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From the March 6, 1927 issue of the Medford Mail Tribune (Medford, Oregon), Page 20: www.newspapers.com/newspage/113681113/ "Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, a Californian, wielding the knife, the world's largest pie is cut and served in Washington to several hundred guests at the annual dinner of the California State Society. The pie was made with prunes from the California ranch of Representative Arthur M. Free and weighed more than 700 pounds. It was baked under the supervision of Mrs. Walter Johnson, California girl and wife of the Washington team's pitching ace."

Good find TVL1970. We'll add this information to the catalog record. I found another article which said it was 5 feet across and 6 inches deep. No word on how it tasted.

We recently found some old catalog cards for Harris & Ewing that had a caption for this photo, although in this case I think our commenters did a better. Harris & Ewing's caption for this photo was simply: "Secretary Hoover and pie."

Per Wikapedia - Pitcher Born: February 16, 1897 Montclair, New Jersey Died: April 26, 1976 (aged 79) Sepulveda, California Batted: RightThrew: Right MLB debut August 16, 1918, for the New York Yankees Last MLB appearance May 18, 1929, for the Brooklyn Robins MLB statistics Win–loss record61-85 Earned run average4.89 Strikeouts397 Teams New York Yankees (1918, 1921) Boston Red Sox (1922–1925) New York Yankees (1925) Washington Senators (1925–1926) Philadelphia Phillies (1927–1929) Brooklyn Robins (1929) James Alexander Ferguson (February 16, 1897 – April 26, 1976) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for five different teams between 1918 and 1929. Listed at 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m), 180 lb., Ferguson batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Montclair, New Jersey and died in Sepulveda, California, at age 79. Professional career[edit] Ferguson was one of the first forkball specialists in major league history. He entered the majors in 1918 with the New York Yankees, playing for them two years (1918, 1921) before joining the Boston Red Sox (1922–1925), Washington Senators (1925–1926), again the Yankees (1925), and with the Philadelphia Phillies (1927–1929) and Brooklyn Robins (1925). He enjoyed his highest win season in 1924 with the seventh-place Red Sox, when he won 14 games while losing an American League-high 17. In 1925 he divided his playing time with Boston, New York and Washington, ending with a 5–1 mark and a 3.25 ERA in seven games for the Senators AL champion team. During the World Series, he pitched well against the Pittsburgh Pirates, going 1–1 with a 3.21 ERA in two starts. In a 10-season career, Ferguson posted a 61–85 record with 397 strikeouts and a 4.89 ERA in 257 appearances, including 166 starts, 62 complete games, two shutouts, 10 saves, and 1241⅔ innings of work. In 1926 Ferguson set a major league record for the highest ERA during a regular season by a pitcher who started a postseason game the same year. Ferguson collected a combined 6.18 ERA while pitching with the Red Sox, Yankees and Senators. The mark was broken in 2006 by Óliver Pérez of the New York Mets, who posted a 6.55 ERA during the regular season before starting Game 4 of the NL Championship Series.

really odd sharpness & depth of field with these leaf shutter lenses

I find no Harry Cooper listed as a St. Louis Terriers player, but there is a Henry Keupper who pitched for them in 1914, and baseball-reference.com uses this picture with his entry: www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/keupphe01.shtml LOC, any info on how theSABR committee did its identification?

artolog: It is indeed Henry Keupper. We checked with our colleagues at SABR and they acknowledge their error. We'll add this to our correction and update queue.