rolling old-tyme baseball photograph thread

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7172/6750846167_9ee3f1f694_o.jpg

Sports Illustrated has a nice slide-show of old spring training photos up:

http://i.cdn.turner.com/si/multimedia/photo_gallery/0702/gallery.mlb.classic.spring.training/images/mays-dark-80962391.jpg

http://cnnsi.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/0702/gallery.mlb.classic.spring.training/content.1.html?sct=mlb_bf4_a4

https://p.twimg.com/Ar_S8C5CEAIn7Hm.jpg

Casey Stengel and a friend

ws friend

slider I hardly know er

Johnson, Grove, Young, and guy who went 34-5 one season:

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6064/6082209587_768af071ac.jpg

Lots more here: http://www.highheatstats.com/2012/10/amazing-baseball-photos/#more-7269.

(Playoffs? Yes, I know.)

not just photos... but who ever heard of the Indoor Base Ball craze?

http://baseballnuggets.blogspot.com/2012/10/indoor-baseball.html

Just started Summer of '68 by Tim Wendel. I wasn't aware of this Neil Leifer photo for a Sports Illustrated cover:

http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lt7wfvMnnA1qm9rypo1_1280.jpg

Weird, wild stuff:

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/B4sJ9rNCIAAcFoQ.jpg

https://mlblogsthesproutingnews.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/ernie-orsatti-cardinals1.jpg

https://sfgiantsphotos.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/grant-eddie-272-69_hs_pd.jpg

http://thumbs.imagekind.com/5307597_650/Lawrence-J-Larry-Benton_art.jpg?v=1401986712

http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large-5/2-william-c-baby-doll-jacobson-retro-images-archive.jpg

need IDs

1. ernie orsatti
2. eddie grant
3. larry benton
4. baby doll jacobson

rolling newly discovered color footage of old-tyme baseball

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/sports/ted-williams-film-last-game.html

just barely beat ya to it

i failed at searching : /

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

There's some Yankee fan page or something that keeps showing up on my FB wall with great photos.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BSoQlS-CUAAQgpE.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/61/f4/6c/61f46cbfcb8e6a28a7859da261fdf098.jpg

wow, when eras collide

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FPTs6HkVIAM52N5?format=jpg&name=medium

I'd never seen this till yesterday.

Ozzie Smith and Eddie Murray, high school teammates. Because that really happened. pic.twitter.com/G474z1OVjp

— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) August 31, 2021

I'm in one of those Facebook groups for the small town where I grew up. Someone posted this morning, identifying it as 1971 and soliciting names.

https://i.postimg.cc/3wxP8GHQ/baseball.jpg

97% sure that's me just to the coach's right. (Couldn't remember his name, but someone ID'd him as Mr. Morton in the comments.) I'm so proud of those pants--I hadn't even read Ball Four yet, but I was already bucking the system. Typically, I'm trying to sneak a glance at the lineup card, worried about where I'm batting or even if I'm starting.

Great photo. Looks like you guys were getting in some fall ball.

I think you're right--the weather still made sense then.

I think I posted in the portraits thread about how great Walter Iooss is (probably misspelled his name as I can’t find it in search) but was reminded of this by this thread & a SFG photography book I bought recently.

https://i.postimg.cc/ZqywVGpd/IMG-4819.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/5Nw2vyXc/IMG-4816.jpg
Yogi Berra & Whitey Ford

https://i.postimg.cc/gkJqM9P2/IMG-4817.jpg
DiMaggio (at old timers day)

https://i.postimg.cc/52y7FYtp/IMG-4820.jpg
Juan Marichal

https://i.postimg.cc/NfpCM7Q5/IMG-4821.jpg
Mays

https://i.postimg.cc/bJc3Mm9F/IMG-4822.jpg
Koufax

https://i.postimg.cc/vBr3d5P8/IMG-4825.jpg

I follow former SI photographer Walter Iooss on IG (you should too) and he posted this pic he took of Willie Mays the other day on Mays’s 90th bday. Pull this picture out every time someone says “they didn’t have athletes then like we have now.” pic.twitter.com/y6buSb1o54

— Harry Arnett (@harryarnett) May 7, 2021

Some background for some of these photos here

that first one is Dodger Stadium is just sensational. and the Piazza graphic! so 90s.

I think the three trees on the left are these ones

Fun Fact: The three palm trees in the left field bullpen are nicknamed, "The Three Sisters". They're so iconic to the stadium and to the team, the Dodgers actually incorporated them as part of their sock design. 🌴🌴🌴 pic.twitter.com/SjFysBE83g

— All Sports History (@AllSportHistory) April 6, 2020

He turned 80 last year, still alive. His site:

https://www.walteriooss.com/

Backatcha, Dick Allen:

https://i.postimg.cc/Vvt8S7QL/walter.jpg

Dave Parker, 1973 Charleston Charlies. @Pirates pic.twitter.com/nbq4vRmH0H

— Vintage Jerseys & Hats (@PolyesterUnis) January 27, 2024

First Jays spring training, 1977. Some weird kind of calisthenics drill, I think.

https://i.postimg.cc/XvMxCT5r/roy.jpg

Is that not just sliding practice?

Joking!

Sorry!

I often assume everyone's on my wavelength. In my local Facebook group yesterday, someone linked to a big table of census-derived data for our town. In the comments I said "You know, a census taker once tried to test me...the rest of the story isn't important." The poster responded "Funny, but not"--I couldn't tell if she got the reference or not.

Cosell at Exhibition Stadium:

https://i.postimg.cc/Sx7NR6f2/cosell.jpg

I like this one: Ted Williams at spring training, 1981, invited by then-Jays coach Bobby Doerr. (I get some of these from a FB page called Cooperstown in Canada that shows up on my feed.)

https://i.postimg.cc/4N3yMWG1/ted.jpg

"Just get the bat out front, John, and launch that fucking thing into space."

20-year-old prospect Cito Gaston.

https://i.postimg.cc/GptvRyc4/cito.jpg

The Alous, 1966. (SI's Neil Leifer.)

https://i.postimg.cc/XYJPSPHW/alous.jpg

Frank Robinson, 1966--it was a very good year.

https://i.postimg.cc/wTWTXFdF/frank.jpg

Weirdest photo that turned up on my FB wall this morning: the two Joneses, 1996:

https://i.postimg.cc/N0G3Nxg3/jones.jpg

Someone else commented on the thing that jumped out at me right away: looks like a photo from the '50s (the other person thought the '20s--the colour rules that out for me). And was Chipper Jones always that stocky? He looks like Harmon Killebrew there.

Maybe the M for Milwaukee on the hat is adding to the effect?

I miss a lot--see discussion of Shohei Ohtani New Yorker cover--so I didn't notice that...You might be right, though, that the M (almost subliminally) has something to do with it. It's their bulldog-like builds, which I associate with the '50s, that seemed off to me.

pretty sure that M is for macon, erstwhile atlanta class a affiliate

that photo is clearly (to me) show on medium format film too, which adds to the effect. old tymey portraits would have been shot on large format film. neither look like 35mm

Oh would wearing the M for Macon have been a thing they would have done? Agree they look unusually built, perhaps it's the photo angle slightly from below. Timeless photo from the ankles up.

I'm sure all of that figures in, but this is how I remember Chipper Jones:

https://i.postimg.cc/W3vg3LJJ/chipper.jpg

Did he lose weight as he got older? Bulking up seemed to be the usual thing during the PED era.

Looks like baby fat, not unusual to see guys tone up to keep pace in the majors surely

the macon braves are no more, having moved to rome, georgia in 2003 . . . where some desperate writers refer to them as the R-Braves.

the M-Braves still exist tho, as a double-a team in pearl (just outside of jackson) mississippi. naturally they had to add a fucking tomahawk to their M

https://mbraves.milbstore.com/cdn/shop/files/5950road_450x.png

This is their last year in MS; moving to Columbus GA next year. The Jackson area is not having a good 2020s.

huh. thanks!

columbus, ga has had a bunch of teams over the last 150 years; the last one left for bowling green, ky in 2009

i assume they've built a new stadium and will be naming themselves the FORT BENNING MURDERERS or something?