Grate Fishing Frame Color:Natural He hit 58 home runs

He hit 58 home runs in 1938

"This is our first time in New York

Colonel of the Rough Riders

November 17

This image was published with The Times article

Grate Fishing Frame Color:Natural He hit 58 home runsA 12 year old boy goes fishing with "uncanny skill" for coins and other treasures in the city's subway grating in 1959. His only tools: a small rock tied to a 12 foot piece of string and some lard (which is used to make the rock sticky). He then lowers the line and hauls up his catch. Sometimes a dime, sometimes a subway token, sometimes a ring of gold. Times photographer Allyn Baum captured the boy as he was surrounded by a large crowd in Times