In 1984, The Sporting News came out with this calendar, featuring portraits of baseball greats from what many consider to be the golden age of sport -- the Roaring Twenties. The photos were taken by Charles Martin Conlon (1868-1945), baseball's first prominent photographer whose most famous shot is that of Ty Cobb sliding into third base during a game in 1910.
I purchased the calendar late last year from Larry Fritsch Cards, for the photos and on the assurance that it would work for 2012 (and so far it has, with the exception that Easter fell two weeks later in 1984). So, that's how I came to be using a 1984 calendar for the year 2012! (Hard to believe it was 28 years ago!)
As you can tell from the name of this blog, I thought it might be fun to challenge all you baseball aficionados out there in blogland. So, in the coming weeks and months, I'll post the player's picture for that particular month (I'm getting a late start), with a few hints, and see if you can guess who it is.
In the meantime, here's some of what was going on in 1984:
- Ronald Reagan was president
- The Detroit Tigers won the World Series, beating the Padres in five games
- The Apple Macintosh was introduced, costing $2,495
- Iacocca: an Autobiography topped the nonfiction bestsellers' list
- Gas was $1.19 a gallon
- Trivial Pursuit, the board game, was introduced, grossing $777 million in its first year
- The Cosby Show debuted on NBC
- Marvin Gaye was shot to death by his father
- The Summer Olympics, boycotted by the Soviet Union, were held in Los Angeles
- Top song: "Owner of a Lonely Heart" by Yes
- Top movie: Beverly Hills Cop
No comments:
Post a Comment