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Originally Posted by Cusick
This is speculative, and hinges on the year of the photo being 1945.
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Unless our guy is time-travelling, he's not a 1945 Giant. Note the single-striped arm sleeves: for the first seven years of the zip-up jerseys (1940-1946), the Giants had two stripes on the sleeves, as illustrated by the pic of Johnny Gee (1944-1946 in NY), here:
It was only in 1947, the final season the Giants wore the zip-ups before going back to button-ups, that the uniforms had a single stripe on the arm. (According to
Dressed to the Nines, anyhow. But the only variation they show is for 1947, and since Gee the G-Man is clearly not wearing the same uni, I'm inclined to believe this is '47, not '45.)
So either 1947 or the spring of '48, I'd say. The Giants used six catchers in '47 (Walker Cooper, Ernie Lombardi, Wes Westrum, Bennie Warren, Mickey Livingston, Sal Yvars), but I can't say your guy looks like any of them. And I don't know if this is a spring game, as the picture looks as though it was taken at a big-league stadium.
So, I don't know who he is, but I'm inclined to aim a few years down the road from where we've been looking. Anybody got the 1948 spring roster, just to check?
(Making things more interesting is that '48 was the first year the Giants trained in Arizona. No telling if they brought some PCL catchers in for a look-see.)