Baseball Dodgers new, 1958.

• Main Author: Rustan [Photographer]
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: University of Southern California Digital Library (USC.DL) 2013
• Subjects: Myers; Rodriguez; eskimo*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.25549/examiner-m15795; https://digitallibrary.usc.edu/asset-management/2A3BF1O08U4DP

4 images. Baseball Dodgers new, 17 June 1958. Fresco Thompson; Kenny Myers; Conrad Munatones; Ernest Rodriguez. "Sports". (Sleeve reads: SP 12,371).; Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Rustan. Date: 1958-06-17. Assignment: New Dodgers. 41/42: Left to right (rear): Fresco Thompson and Kenny Myers; Front: Conrad Munatones and Ernest Rodriguez. 49/50: Ernest Rodriguez (left) and Conrad Leonard Munatones catching".; Supplementary material reads: " From Los Angeles Dodgers...For immediate release...Fresco Thompson, Vice President of the Los Angeles Dodgers, and Director of Scouting Al Campis, announce the signing of three more players for immediate duty in the Dodgers' farm system. This brings to five new men who have been added to Dodger farm club rosters within the last week. The latest signers are: Conrad Leonard Munatones, catcher -- outfielder -- infielder of the University of California at Los Angeles; Ernest Richard Rodriguez, outfielder, also of U.C.L.A.; Ron Cutter, infielder, of Wilmington, Ohio College. Munatones and Rodriguez were signed by Scout Kenny Myers. Cutter was brought into the Dodger fold by Cliff Alexander. Both Munatones and Rodriguez were signed to Victoria (Texas) Contracts and will be assigned to farm clubs shortly. Cutter, signed to a Reno, Nevada contract, will report to the Thomasville, Georgia Club of the Georgia -- Florida League. Munatones, who lives at 2959 East Third Street, Los Angeles, was born of Mexican parents on November 6, 1936. He was a four -- sport star (basketball, baseball, track and tennis) at Roosevelt High where he also was a student body President. He was starred for UCLA over the last three seasons. He was selected as a C.I.B.A. All -- Star outfielder in 1957 and captained the team in 1958 when he was given honorable mention among the top infielders of the C.I.B.A. He was named as an All -- City pitcher in high school, starred in the Anaheim tournament and has also played for the Edmonton Eskimos, 1957 champions in the Western Canadian Summer League. During the 1954 tournament at Anaheim, he was selected as a top pitcher, but also received a special trophy for hitting a 405 -- foot home run, the first ever hit out of La Palma Park. Munatones, who wears glasses, bats and throws right -- handed. The Dodgers look upon him as a bid league catching prospect. He will be graduated from UCLA in February, 1959 but had completed his bas