great portraits of baseball players

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this fuckin guy

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

<3 <3 <3

mookieproof, Monday, 25 April 2011 02:16 (fifteen years ago)

that is so great

roxymuzak, Monday, 25 April 2011 02:31 (fifteen years ago)

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.

clemenza, Monday, 25 April 2011 03:45 (fifteen years ago)

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sanskrit, Monday, 25 April 2011 13:51 (fifteen years ago)

speaking of cell phones

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

frogbs, Monday, 25 April 2011 14:50 (fifteen years ago)

those are portraits?!

got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 25 April 2011 14:56 (fifteen years ago)

sure

roxymuzak, Monday, 25 April 2011 14:58 (fifteen years ago)

cmon don't turn this one into a semantics argument

frogbs, Monday, 25 April 2011 15:41 (fifteen years ago)

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.

clemenza, Monday, 25 April 2011 16:49 (fifteen years ago)

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

frogbs, Monday, 25 April 2011 17:18 (fifteen years ago)

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

mookieproof, Monday, 9 May 2011 03:49 (fifteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

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.

mookieproof, Monday, 30 May 2011 23:30 (fifteen years ago)

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

clemenza, Friday, 10 June 2011 18:58 (fourteen years ago)

one month passes...

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

the grandy man

mookieproof, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 21:40 (fourteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

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

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 11:06 (fourteen years ago)

eight months pass...

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

Grimy Little Pimp (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 19 May 2012 21:07 (fourteen years ago)

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

mookieproof, Sunday, 20 May 2012 02:10 (fourteen years ago)

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

mookieproof, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:23 (fourteen years ago)

four months pass...

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

mookieproof, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:25 (thirteen years ago)

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

mookieproof, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:26 (thirteen years ago)

two months pass...

im a little late but yikes

flag this post and die (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 01:29 (thirteen years ago)

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

honus wagner in the '40s

mookieproof, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 19:56 (thirteen years ago)

aw i love that!

flag this post and die (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 20:26 (thirteen years ago)

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

kristof-profiting-from-a-childs-illiteracy.html (schlump), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 20:38 (thirteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

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

mookieproof, Saturday, 12 January 2013 03:36 (thirteen years ago)

<3

flag this post and die (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 17:38 (thirteen years ago)

one month passes...

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

le grand chat, circa 1979 (age 18)

mookieproof, Saturday, 9 March 2013 01:32 (thirteen years ago)

<3

purp (roxymuzak), Sunday, 10 March 2013 07:47 (thirteen years ago)

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

purp (roxymuzak), Sunday, 10 March 2013 07:48 (thirteen years ago)

that is ted williams

mookieproof, Sunday, 10 March 2013 07:50 (thirteen years ago)

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

purp (roxymuzak), Sunday, 10 March 2013 16:38 (thirteen years ago)

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.

Spectrum, Sunday, 10 March 2013 17:11 (thirteen years ago)

that is SO cool.

purp (roxymuzak), Sunday, 10 March 2013 17:11 (thirteen years ago)

two months pass...

How old was Giambi in that picture?

earlnash, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 04:42 (thirteen years ago)

19

mookieproof, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 04:46 (thirteen years ago)

that's not steve zahn?

shit, cat shit, cat shit, cat shit, cat shit, cat shit, cat shit, cat (zachlyon), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 04:54 (thirteen years ago)

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

christmas candy bar (al leong), Thursday, 23 May 2013 21:12 (thirteen years ago)

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

christmas candy bar (al leong), Thursday, 23 May 2013 21:12 (thirteen years ago)

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

christmas candy bar (al leong), Thursday, 23 May 2013 21:13 (thirteen years ago)

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

christmas candy bar (al leong), Thursday, 23 May 2013 21:14 (thirteen years ago)

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

christmas candy bar (al leong), Thursday, 23 May 2013 21:14 (thirteen years ago)

rem dawg

mookieproof, Thursday, 23 May 2013 21:31 (thirteen years ago)

one month passes...

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

Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 26 June 2013 04:36 (twelve years ago)

one month passes...

love it

1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Sunday, 11 August 2013 03:05 (twelve years ago)

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

1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Sunday, 11 August 2013 03:05 (twelve years ago)

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/

clemenza, Sunday, 11 August 2013 13:35 (twelve years ago)


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