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Black and white group photograph of the St. Mary's Gaels baseball team meeting their new coach Johnny Vergez. Vergez is kneeling (left) with a row of 5 boys sitting and 11 more boys standing behind them. Vergez is wearing a jacket over slacks and dress shoes and has a bat in his hands. The boy sitting far right also has a baseball bat. Most boys are dressed in sweats and many are holding gloves--Brod Erziner (far right) is holding a catchers mit. All the boys are looking at Vergez and everyone is smiling. Photograph is taken in a grass field with trees and hills in the background. Caption on back of photo reads: "Johnny Vergez, at extreme left, formally introduces himself to the St. Mary's Gaels following his appointment as baseball coach at the Moraga institution. Listening to Vergez in the top row (left to right) are Joe Fairleigh, Rudy Urbani, Norm Piner, Jack Rial, Red Mullins, Hal Stanford, Dennis Murphy, Charles Abel, John Vinter, Bob Shippen and Brod Erziner. Front row, (left to right) Vergez, Jim Baratta, Danny Galvin, Spike Cordeiro, William Payne and George Segarini. Another dozen baseball players are yet to be enrolled. Play will start on March 1.--Tribune photo." Photograph has been cut(?) into two pieces with the left (A) and right (B) sides reattached via plastic tape. A white cropping registration border surrounds the figures which have been, in some instances, outlined and touched up for reproduction purposes.