great portraits of baseball players

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Christy_Mathewson2.jpg/800px-Christy_Mathewson2.jpg

http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/b71470cb002e42c1_landing

http://www.phawker.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/joe-dimaggio.jpg

http://kermittheblog.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/barry_bonds.jpg

My favorite baseball photo (this may be a little small):

http://www.scpauctions.com/Userfiles/Image/Stengel-crystal-ball.jpg

Actually, this would be my favorite baseball photo (I'm hoping it's not blocked):

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/si/2009/writers/joe_posnanski/04/14/fidrych.obit/Mark-Fidrych-SI.jpg

A.J. Foyt! There's a name from the past.

The Christy Mathewson photo is outta sight

Also lol at Bonds swinging the same aluminum Easton bat that all the kids used at my school

Haha yes -- fuck a piercing Bombat.

Though once I started using 32- and- 33-inch bats, it was TPX all the way.

this one rich kid had his own easton black magic : /

yeah, the christy pic definitely inspired the thread

I think people have commented on the resemblance between Mathewson and Seaver; James also once wrote something about a picture of Mathewson and Cobb shaking hands, how their personalities (Mathewson: self-assured, confident/Cobb: frightened, small) were perfectly reflected in their expressions.

http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/ggbain/09800/09869v.jpg

^

http://www.joemcnally.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/ozzie_smith_mirrors.jpg

^^ That's one to right-click and "Open Image in New Window".

http://i54.tinypic.com/jqkigz.jpg

http://www.life.com/image/ugc1065781/in-gallery/47141/babe-ruth-rare-and-unpublished

A never-before-published photo of Babe Ruth and two unidentified men, taken by Ralph Morse in the locker room at Yankee Stadium, June 13, 1948. "This picture works so much better in color than it would in black and white," Morse says. "Because with black and white, you might get a sense of how frail Ruth was, but you wouldn't really feel it, the way you do here. In black and white, you wouldn't see how gray his face looked, how the cancer had really destroyed him. To put it bluntly, Ruth wouldn't look as sick in black and white as he does in color. The man was dying, after all -- and it showed." Coming back into the locker room after addressing the crowd (so the story goes), Ruth was offered a beer by his old teammate, "Jumping Joe" Dugan, who asked the Babe how he was doing. Ruth took the beer, and looked Dugan in the eye. "Joe, I'm gone," he said -- and broke down in tears.

Roxymuzak: thanks, that's the one. I was wrong about them shaking hands...I think what James said was that even though Cobb was the older and presumably wiser and more self-assured player, it looks as if it's he who's in awe of Mathewson.

Pretty basic, but iconic:

http://jackierobinsonfacts.com/images/Jackie_Robinson.jpg

Not a portrait...but man, I love this photo:

http://www3.whig.com/whig/blogs/uponfurtherreview/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/BobGibson_68.jpg

Did Storm Thorgerson take the Ozzie Smith? WOW.

Not Thorgerson, obv.

how do I get mathewson's jacket?

You're too late--it's been cut up into a thousand Upper Deck inserts.

On DiMaggio's birthday, one of the other guy:

http://blog.detroitathletic.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/ted-williams.jpg

^emo

williams looked so great back then.

http://photos.mycapture.com/STLT/731526/23161147E.jpg

https://phila8.securesites.com/ppp/images/autoph/2009Dom2.jpg

the ultimate other guy

ian johnson reminds me of joe dimaggio sometimes

http://mlb.mlb.com/images/2008/02/09/wJQhul5t.jpg

that is neither a portrait, nor great

http://i.imgur.com/DzQ89.jpg

Potato, potato, roxy.

http://www.sealclubbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/sammy_sosa_hitbypitch.jpg

not a proper portrait, still:

http://product.images.prosportsmemorabilia.com/44-01/44-01180-F.jpg

aaaw robin ventura got his blood on nolan ryan's face!

this thread es fantastique

http://grab.by/7BBJ

aaaw robin ventura got his blood on nolan ryan's face!

lol

http://images.chron.com/blogs/sportsupdate/archives/ryan_ventura.jpg

bloody ryan pic linked above is from a bo jackson-hit ball.

I was going to find a Donny baseball mustache pic...kudos on the double wammy with Boggs

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yCdkXPm18SQ/RezR1OztT9I/AAAAAAAAAAk/QXyxnHt6cnw/s320/tekulve.jpg

http://mdd2403.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/ted_williams_pilot.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/HYtTa.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wFtDGrTjvGs/TNLOTxHLhpI/AAAAAAAABIg/ynAWdLy3oCM/s1600/27marichal_186115314.jpg

http://thesportshernia.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b84f69e2011570361948970b-400wi

There are leg kicks and there are leg kicks.

http://shootthemoose.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/babe_ruth_02.jpg

Love all the leg kicks. A couple more: Dontrelle Willis, who turns up all over the place on a "high leg kick" search, and Palmer, whose stride was probably longer than it was high.

http://detectovision.com/pics/dontrelle%20willis24.jpg

http://www.sportsmemorabilia.com/image.php?productid=180885

http://www.millerparkdrunk.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/gorman-thomas.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xoqYhFMIB-0/SJMiI_yXQaI/AAAAAAAAASc/4mgkPCfw_VE/s320/rod-beck.jpg

I call your Thomas, and raise you one Mad Hungarian.

http://www.hotstoveleague.org/images/AL%20HRABOSKY.jpg

ok Ross Grimsley

http://www.survivinggrady.com/ross_grimsley.jpg

http://7is.neswblogs.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/pete-Vukovitch-mustache-brewers-topps.jpg

http://cjciaramella.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/gamble1.jpg

Potato, potato:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T8xffaEz-OA/Sv89_bUsGoI/AAAAAAAAGfQ/syes1giYiaY/s400/doc+ellis1.jpg

Damn, someone beat me to Oscar Gamble...I know about Doc, but where do you get some of whatever Grimsley was flying on?

We've gone from eloquent portraiture of Mathewson, Paige, and DiMaggio to Bad '70s Hairapalooza...

I HATE Brandon Arroyo's leg kick.

I really get a kick looking at 70s baseball players. I love a diverse thread

Let's hit the '80s/'90s then:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-2gf151WQ-A/THUOLQW0j-I/AAAAAAAACDo/wfDrt0TPJfI/s320/jose_lind.JPG

I was just kidding--I worship '70s baseball. I still count it as baseball's greatest decade, from start to finish.

i imagine a bizarro universe where Donald Sutherland plays Kent Tekulve in a We Are Family dramatization

Speaking of which, another SI cover I always loved:

http://cache4.asset-cache.net/xc/81801763.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=77BFBA49EF8789215ABF3343C02EA548466ADC25164C7432DB420DDC0B0BEB293115CB9955BE58A5

They should revisit it at some point--have, say, Halladay and Hernandez recreate the exact same shot.

doesn't work

How so? One's not tall enough?

http://imgs.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2009/07/19/sp-rickey19_port_421968361.jpg

http://i.cdn.turner.com/si/multimedia/photo_gallery/1003/hot.tub.time.machine.sports/images/rickey-henderson-hot-tub-05718717.jpg

hrabosky shot is incredible

How so? One's not tall enough?

― clemenza, Sunday, November 28, 2010 4:42 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

No, I meant the link doesn't work.

ricky bein ricky

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/75/Leerichmond.jpg

http://squareamerica.com/playball/

http://cache2.asset-cache.net/xc/50455170.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=E41C9FE5C4AA0A147AD33C0359540723464D150AFC29DB9248EBBB238667E8E4B01E70F2B3269972

Lee Richmond pic is hilarious. That guy looks like he should be working at some vegan co-op, riding a fixie.

haha otm!

http://90feetofperfection.com/

http://mightyflynn.tumblr.com/

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lguolq6BUV1qzniimo1_500.jpg

http://90feetofperfection.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/ted-williams-minneapolis-millers-1938.jpg%3Fw%3D466%26h%3D584

"Ted Williams as a member of the Minneapolis Millers in 1938. The Millers were the Red Sox AA affiliate that Williams played for after he was bought from the San Diego Padres of the PCL after the 1937 season."

Blaaarrgfgkjdhfglzjhalkdjgfalksdjbvlakdjhvak;djhv;advbakdfnvjad;kvjnad;fvnadf;vhadf;bjva

look at that smug bastard

that picture is breathtaking

http://www.celebritysmackblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/ted-williams-cryonics.jpg

"I'd only seen him years later when he was worn down by life..."

the two different color tones on that young ted williams picture are weird... keep it all the same d00dz

Orange and teal...

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_li6sel99Sb1qzniimo1_500.jpg

http://community.post-gazette.com/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Components.UserFiles/00.00.01.11.72/parker_2C00_-dave.jpg

http://90feetofperfection.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/dick-allen.jpg?w=333&h=400

http://assets.espn.go.com/photo/2008/0422/pg2_g_rallen_400.jpg

http://www.boston.com/sports/touching_all_the_bases/bill%20lee_36.jpg

Bill Lee looks almost as much like a fixie vegan co-op dude as Lee Richmond.

http://90feetofperfection.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/joe-adcock-pimp.jpg

ladies love joe adcock

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Ed_Walsh_portrait_1911.jpg/800px-Ed_Walsh_portrait_1911.jpg

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljbhyzNJX31qzniimo1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJ6IHWSU3BX3X7X3Q&Expires=1302402577&Signature=o%2FEyOW2%2BCw7fD%2BvHE9I0vC3fdPo%3D

http://denverpost.slideshowpro.com/albums/001/496/album-104784/cache/97433871TP026_RANGERS.sjpg_950_2000_0_75_0_50_50.sjpg?1302396395

http://denverpost.slideshowpro.com/albums/001/496/album-104784/cache/97587367CG009_San_Francisco.sjpg_950_2000_0_75_0_50_50.sjpg?1302396395

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/photos/photos_galleries/historic_baseball_photos_by_leslie_jones/#/1

http://uptownflavor.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/mays.jpg

this fuckin guy

http://90feetofperfection.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/dave-parker-shirt.jpg

<3 <3 <3

that is so great

I haven't looked at this thread in a while.

One thing about the Dick Allen photo above, the one where he's smoking and juggling three baseballs: that was used for the cover of Sports Illustrated. I can't remember if it was '72, heading into his near-Triple Crown year, or '73, right after. Pretty sure such a cover shot would be verboten today; there's lots of things the player could be doing that wouldn't have been okay then, but it's the other way around when it comes to juggling baseballs...I mean, smoking.

gr8080sizemorecellphone.gif

speaking of cell phones

http://acidcow.com/pics/20100809/the_30_worst_baseball_cards_of_all_time_03.jpg

these are great too

http://acidcow.com/pics/20100809/the_30_worst_baseball_cards_of_all_time_12.jpg
http://acidcow.com/pics/20100809/the_30_worst_baseball_cards_of_all_time_27.jpg

those are portraits?!

sure

cmon don't turn this one into a semantics argument

I tried to post this way upthread and it didn't take. One of my favourite SI covers ever:

http://www.krakov.net/si/images/1979/0409_large.jpg

I wish they'd redo it with either Halladay and Lincecum, or Pujols and...Hallady and Lincecum it is.

is it pretty jarring to see all these big time, big-assed Pittsburgh players, they've been horrible ever since I was 7!

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkwc7sADgX1qzniimo1_400.jpg

http://www.shorpy.com/files/images/15833u_0.jpg

"Harvard Eddie" Grant, third baseman for the Cincinnati Reds, 1911. Eddie, a Harvard grad who practiced law after his retirement from baseball, was among the first to enlist in the Army after the United States entered World War I in 1917. An infantry captain, he was killed by an exploding shell in France, where he is buried.

A friend just e-mailed this to me--pretty great.

http://www.life.com/gallery/60701/never-seen-photos-willie-mays?xid=weeklytopten#index/0

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpl4sygdXZ1r14kguo1_400.jpg

the grandy man

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/tracerhand/BabeRuth-Dodger-1938.jpg

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?num=0&parent_id=137159&word=&snum=&s=¬word=&d=&c=&f=&k=0&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&sort=&imgs=20&pNum=

omg u guys

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4ajg5BzrP1qk9es5o1_500.jpg

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4ef9e6Vfz1qzniimo2_500.jpg

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mc0nkiit251r6i35po1_500.jpg

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mc1si3g1CW1r9hrxoo1_500.jpg

im a little late but yikes

http://24.media.tumblr.com/aaecf5d022a95d2044d18297cb4b4ddf/tumblr_mexpzcYCp41qdsqb1o1_500.jpg

honus wagner in the '40s

aw i love that!

it is kinda weird considering how much honus wagner already sounds like '40s penis slang

http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/rr251/mookieproof/maddog_zpsb5264152.jpg

this bill madlock poster hangs on the wall of my childhood bedroom; photo courtesy of my dad

<3

http://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/7e838db645965269738e293497f0db66/tumblr_mjbjyrdQrW1qzniimo1_500.jpg

le grand chat, circa 1979 (age 18)

<3

who is that near-nudie you posted a few posts up

that is ted williams

holy shit. i cant believe i didnt recognize him but its rare that i see him in tiny silk booty shorts, to be fair

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j251/mzing12/joe_zps51280c6e.jpg

here's a picture of joe dimaggio with my great grandfather. he was director of the Yankees broadcast when Joe was an announcer and eventually became close friends. hope it's relevant.

that is SO cool.

http://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/32c51c42739da28448826d75822dbbe0/tumblr_mmz2efCTOU1qb0ctno1_500.jpg

lol

How old was Giambi in that picture?

19

that's not steve zahn?

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/u/images/stevestone2.jpg

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/u/images/philgarner.png

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/u/images/stevemccatty.png

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/u/images/jerryremy.png

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/u/images/rickeyhenderson.png

rem dawg

87-year old Cy Young
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/66890_455665151169500_878851992_n.jpg

love it

http://sphotos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/1004830_418849861554839_92803135_n.jpg

Sports Illustrated had a good Reggie slide show a couple of weeks ago:

http://i.cdn.turner.com/si/multimedia/photo_gallery/1207/reggie-jackson-classic-photos/images/jackson-dimaggio.jpg

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/mlb/photos/1207/classic-photos-of-reggie-jackson/

http://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/1689b7613dd3da8c5a7ee8ea2ebf6c7e/tumblr_mrtlqwpPrb1qaihw2o1_500.jpg

http://sports.cbsimg.net/images//visual/whatshot/Ralph-Kiner-ladies-man-082413.jpg

Ralph Kiner, ladies' man

http://www.fangraphs.com/not/poem-to-a-photograph-of-dave-parker

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BWoDfKECYAEY5Ai.jpg

http://1-akamai.tapcdn.com/images/thumbs/taps/2013/08/stan-musial-vin-scully-1963-97f21dd9-sz527x700-animate.jpg

http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2013/10/22/new_york_public_library_presents_a_g_spalding_s_collection_of_early_baseball.html

Miller, Bartman & Mr Met too

http://flipflopflyin.com/flipflopflyball/arboldebeisbol.html

wow, thanks for linking that. i love it.

i was scanning it for the rally squirrel, this is what dating a phillies fan does to you

dearest rox, a team can't sink lower than ripping off a rally critter from Anaheim

hahaha i cant wait to say that to him tbh

top of bat out of frame, still great imo
http://www.achievement.org/achievers/may0/large/may0-048.jpg

http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/rr251/mookieproof/gapbat_zps53a8b2c2.jpg

my dad, circa 1940 (age 4)

only existing photo of him batting righty

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bg3SOm4CMAAMJW1.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lUPXsbfX9SQ/Ufcty-b32xI/AAAAAAAAF7M/mZyoyf55sO8/s1600/chap2.png

mookie i love that pic of your dad

<3

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bhw_kCNIEAEBeNi.jpg:large

http://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/0287af60371cb00216ac3512ccaab315/tumblr_n1m5kjBlVA1qdzsl5o1_500.jpg

http://cdn3.vox-cdn.com/assets/4378735/Screen_Shot_2014-04-29_at_9.25.03_AM.png http://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/assets/4378763/Screen_Shot_2014-04-15_at_3.33.36_PM.png

http://i.imgur.com/M0PLlVk.jpg

1915

v good

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bp7_JrxCcAA5kf4.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BwDssdGIIAAlyYy.jpg

http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/casey_stengel.jpg

http://www.corbisimages.com/images/Corbis-U96663ACME.jpg?size=67&uid=1f6d369b-36f6-4b48-95b8-ff675cc73272

^Ruth and Gehrig at Dexter Park in Brooklyn* for an exhibition game inOctober 1928

*Wikipedia sez that Dexter Park was over the borough line, in Woodhaven, Queens.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B7Ppyb7CcAAO1zh.jpg

clark griffith, washington senators, 1912

http://mlb.mlb.com/assets/images/1/4/8/111156148/cuts/legkick_cq7zqxf7_prstujei.jpg

murray state pitcher john lollar

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CB8QK3oWIAEYUk9.png

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CCkTg9DWEAEdnFC.jpg http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zOB6cnl5778/TdNdNm9gkeI/AAAAAAAACEA/HkKAUgDIXD4/s320/Ross+Stamp.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CE0m07mWAAA3aBh.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CJVSfsBVEAAtz9I.jpg

your 1977 NL all-stars

ellis valentine with the obvious lack of media training

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CMGNhmcVEAAw3v-.jpg

http://apps.startribune.com/blogs/user_images/randmid_1343147216_tkzubaz.jpg

former twins manager tom kelly

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CbB4hB5VAAAOiYu.jpg

pet bird ruffles

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ceuay3CXIAASNe0.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ce90qqKWIAAvItS.jpg

ty

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CjPvrjpVAAIwVjQ.jpg

http://www.colimdo.org/media/2631779/rico_carty.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/qn5DzQa.jpg

willie mcgee
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CwR_2OYW8AQh827.jpg

satchel
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C2D3UfZXgAAKnIB.jpg

Curt Flood at the canvas

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WyIYb-I_s8E/Utl058_mG_I/AAAAAAAAEdQ/d_7y4FAfEPQ/s1600/floodmlkcrop.JPG

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C4twVJaVYAEFK-i.jpg

manny sanguillen and cane

This team shot of the 1975 NL All Stars was really cool. Lots of cool players in that picture. Kinda neat to see a young Gary Carter in the front row. Look how big Greg Lusinski looks, he is a big beast next to Lou Brock and Bill Madlock.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/8/7026/6495659655_a2bea308e9_b.jpg

i did not remember how big jerry reuss was

and to Lasorda's right, Red Schoendienst, still around at 94.

That's Walter Alston!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C9ytPl1UAAAZQzk.jpg

https://usatftw.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/hunter-pence.jpg?w=1000&h=600&crop=1

https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/18581805_1815788792071489_5524496500300713293_n.jpg?oh=8d8d450e0fb51cfd6c9e273d449b73ed&oe=59A7CE0D

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/1898_Cleveland_Spiders.jpg

the 1898 cleveland spiders

dudes

https://twitchy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/astros_flag.jpg

https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/CIswXriLkCsfn8094_7FeeDIExA=/0x0:3703x2464/1200x0/filters:focal%280x0:3703x2464%29/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/12550273/1020432186.jpg.jpg

you're the best manager out there, imo!
that may be true but YOU'RE the best person in baseball, period, and it's not just me who says that!

not really a portrait or a player, but i feel like it would make good statuary

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DxyJYRKVsAAwfmS.jpg

On June 6, 1944, Lawrence P. Berra served his country as an 18-year-old gunner for the U.S. Navy, manning a rocket-boat during the Allied invasion of Normandy. #DDay75thAnniversary pic.twitter.com/MWuEhJIJjS

— Yogi Berra Museum (@Yogi_Museum) June 6, 2019

For lack of a better thread:

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/27425987/guy-ball-crotch-story-funniest-baseball-card-ever-made

I laughed way too hard while reading this.

That is a beautiful story. That is life in one article.

yes i read that this morning and lol'd at the crazy glue stuff and his wife's reaction

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVAjFsAUYAQ2-bT?format=jpg&name=large

Congrats to @TheCUTCH22 for securing what may be the coolest baseball card ever #Phillies @Topps pic.twitter.com/KToJ1sthwT

— Dick Allen (@DickAllen_15) June 26, 2020

I must say this is my All Time Favorite card. https://t.co/PyCHXw52p3

— andrew mccutchen (@TheCUTCH22) June 26, 2020

cutch is the best

EKERSLY1.BMF pic.twitter.com/dKd8RfoH7W

— Corel Gallery 1994 (@Clipart1994bot) November 20, 2020

haha sweet!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Evl27DSUcAA8L7t?format=jpg&name=large

man.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FCriKJPWEAc0_vR?format=jpg&name=medium

billy 'bad wheels' buckner and... who?

eastern tennessee's own phil 'scrap iron' garner

ahh of course!

i still love that photo of neikro and torre both reduced to bashful little boys by the sheer fabulousness of olivia newton-john

the brows/eyes/moustache kinda make buckner look like a literal muppet!

close enough

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EU7Sw_YVAAI88Gu.jpg

I should know...Siouxsie Sioux? Doesn't really make sense.

i believe that's a madonna

indeed. photo by the late mick rock

Yikes, how did I miss that...

twitter thread of some:

What’s the coolest picture ever of a baseball player? My nominations: pic.twitter.com/PQzndOaxxk

— Ben Porter (@Ben13Porter) December 16, 2021

the more i know about ted williams, the more i'm like fuck ted williams

Magazine cover--can't find the original photo--but this would be high on my own list:

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/muppet/images/9/99/Sportsillustrated1977.JPG/revision/latest?cb=20181030143543

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/muppet/images/9/99/Sportsillustrated1977.JPG/revision/latest?cb=20181030143543

(Fidyrich/Big Bird cover)

the more i know about ted williams, the more i'm like fuck ted williams

^ this tbh

Why do you guys say that? One thing I know about him is this.

https://www.mlb.com/news/ted-williams-hall-of-fame-speech-honored-negro-league-players

(I guess his speech is marginally undermined by his words about Yawkey, but he was hardly alone there.)

i guess it's just recency bias (as in, i recently learned about it), but he seems to have really gone out of his way to fuck gil hodges over by refusing to let roy campanella (one of the HOF voters that year for the veteran's committee, I think) vote via phone, even though campanella was very ill and died a couple months later. campanella would have been the 12th and clinching vote.

Been reading up--didn't know that. I agree with him that Hodges was a weak candidate, but that does seem petty (not to mention not letting someone in a wheelchair vote by phone). Must be some decades-long grudge.

Rube Marquard

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Rube_Marquard_by_Bain%2C_1912.jpg

How much would you give for one of those cardigans.

when did the name "Rube" die out?

intrigued by the evolutionary process of ears

andrew siciliano is certainly a throwback

rube was a nickname for a country bumpkin but marquard was a city boy, and people called him that because he reminded them of another lefty pitcher, rube waddell

this thread is cool but don't sleep on this
rolling old-tyme baseball photograph thread

ah thanks!

Congrats to Sean Doolittle on hitting 10 years of Major League service today! pic.twitter.com/ICKm6scJyj

— Kyle Brostowitz (@KyleBrostowitz) May 26, 2022

mushrooms

from the pittsburgh press, 22 may 1982

https://i.imgur.com/k8oFYMG.jpg

alas, he did not win the batting title (although teammate bill madlock finished second to al oliver), but he did rank fifth in slugging and OPS

https://www.sportsnet.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Rickey-Henderson-Blue-Jays.jpg

https://ftw.usatoday.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2019/09/gty-1171386230.jpg?resize=1024,724

tom seaver and gary gentry

https://i.imgur.com/5iZ1JGd.png

Are they replacing all those divots?!

they're checking out the carnage, i guess! it's from after the 1969 world series

https://i.imgur.com/x1xB5Fj.png

I love the harry dean stanton phase of matt carpenter's career

he's rugged

Needs cigarette.

damn it's been a minute since i really followed baseball and i never wouldve guessed that's matt carpenter! it's amazing what a beardless mustache does for a guy's look. take all those pesky ad patches off the uniform, run that thing through a sepia filter, and it would fit right in on a goudey gum card from the 1920s (ok the uniform fit is a bit off)

https://i.imgur.com/n718gF4.png

whoops, meant to do the sepia as well. might as well triple post this image and get it right, so that we can remember this great old timer from the days when winning the world series money meant not having to work at taco bell for the winter

https://i.imgur.com/nOZRK1v.png

kinda like this:

https://imgur.com/a/79i8ZlS

lol xpost - considered adding a cigar myself!

https://i.imgur.com/13k8eUo.jpg

oh there you go, much better!

now we're talkin, thank you photoshop wizards

Al Oliver, circa 1973 @Pirates pic.twitter.com/INLoLyWaZa

— Vintage Jerseys & Hats (@PolyesterUnis) March 18, 2023

More than 10,000 rare baseball images from the @ruckerarchive are now available online in the #SABR Research Collection: https://t.co/lKc9XlI8Y3 pic.twitter.com/BMDGGHWjM0

— SABR (@sabr) April 4, 2023

i don't think i'm doing this right

https://i.imgur.com/9bJzwhg.png

USC's Rod Dedeaux and a couple of fresh-faced punks (one of whom was cut from the team).

https://phildellio.tripod.com/dedeaux.jpg

Trivia lost to time: RJ*'s battery-mate on that team was Jack Del Rio**, both two-sporters.

*RJ: baseball & basketball
**JdR: baseball & football

Checked to see if there was a book on Rod Dedeaux, and there is, from 2013--very short, but may order a copy. He coached a lot of great players, starting with those two and Seaver.

https://i.postimg.cc/3r9q5cZq/IMG-4436.jpg

I kept forgetting to post this, truly iconic photo of Lincecum imo. This is his first postseason game in 2010 vs Halladay’s Phillies. Other photos from this game are (maybe?) more well known because of the Phillies fans whistling/jeering at him but this one is incredible for the composition: the windup, the incongruity, the lights. Everyone remembers this game for the two Cody Ross “ssory doc” homers but Ross himself was talking about this game on a podcast and said Lincecum was the forgotten man of this game - held a loaded Phillies lineup to 3 runs in 7 innings.

Anyway.

Not quite what this thread is, but if I could have seen any three pitchers ever, these'd be the three.

https://phildellio.tripod.com/pitchers.jpg

again not a portrait but what a great picture. manny in left.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/resizer/2DTF0wzLfkbxg3lL4KNsmxmxIJ0=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-bostonglobe/ATSRF6HK3PH3C5KPX34DDHFEOE.jpg

from this article: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/07/24/sports/fenway-park/

Speaking of Boston and left field:

https://i.postimg.cc/65kv740X/yazted.jpg

Awww.

Yaz? Yaz.
https://www-bostonherald-com.cdn.ampproject.org/i/s/www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/0918-NWS-BHR-L-carlmikeyaz002.jpg?w=978

I guess this is a famous photo? I'd never seen it till this morning, when it turned up on my FB wall.

https://www.welovedc.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/2010-08-10-carter-wipes-away-tear-500x333.jpg

Carter's wiping away a tear as Dawson is honoured by the (then still relatively new) Nationals franchise.

Brendon Barynov (bbflicks on Instagram) is an MLB photographer who mainly photographs the Giants and visiting teams. Some of his usual work:

https://i.postimg.cc/Sx2pF42F/IMG-7051.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/FHMXh63f/IMG-7054.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/L4Dqhty4/IMG-7055.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/c4Jv3vjR/IMG-7056.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/YqyhzpKJ/IMG-7057.jpg

JP one particularly cool cos his dad is this guy (who I don’t know but clemenza might).

Anyway recently he’s been using a disposable camera for shots and the aesthetic really works: something about combining the goofiness of players when they see a disposable camera, which many people associate with fun/informality, with the older/grainer look to the pictures making them look timeless. Padres Polaroid effect?!

https://i.postimg.cc/DZyScm03/IMG-7047.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/NMJ5CY29/IMG-7048.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/1zKg6D9K/IMG-7049.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/y8c31wtt/IMG-7052.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/KYbkR0yz/IMG-7050.jpg

Sorry, missed that--don't know much about the CFL (my friend's brother knows so much, he's been hired by the league for a panel charged with naming the 150 greatest players ever).

Ichiro shaking hands with George Sisler's daughter:

https://i.postimg.cc/ydmLbsds/ichiro.jpg

Not sure if I see Fernando in there!

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/USATSI_21190152.jpg

A little haircut goes a long way

https://i.postimg.cc/s2NxMSY3/eckson.jpg

We lived down the road from Denny McLain when I was a young child, there were always references to the Tigers around my house, so I was kind of aware of baseball, but this is the first picture (and play) I can remember:

https://www.baseballhistorycomesalive.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/1-rudi-4.jpg

I guess not really a portrait, but it's what immediately came to mind when I read the thread title. It's etched in my mind.

Here's a portrait to make up for it.

https://www.si.com/.image/t_share/MTY4MTI4MjI3NTU1Mjg4MzM3/1969-0622-reggie-jackson-001161220jpg.jpg

A shocking omission from the underwear pics upthread

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/kOsAAOSwekpiF-O6/s-l1600.jpg

McLain is fascinating. I tried to get a filmmaker friend interested in exploring a possible documentary on him 10 years ago, but we never pursued it. Still alive, 79.

Rudi--along with Fingers--is in the Reggie documentary on Prime, the three of them sitting around reminiscing.

McLain was the dark side to the beloved Mickey Lolich.

https://i.imgur.com/lNK2VAZ.png

this is a bad baseball portrait, sorry, but notably bad!

finally, pete rose made the hall!