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Originally Posted by UKBaseballfan
B/W from 1943. Colored from 1944/45
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Thanks for the great photo of Jimmy Wasdell, UK. Those uniforms were so baggy back them. You can almost feel how heavy they were from Wasdell's photo on the left. They were supposed to be Itchy too, because the uniforms back then were made from a very coarse fabric.
Wasdell was an above average player. A number of sources say that he would have been picked for the 1945 All-Star game, if that game had been played. He hit an even .300 that year in an even 500 at bats.
Wasdell hit .273 in a solid 11 year MLB career (1937-1947).