http://shootthemoose.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/babe_ruth_02.jpg
― van smack, Sunday, 28 November 2010 16:10 (fifteen years ago)
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)
― 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)
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)
Orange and teal...
― Mark C, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 11:36 (fifteen years ago)
http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_li6sel99Sb1qzniimo1_500.jpg
― mookieproof, Thursday, 24 March 2011 19:55 (fifteen years ago)
http://community.post-gazette.com/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Components.UserFiles/00.00.01.11.72/parker_2C00_-dave.jpg
― omar little, Thursday, 24 March 2011 20:26 (fifteen years ago)
http://90feetofperfection.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/dick-allen.jpg?w=333&h=400
― omar little, Thursday, 24 March 2011 20:27 (fifteen years ago)
http://assets.espn.go.com/photo/2008/0422/pg2_g_rallen_400.jpg
― omar little, Thursday, 24 March 2011 20:28 (fifteen years ago)
http://www.boston.com/sports/touching_all_the_bases/bill%20lee_36.jpg
― Get me two meatball sandwiches Utah, TWO! (chrisv2010), Thursday, 24 March 2011 20:32 (fifteen years ago)
Bill Lee looks almost as much like a fixie vegan co-op dude as Lee Richmond.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 24 March 2011 20:44 (fifteen years ago)
http://90feetofperfection.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/joe-adcock-pimp.jpg
ladies love joe adcock
― mookieproof, Sunday, 3 April 2011 00:49 (fifteen years ago)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Ed_Walsh_portrait_1911.jpg/800px-Ed_Walsh_portrait_1911.jpg
― ☠ (roxymuzak), Monday, 4 April 2011 15:53 (fifteen years ago)
http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljbhyzNJX31qzniimo1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJ6IHWSU3BX3X7X3Q&Expires=1302402577&Signature=o%2FEyOW2%2BCw7fD%2BvHE9I0vC3fdPo%3D
― mookieproof, Saturday, 9 April 2011 02:36 (fifteen years ago)
http://denverpost.slideshowpro.com/albums/001/496/album-104784/cache/97433871TP026_RANGERS.sjpg_950_2000_0_75_0_50_50.sjpg?1302396395
― ☠ (roxymuzak), Sunday, 10 April 2011 00:51 (fifteen years ago)
http://denverpost.slideshowpro.com/albums/001/496/album-104784/cache/97587367CG009_San_Francisco.sjpg_950_2000_0_75_0_50_50.sjpg?1302396395
― ☠ (roxymuzak), Sunday, 10 April 2011 00:54 (fifteen years ago)
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/photos/photos_galleries/historic_baseball_photos_by_leslie_jones/#/1
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 22:54 (fifteen years ago)
http://uptownflavor.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/mays.jpg
― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Thursday, 14 April 2011 00:31 (fifteen years 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
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)