Photograph is of two men wearing matching baseball uniforms. One man is crouched down while another is standing with his hands on his hip. Caption: "Long Earl Huckleberry, right of Seminole, established himself as one of the crack pitchers of the sandlot tourney by fanning 12 batters in his first start. His battery mate, left above, is Conrad Fisher, also the team's manager." Additional information not included in the Daily Oklahoman caption: Earl Eugene Huckleberry was born in Konawa, Oklahoma. He is part of baseball history because his entire major league baseball career consisted of one (1) game. Huckleberry was signed by the Philadelphia Athletics and pitched one game in Philadelphia on Friday, September 13 against the Chicago White Sox. Huckleberry was the winning pitcher in a 14-5 victory. He was sent back to Oklahoma and never played major league baseball again. He continued to pitch for various Oklahoma semi-pro teams through the 1940's.
Photograph is of a man in a baseball uniform reaching out with one foot on a base catching a baseball in his outstretched mitt. Caption: "Terry Edwards"
Officials inspect wreckage of plane. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Officials inspect forlorn heap of smoking metal that was an executive jet plane."
A daylight photograph of Karen Edwards, a golfer from Bartlesville, Washington County, Oklahoma. The image is discolored with red wax pencil edit marks. Caption: "Karen Edwards, Bartlesville."
Firemen sifting through a plane wreckage. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Fireman sift through the wreckage of a Kerr-McGee Corp. plane that crashed in Oklahoma City Tuesday."
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A truck driver escaped injury when his 20-foot refrigerated grocery van caught fire after it overturned on I-240 between Reno and NW 10."
Officials sifting through plane wreckage. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "WRECKAGE SITE. An investigator peers at the remains of a Kerr-McGee Corp. jet which crashed Tuesday in Oklahoma City, killing the pilot and co-pilot, the only two aborad. The dead were Kenneth Blair Hunter, 65, the pilot, and Jack Ernest Garner, 51, both of Oklahoma City."
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A forest of idle drilling rigs is part of the market strategy of Suits Rig Corp., Enid, which amassed a fleet of 71 rigs since the oil industry collapsed in 1982." Photograph is of thirteen modern oil rigs in an open field not in use.
Midwest City Police Chief, Tom Denton, holds the end of a board as city worker, Floyd Brown, saws the board held on a saw horse. Caption: "Tom Denton shows he is eager to get two new police rooms finished as he helps Floyd Brown, city workman, saw a floor board."
Photograph taken during daylight of firefighters working to extinguish a retail business fire with firetrucks and fire hoses. Caption: "A fire that sent dense black smoke soaring high above downtown Oklahoma City today swept through a vacant warehouse building at NW 10 and Broadway, causing $40,000 damage."
Photograph is of a man wearing a military dress uniform sitting at a desk with his hands crossed on top of the desk. Caption: "Air force Col. Joseph R. de Luca, husband of an Oklahoma woman, has been appointed deputy director of Armed Forces Supply Support Center in Washington."
Photograph taken during daylight of firefighters extinguishing a building fire. Caption: "More than $500,000 damage was caused by fire early Friday in downtown Enid when the J. C. Penney Co. store was destroyed and Woolworth and Montgomery Ward stocks were damaged. Above, Enid, Blackwell and Vance Air Force base fireman put water into the Penney building. This picture was flown to Oklahoma City by a Champlin Refining Co. plane."
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Early Morning Crash Kills City Man-- Whang Young Jin, 32, of 604 Westwood, was killed about 6:30 a.m. today when his car, shown above, left the east-bound lane of I-40 near MacArthur and struck a west-bound car driven by Herbert D. Blair, 43, of 5616 Highley Drive."
Photograph taken during daylight of the charred wreckage of a burned building and gas pumps. Caption: "Jackson County Landmark established in 1890 - the Martha Mercantile Store - was destroyed by fire Wednesday after the building apparently was struck by a bolt of lighting. The longtime general merchandise store, which had added a gas station for modern times, was owned by Mrs. C. H. Doughty. She estimated loss at $25,000."
A nighttime photograph of a fire in the downtown business district at Chandler in Lincoln County, Oklahoma. The image shows citizens and firemen using hoses in a failed attempt to save the C & G Grocery & Market from burning. Caption: "TO NO AVAIL, Chandler Firemen work to extinguish a blaze on Main street there . The early-morning fire at C & G Grocery destroyed the structure and caused extensive smoke damage to three adjoining business places."
Photograph is of a fire pump truck parked in front of the J.C. Penny's building. Three fire hoses and a fully opened fire ladder are maned and spraying open water hoses on the fire. There is a ladder leaning against the building leading to a window that flames are visible through. The brightness from the flames and the billows of smoke are rising from the destroyed roof of the structure. Caption: "a $500,000 fire destroyed the J. C. Penney store here early Friday and damaged adjoining Montgomery Ward and Woolworth's firms with smoke and water. The three business buildings are located on the north side of the downtown square."
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