Baseball Pictures > [New York Giants Opening Day Line-Up at the Polo Grounds [New York]. Left to Right: Fred Snodgrass, Tillie Shafer, George Burns, Larry Doyle, Red Murray, Fred Merkle, Buck Herzog, Chief Meyers (Baseball)] (LOC)

budderflyman June 17, 2010 at 8:00 pm

Fred Merkle was famous for his "boner." Merkle’s Boner was when he neglected to touch second base in the last game of 1908, and thus the Giants lost to the Cubs, had to play a playoff game and the Cubs won and then won the World Series….and THAT was the last time the Cubs won the World Series. Had it not been for Merkle’s Boner, the Cubs would not have gone to the Series in 1908.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Merkle

BƛƬƲĐΐƧƮƐ June 17, 2010 at 8:04 pm

fabulous picture.

Mark in NOVA June 17, 2010 at 8:49 pm

This is from April 10, 1913 according to the picture.

budderflyman June 17, 2010 at 9:19 pm

Merkle was playing in 1913. He played quite a few years in the majors. I was just talking about his boner in 1908.

budderflyman June 17, 2010 at 9:39 pm

Chief Meyers was a very good catcher, one of the best of his time. He lived a long life, I think he was nearly 90 when he died.

The Library of Congress June 17, 2010 at 9:52 pm

We’re still working on getting the dates to match! When we first uploaded the photos, we didn’t have 4-digit years in all our records, so we used an early default date for each set.

paul.barfoot June 17, 2010 at 10:19 pm

Snodgrass – OF,
Shafer – SS,
Burns – OF,
Doyle – 2B,
Murray – OF,
Merkle – 1B,
Herzog – 3B,
Meyers – C

Would Mathewson have been pitching?

yankeefan1959 June 17, 2010 at 10:24 pm

Incredible photo!

yodiddydawg June 17, 2010 at 11:16 pm

o man thats a pretty awesome pic, im related to merkle