Home Collectibles / Collections 1947 AAA baseball program Jersey Giants vs Toronto Maple Leafs
1947 AAA baseball program Jersey Giants vs Toronto Maple Leafs
1947 AAA baseball program Jersey Giants vs Toronto Maple Leafs
1947 AAA baseball program Jersey Giants vs Toronto Maple Leafs
1947 AAA baseball program Jersey Giants vs Toronto Maple Leafs
1947 AAA baseball program Jersey Giants vs Toronto Maple Leafs
1947 AAA baseball program Jersey Giants vs Toronto Maple Leafs
1947 AAA baseball program Jersey Giants vs Toronto Maple Leafs
1947 AAA baseball program Jersey Giants vs Toronto Maple Leafs
1947 AAA baseball program Jersey Giants vs Toronto Maple Leafs
1947 AAA baseball program Jersey Giants vs Toronto Maple Leafs
1947 AAA baseball program Jersey Giants vs Toronto Maple Leafs
1947 AAA baseball program Jersey Giants vs Toronto Maple Leafs
1947 AAA baseball program Jersey Giants vs Toronto Maple Leafs
1947 AAA baseball program Jersey Giants vs Toronto Maple Leafs

1947 AAA baseball program Jersey Giants vs Toronto Maple Leafs

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Scarce International League baseball program, many interesting player names!

Official Program and Scorecard 10¢    Game at Roosevelt Stadium

The Jersey City Giants were the International League AAA affiliate of the New York Giants, Toronto of the Boston Red Sox.  Jersey City won the league title in 1947.

Undated, Toronto played at Roosevelt stadium end of April, in early June, and late July.

Bruno Betzel returned as manager and the team went worst-to-first with a 94-60 mark before again falling in the first round of the playoffs. Myatt returned to play third and hit .303 while SS Virgil Stallcup batted .338 in 78 games. Jack Graham cranked out 34 long balls and Les Layton added 20 more to lead the league's top-scoring offense. Jake Wade (17-5, 2.51) was the ace of a fine staff…

Some players of note in this program:

(JC) Sal Ivars, best remembered as the player on the New York Giants who relayed stolen signals to his teammates awaiting in the batters box during the 1951 pennant-winning season.
(JC) George Edward Myatt, in 1936 Boston Red Sox GM Collins traveled to San Diego to scout him in a minor league game, but came away more impressed with 17-year-old teammate. Collins passed on Myatt and acquired Ted Williams, who became perhaps the greatest modern hitter and was elected, as Collins was, to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
(JC) Newton Michael "Mickey" Grasso, POW in 1943 and lost lost 60 pounds during his internment. Grasso was known for his fiery temper and was one of the Senators' most popular players of the early 1950s
(JC) Robert Max "Sugar" Cain, pitcher with the Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers and St. Louis Browns between 1949 and 1954. Cain was the pitcher who issued a base on balls to Eddie Gaedel, whose single plate appearance made him the shortest person to appear in a major league game.
(T) "Goody" Rosen, 1945 National League All-Star, the first Canadian-born major leaguer ever to be named
(T) Morris Aderholt, described by Dodgers President Branch Rickey as the "World's worst third baseman... but he's a natural batsman."
(T) Casimir James Konstanty, National League Most Valuable Player of 1950.

 

Full of advertising, samples :

  • Canada Dry
  • Morgan beverages
  • Briggs Pipe Mixture
  • Sherman Bows (bowties)
  • Ruppert Beer
  • Schrafft’s Peppermint Patty
  • Coca-Cola
  • Sinclair Opaline Motor Oil

16 pages. Centre pages are scorecard for the game.

Paper is yellowed. Slight tear along spine

9 ¾” x 6 ¾”

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