On this day in 1950, the Winston-Salem Cardinals baseball team won the Carolina League Pennant.
This win was the first pennant win for the team in 22 years.
The players in the photo are:
Front row: Ed Polak, Jack Huesman, Earl Weaver, George Kissell (Manager), Lee Peterson, Jim Neufeldt, Bob Mills.
Second row: Dick Umberger, Bobby Tiefenauer, Neal Hertweck, George Condrick, Gene Barth, Hal Atkinson, J. C. Dunn, Wilmer Mizell.
Back row: Ken Morgan, Bill LaFrance, Russell Rac.
Hoyt Benedict joined the club after the photo was made.
Photo courtesy of Forsyth County Public Library Photograph Collection.
