'61 Joe Namath Beaver Falls PA baseball photo

Joe Namath high school baseball team photo

While Bear Bryant was courting Joe Namath to attend Alabama, the Chicago Cubs offered Namath a baseball contract.  A three-sport star at Beaver Falls (PA) High School, Namath was an accomplished -- if laid-back -- baseball player.

Old-timers still talk about his skills, as well as a classic American Legion match-ups with Wampum's Richie Allen.

In Namath's senior year, Beaver Falls won the 1961 Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League championship in a game played at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh.

This first-generation photograph was taken by the now-defunct Beaver Falls News-Tribune. The original photo was cropped tighter at the top and bottom and used as the team photo in the 1962 Beaver Falls High School yearbook, the year after Namath's graduation. 

Here is Namath at his best -- wearing sunglasses, legs and arms crossed.  Were he any more relaxed, he would be holding a glass of Johnnie Walker Red.

This beautiful photo is printed on Fujicolor Crystal Archive Paper. The picture is flawless and is much sharper than the scan.  Our web address appears only in the scan below, and not on the actual photo.

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