The Pecan Park Eagle

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!