[Willie Mays signing the contract as the highest paid player in baseball in front of Giants President Horace Stoneham and Manager Bill Rigney]

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Local identifier: AAK-0657
Title: [Willie Mays signing the contract as the highest paid player in baseball in front of Giants President Horace Stoneham and Manager Bill Rigney]
Date: 1960 Jan. 26
Issuance: monographic
Associated Group: San Francisco Call Bulletin
San Francisco News-Call Bulletin
Collection: San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
Type of Resource: still image
Physical Description: 1 photographic print : b&w ; 18 x 23 cm. (7 1/4 x 9 in.)
Form: graphic
Use and Reproduction: Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library: www.sfpl.org/permissions.
Note: Folder: Portraits - Mays, Willie - 1960-1965.
Written on back: "SAN FRANCISCO BUREAU-HIGHEST PAID BALLPLAYER?-SAN FRANCISCO: The San Francisco giants called a press conference here 1/26, to announce the signing of outfielder Willie Mays, as the highest paid player in baseball. The rumor was that Mays received a $5000 raise, which would bring his pay to $85,000. Shown at signing are, L-R: Giants president Horace Stoneham: manager Bill Rigney: and Willie Mays. SXP012602 UPI PHOTO SXP A, smtd 1/26/60 jh."
Language (code): eng
Genre: graphic
Portrait photographs.
LCSH Subjects: San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Mays, Willie, 1931-
Subject Name: Mays, Willie
1931-
Bibliographic Number: .b10385782
Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12352/islandora:153166