I was able to pick up an awesome snap shot of Chico Hernandez attempting to make a play at the plate. Hopefully the ump didn’t need to review the photo to see that the ball is loose! What a shot!!! I’m going to dig more into the details of the photo to try to learn the name of the other players and the ump. Chico drove in 85 runs and hit .337 for the 1938 Bloomers. He went on to be a part of the first all Latin battery in MLB history when he caught Hiram Bithorn in a Cubs game in 1942.

https://mchistory.org/assets/resources/articles/pantagraph-hernandez-chico-1732307477.pdf

Wacky binder page from my Bloomer collection.

From top left…Elam Vangilder - Bloomer 1917. He won 99 games over 11 big league seasons - mostly with the STL Browns. Andy Woehr was a Bloomer in 1921.Andy played 63 total big league games in 1923 and 1924. The bottom sig and the snap are of Walter “Boom Boom” Beck. Boom Boom played 12 big league seasons and was a Bloomer in 1925. The snap is from 1932 during his time with the Memphis Chickasaws. I love that it has “Boom Boom 28 years old” on the back. Like his mom or grandma wrote it.