Who’s in this picture with Larry Miggins? Guess now because most of the answers are revealed in the following narrative.
That wonderful Cardinals dugout photo that we used yesterday in the Miggins MLB HR story yesterday is a new find for many of us. I had never seen it until one of the adult Miggins sons, Neil Miggins, e-mailed it to me on 10/30/13. The Miggins family also had only discovered it when they found it among photos in a recent Time magazine pictorial on the great Stan Musial.
Can you imagine how that must have felt? To be perusing your way through one of America’s last iconic magazine periodicals and – hold 0n – oh my gosh – there’s Dad – and he’s sitting right there in the dugout as a young man in a Cardinals uniform – leaning intently forward into his look upon the field – and he’s also sitting between two Hall of Fame members – Stan Musial and Red Schoendienst!
Who else is in the photo? Here are the names of all, but two:
Far right: That’s pitcher Joe Presko in the Cardinals jacket and cap. A balding third baseman Tommy Glaviano appears to be whispering into Joe’s ear.
Directly behind Larry Miggins: That’s Solly Hemus.
People you (should) already recognize: That’s Stan Musial, sitting to the immediate left of Miggins; Red Schoendienst is seated to Larry’s immediate right.
To the right of Solly Hemus in the second row: I can’t recall the name of the doctor/trainer in white to Solly’s immediate right, but that’s pitcher Vinegar Bend Mizell in the warm up jacket seated to the “Doc’s” immediate right. I also don’t recognize that hard-to-see face down the row from Mizell’s right.
Let us know how you did with a comment below. And if you think you know the identities of our two unidentified people, please enlighten us here too.
And have a peaceful, laid back Sunday!
The Pecan Park Eagle 
November 10, 2013 at 2:09 pm |
The Cardinals’ trainer was Harrison J. “Doc” Weaver.
My guess for the unidentified player behind Red Schoendienst would be pitcher Mike Clark. Too bad we don’t know the date of the photo. Clark’s major league debut was 7/27/52. If the photo was shot earlier in the season, that would rule him out.
November 10, 2013 at 3:51 pm |
Thanks, Bill. I had forgotten about Doc Weaver.
November 10, 2013 at 3:18 pm |
I got to meet Vinegar Bend Mizell when he was a Congressman from North Carolina. From 1968 to 1973 I was stationed at the Pentagon and assigned to Legislative Liaison in the Secretarty of the Air Force’s office. As a Major I escorted a general officer to Mizellis office to discuss some issue involving the Air Force in North Carolina. I don’t recall the exact year but it was a pleasant meeting and Mizell was quite gracious.
November 10, 2013 at 3:24 pm |
Could be maybe Fred Martin, or Johnny Duche
November 10, 2013 at 11:52 pm |
Unidentified “player” looks a lot like coach Johnny Riddle to me. Check out his baseball card with google.
November 11, 2013 at 4:23 am |
I think you’ve nailed it, Mike. As you also know by now, Bill Hickman also thinks that Riddle is a stronger possibility than his own guess of Mike Clark – and you also got a “might be” John Riddle nod below in the comment from Shirley Virdon,
November 11, 2013 at 2:35 am |
Could that be Bill Sarni? I can’t remember when he came up, but he was there in 1955 when my Bill was there along with Del Rice. It might be John Riddle as he does look a bit older than the others. I’m thinking it was possibly a bit earlier in the 50’s though, as I don’t remember Joe Presko being there in ’55. In ’56 Frank Lane traded a lot—-Bill, Sarni, Rice, Haddix?, several others and finally Schoendienst!
September 18, 2015 at 4:34 pm |
That is John Riddle, coach for St. Louis