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Originally Posted by infieldfly
pallette.fm, et al.
Cap logo obviously pasted on...couldn't quite get a natural look on that.
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Thank you for the excellent outcome in respect of the Harper image.
Thanks also for the Rush colorization and yes that is Shag Shaugnessy.
Here is a 1924 image of Pittsburgh Pirates catcher Johnny Gooch from 1924.
Switch hitter and right handed throwing catcher Gooch made his Major League debut in 1921 with the Pirates, in September appearing in 13 games. In 1922 he took over from Walter Schmidt as the Pittsburgh starting catcher appearing in 105 games with impressive figures of .329 batting and .403 on-base averages. He also set career highs in total bases with 140, slugging .397 and an OPS of .800. For the next 4 seasons Gooch was relegated to a back-up role, initially to 36 year old Schmidt and then to Earl Smith. In 1927 he regained the starting role appearing in over 100 games for the second time in his career, posting a career high of 48 RBI. On June 8, 1928 he was traded along with Joe Harris to Brooklyn for Charlie Hargreaves who took on the starting catcher role with Pittsburgh. Hargreaves had become expendable in Brooklyn with the emergence of Hank DeBerry. However early in 1929 Brooklyn required another upgrade at Catcher and traded for Val Picinich from the Cincinnati Reds trading Gooch and Rube Ehrhardt in return. Gooch took the opportunity to establish himself in the starting role at Cincinnati batting .300. In 1930 Clyde Sukeforth became the starter with the Reds and Gooch appeared in 82 games as a substitute. Subsequently Gooch did not appear again in the Majors until appearing in 37 games in his final season with 1933 Boston Red Sox.