Final mystery photo! Who are the three men with cleanly shaven pates?
They are from left to right: Rocky Bridges, Pete Reiser, and Fred Koenig. They were all coaches for the California Angels in 1971.
Also, the mysterious batter in the 1963 World Series photo has been confirmed (at least to my satisfaction) as Bobby Richardson. I updated the link with the evidence.
The guy on the right looks pretty tall. The B-R PI tells me that the tallest position players for the Angels in the sixties, at 6'4", were Tom Egan, Dick Stuart, Joe Adcock, Len Gabrielson, Dick Simpson, and Frank Leja.
4 If you think about it, you can figure out where all these photos are sourced. From there, it just takes a little digging to find the original captioned photo.
Woah wait Bob, didn't Score Bard do something like this once upon a time? Can we start e-mailing you photos from random ballgames so people can figure out where they came from?
Pete Reiser! I died when the Bums traded Bobby V. to the Halos. Because he ran into walls, I though he was the second coming of Reiser (I blame Vinny).
I'll guess that the guy on the right is Stuart.
The guy in the middle is a former All-Star.
And that's why it's the last photo!
Rocky Bridges is indeed the man on the left.
It is one of my oldest baseball memories of the Angels.
Please don't let this be the last one.
I have written about the first major league I attended on this blog before.
It was an Angels-Tigers game in 1971.
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