller with fellow pitcher Don Lemon. Feller, shown from the waist up wears a Cleveland Indians home uniform. Seated, Feller rests his left hand on his left leg and his right forearm on his right leg. Feller smiles and looks to his right at Lemon while holding a baseball in his right hand. Due to the included background and the relaxed nature of the players this photo was most probably taken in the locker room after a game. Pasted on the reverse (not shown), typed in blue ink is a caption that reads, 1065294. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NEW YORK BUREAU THREATENS TUTOR'S MARK CLEVELAND: TWO NAMES THAT KEEP BOBBING UP IN THE AMERICAN LEAGUE PENNANT RACE, CLEVELAND'S BOB LEMON (LEFT) AND BOB FELLER (RIGHT), MAY BE WRITTEN INTO THE BOOK OF UNIQUE RECORDS BEFORE LONG. LEMON, WITH A GAUDY 18-5 RECORD FOR 1954, NEEDS BUT TWO VICTORIES TO STEP INTO THE CHARMED CIRCLE OF SIX-TIME TWENTY-GAME WINNERS, A DIAMOND VALHALLA NOW TENANTED BY ONE ACTIVE LEAGUER, ODDLY ENOUGH MR. FELLER. THE LATTER, WHO IS GENERALLY CREDITED WITH AIDING LEMON IN HIS SWITCHOVER FROM INFIELDING TO HURLING, IS NO LONGER THE RAPID ROBERT OF OLD, BUT IN HIS 11 AND 2 MARK MAKES HIM ANOTHER BIG WHEEL IN THE INDIANS PENNANT EXPRESS. NX-A HC SPTS MX CUN HAP CREDIT (The copyright for this image is held by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. NBHoF welcomes you to use materials in our collections that are in the public domain and to make fair use of copyrighted materials as defined by copyright law and with proper citation. Detailed rights information is available at http://baseballhall.org/archive-collection/photo. PHOTO) 8/23/54 (JL). Stamped on the reverse (not shown) in purple ink is AUG 30 1954 and EARLY BIRD, along with a newspaper clipping that reads, BOB LEMON first to win twenty. Also on the reverse (not shown), stamped in purple ink, is the date SEP 29 1954 with the newspaper clipping that reads, Bob Lemon. Both stamps indicate the multiple publication dates of the image.

Object numberBL-1968-04131-0101

Publisher New York Herald Tribune (Firm)

Subject Feller, Bob, 1918-2010

Subject Lemon, Bob, 1920-2000

Subject Cleveland Guardians (Baseball team)

Subject Major League Baseball (Organization)

Subject American League of Professional Baseball Clubs

Attributes

Classificationsphotographic materials

Collection NumberBA PHT 002 New York Herald Tribune photographic materials

Dimensions8.5 x 6.75 in.

Copyrighthttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

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