Close-up, bust-length portrait of baseball player Mickey Cochrane of the Detroit Tigers wearing his catcher's mask. Taken at Shibe Park in Philadelphia, Cochrane is dressed in a Tigers road uniform.
Newspaper caption (partial) pasted on verso:" ... Philadelphia, PA - Here is Mickey Cochrane manager-catcher of the leaders of the American League [i.e the Detroit Tigers] as he looked at Shibe Park today when his team-mates split a double-header with the Philadelphia 'A's' 8/29/34."
Forms part of the New York World-Telegram collection at the National Baseball Hall of Fame Library.
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