great portraits of baseball players

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

― clemenza, Sunday, 28 November 2010 16:19 (fifteen years ago)

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

― van smack, Sunday, 28 November 2010 16:20 (fifteen years ago)

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

― van smack, Sunday, 28 November 2010 16:22 (fifteen years ago)

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

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

― clemenza, Sunday, 28 November 2010 16:42 (fifteen years ago)

ok Ross Grimsley

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

― van smack, Sunday, 28 November 2010 18:16 (fifteen years ago)

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

― van smack, Sunday, 28 November 2010 18:20 (fifteen years ago)

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

― leTeReL (Leee), Sunday, 28 November 2010 18:30 (fifteen years ago)

Potato, potato:

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

― leTeReL (Leee), Sunday, 28 November 2010 18:31 (fifteen years ago)

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

― clemenza, Sunday, 28 November 2010 18:35 (fifteen years ago)

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

― clemenza, Sunday, 28 November 2010 18:39 (fifteen years ago)

I HATE Brandon Arroyo's leg kick.

― leTeReL (Leee), Sunday, 28 November 2010 18:40 (fifteen years ago)

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

― van smack, Sunday, 28 November 2010 18:47 (fifteen years ago)

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

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

― leTeReL (Leee), Sunday, 28 November 2010 18:55 (fifteen years ago)

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

― clemenza, Sunday, 28 November 2010 19:12 (fifteen years ago)

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

― JIMMY MOD THE SACK MASTER (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 28 November 2010 21:13 (fifteen years ago)

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.

― clemenza, Sunday, 28 November 2010 21:24 (fifteen years ago)

doesn't work

― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipr-wS5iBv0 (Princess TamTam), Sunday, 28 November 2010 21:27 (fifteen years ago)

How so? One's not tall enough?

― clemenza, Sunday, 28 November 2010 21:42 (fifteen years ago)

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

― http://tinyurl.com/vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv (Pleasant Plains), Sunday, 28 November 2010 21:46 (fifteen years ago)

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

― http://tinyurl.com/vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv (Pleasant Plains), Sunday, 28 November 2010 21:47 (fifteen years ago)

hrabosky shot is incredible

― tim lincecum in a giants snuggie (roxymuzak), Monday, 29 November 2010 04:22 (fifteen years ago)

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.

― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipr-wS5iBv0 (Princess TamTam), Monday, 29 November 2010 04:43 (fifteen years ago)

ricky bein ricky

― ice cr?m, Monday, 29 November 2010 05:21 (fifteen years ago)

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

― tim lincecum in a giants snuggie (roxymuzak), Sunday, 12 December 2010 06:39 (fifteen years ago)

http://squareamerica.com/playball/

― mookieproof, Sunday, 12 December 2010 07:18 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

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

― dark link (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 04:42 (fifteen years ago)

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

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 13:30 (fifteen years ago)

haha otm!

― dark link (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 15:08 (fifteen years ago)

http://90feetofperfection.com/

http://mightyflynn.tumblr.com/

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 17:10 (fifteen years ago)

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

― mookieproof, Monday, 21 February 2011 01:02 (fifteen years ago)

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."

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― Elegant Bitch (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 21 February 2011 01:19 (fifteen years ago)

look at that smug bastard

― mookieproof, Monday, 21 February 2011 01:31 (fifteen years ago)

that picture is breathtaking

― Elegant Bitch (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 21 February 2011 01:47 (fifteen years ago)

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..."

― Elegant Bitch (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 21 February 2011 01:48 (fifteen years ago)

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

― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 10:48 (fifteen years ago)

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I collect those postcards--I'm right up to date as of the 2023 group. I look forward to purchasing my Notably Bad Whitey card sometime soon. (You know who else was a pretend architect? George Costanza.)

― clemenza, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 17:32 (two years ago)

two months pass...

Saw this on the official mlb account and it’s a great shot IMO; the bubble; the swing of the necklace; and the right arm readying the throw.
https://i.postimg.cc/1zzKRgjn/IMG-2993.jpg

― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Wednesday, 10 July 2024 12:49 (one year ago)

four months pass...

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

― z_tbd, Sunday, 24 November 2024 23:37 (one year ago)

three months pass...

I don’t know where else to share this great photo of Sparky Anderson. He looks like he’s conjuring up a spell or something

https://media.gettyimages.com/id/452540735/photo/detroit-mi-manager-sparky-anderson-of-the-detroit-tigers-smokes-on-his-pipe-prior-to-the-start.jpg

― brimstead, Monday, 24 February 2025 20:08 (one year ago)

well shit, nevermind https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/manager-sparky-anderson

― brimstead, Monday, 24 February 2025 20:08 (one year ago)

23 pages of sparky Anderson pics… not how I imagined i would spend my night, but here I am

― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 25 February 2025 05:32 (one year ago)

59yo at the time

https://i.imgur.com/zcHzFiP.jpeg

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 25 February 2025 06:05 (one year ago)

that’s the one, thanks mookie

― brimstead, Tuesday, 25 February 2025 14:44 (one year ago)

i think as a young baseball fan i was always amazed at how old Sparky looked, though maybe not as amazed as i was about Phil Niekro still pitching for the Braves when he was by all appearances in his late '70s.

― omar little, Tuesday, 25 February 2025 19:58 (one year ago)

70s!

― omar little, Tuesday, 25 February 2025 19:59 (one year ago)

ten months pass...

i’m not sure how this escaped my attention until now, but the first known photo of someone - anyone, baseball or not - giving anyone the finger is this one of old hoss radbourn, in this 1886 boston beaneaters team photo

https://i.ibb.co/FkY3ypSC/Screenshot-2025-12-26-at-7-29-18-PM.png

― z_tbd, Saturday, 27 December 2025 01:33 (five months ago)

idk this feels like a pixels situation

― mookieproof, Sunday, 28 December 2025 04:13 (five months ago)

i do not know what a pixels situation is! you mean like a doctored photo?

the sad truth, i first saw this picture because i was seeing whose birthday it is today (checking facebook) and the photo was served to me on the feed because it knows i always pause over baseball stuff. but i did visit wikipedia, which said

Radbourn is also known for being the first person photographed gesturing the middle finger. In 1886, an image was captured of him "flipping off" a member of the New York Giants in a team photo.[15]

― z_tbd, Sunday, 28 December 2025 17:13 (five months ago)

i don’t get how people used to be able to do athletics while wearing sweaters

― budo jeru, Sunday, 28 December 2025 17:16 (five months ago)

i figure it was a combo of playing without gloves and drinking gallons of whisky

― z_tbd, Sunday, 28 December 2025 17:30 (five months ago)

xp I feel this way every time I see baseball players wearing leather belts

― colonic interrogation (gyac), Sunday, 28 December 2025 17:45 (five months ago)

it’s crazy that they used to play without gloves, even crazier when you consider that the ball used to be made of pure steel and heated to 400 degrees before gameplay

― budo jeru, Sunday, 28 December 2025 19:18 (five months ago)

not to mention the then-common habit of chewing on lead as a way to treat stomach conditions

― z_tbd, Sunday, 28 December 2025 19:54 (five months ago)

no longer common, thank god

― z_tbd, Sunday, 28 December 2025 19:54 (five months ago)

https://i.postimg.cc/9QZNmRxr/suarez.jpg

Eugenio Suárez #28 of the Seattle Mariners blows a bubble during batting practice prior to game five of the American League Division Series against the Detroit Tigers at T-Mobile Park on October 10, 2025 in Seattle, Washington. (Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images)

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 5 January 2026 00:42 (five months ago)

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