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Lot # 390: Buck Leonard and Homestead Grays at Polo Grounds 1945 Wire Photograph

Starting Bid: $200.00

Bids: 1 (Bid History)

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Item was in Auction "June 2005",
which ran from 5/30/2005 12:00 AM to
6/26/2005 9:00 PM



Buck Leonard's proudly confident expression as he stands with Homestead Grays teammate Roy Welmaker and two New York Cubans officials before a May 26, 1945 game in the Polo Grounds is a marker of the Negro leagues' resolute conviction that they belonged on any big league field. It's a crime that Leonard, the greatest Negro league 1B, was kept out of such parks as a big leaguer, but his HOF berth is well deserved. Standing with he and Welmaker are New York Cuban officials L.J. Blanco Chataing and Bernardo Vizcaya. Rare sepia toned 8 x10 with Puerto Rican wire service stamp on back is EX with one fold mark just below the middle.

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