Cubs historical sleuthing: Joe Torre edition, take 2

Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty ImagesA number of you pointed out that in my original attempt to sleuth this photo, I was likely incorrect for a number of reasons, but primarily because in the game I had thought it was from, Wednesday, September 16, 1970, Joe Torre ... wasn’t the catcher.

In fact, if I had looked more carefully at Torre’s 1970 game log, he had more or less stopped catching by mid-August. He started just three games behind the plate after August 12 and caught partial games two other times. As I note in the original post, Torre didn’t catch at all — not once — after 1970.

So one original thought was correct. This has to be from 1970, because Torre caught games for the Cardinals…