and to Lasorda's right, Red Schoendienst, still around at 94.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 14:29 (nine years ago)
That's Walter Alston!
― timellison, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 19:02 (nine years ago)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C9ytPl1UAAAZQzk.jpg
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 17:30 (nine years ago)
https://usatftw.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/hunter-pence.jpg?w=1000&h=600&crop=1
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 21:31 (nine years ago)
https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/18581805_1815788792071489_5524496500300713293_n.jpg?oh=8d8d450e0fb51cfd6c9e273d449b73ed&oe=59A7CE0D
― earlnash, Friday, 19 May 2017 03:06 (nine years ago)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/1898_Cleveland_Spiders.jpg
the 1898 cleveland spiders
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 01:52 (eight years ago)
dudes
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 01:58 (eight years ago)
https://twitchy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/astros_flag.jpg
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 22 October 2017 12:54 (eight years ago)
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
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 16:50 (seven years ago)
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!
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 17:01 (seven years ago)
not really a portrait or a player, but i feel like it would make good statuary
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 17:04 (seven years ago)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DxyJYRKVsAAwfmS.jpg
― mookieproof, Friday, 25 January 2019 22:17 (seven years ago)
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
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 June 2019 18:01 (seven years ago)
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.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 18:52 (six years ago)
That is a beautiful story. That is life in one article.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 19:02 (six years ago)
yes i read that this morning and lol'd at the crazy glue stuff and his wife's reaction
― na (NA), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 19:22 (six years ago)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVAjFsAUYAQ2-bT?format=jpg&name=large
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 15:17 (six years ago)
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
― mookieproof, Friday, 26 June 2020 20:55 (five years ago)
I must say this is my All Time Favorite card. https://t.co/PyCHXw52p3— andrew mccutchen (@TheCUTCH22) June 26, 2020
cutch is the best
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 26 June 2020 21:55 (five years ago)
EKERSLY1.BMF pic.twitter.com/dKd8RfoH7W— Corel Gallery 1994 (@Clipart1994bot) November 20, 2020
― mookieproof, Friday, 20 November 2020 01:28 (five years ago)
haha sweet!
― brimstead, Friday, 20 November 2020 03:19 (five years ago)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Evl27DSUcAA8L7t?format=jpg&name=large
― mookieproof, Thursday, 4 March 2021 16:41 (five years ago)
man.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 4 March 2021 16:43 (five years ago)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FCriKJPWEAc0_vR?format=jpg&name=medium
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 05:09 (four years ago)
billy 'bad wheels' buckner and... who?
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 09:22 (four years ago)
eastern tennessee's own phil 'scrap iron' garner
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 10:37 (four years ago)
ahh of course!
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 11:09 (four years ago)
i still love that photo of neikro and torre both reduced to bashful little boys by the sheer fabulousness of olivia newton-john
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 11:11 (four years ago)
the brows/eyes/moustache kinda make buckner look like a literal muppet!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 12:26 (four years ago)
close enough
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EU7Sw_YVAAI88Gu.jpg
― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 November 2021 17:00 (four years ago)
I should know...Siouxsie Sioux? Doesn't really make sense.
― clemenza, Saturday, 20 November 2021 22:07 (four years ago)
i believe that's a madonna
― just staying (Karl Malone), Saturday, 20 November 2021 22:35 (four years ago)
indeed. photo by the late mick rock
― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 November 2021 23:17 (four years ago)
Yikes, how did I miss that...
― clemenza, Sunday, 21 November 2021 02:07 (four years ago)
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
― Spottie, Friday, 17 December 2021 16:44 (four years ago)
the more i know about ted williams, the more i'm like fuck ted williams
― Karl Malone, Friday, 17 December 2021 18:19 (four years ago)
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
― clemenza, Friday, 17 December 2021 23:30 (four years ago)
(Fidyrich/Big Bird cover)
^ this tbh
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 17 December 2021 23:49 (four years ago)
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.)
― clemenza, Friday, 17 December 2021 23:58 (four years ago)
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.
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 18 December 2021 16:38 (four years ago)
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.
― clemenza, Saturday, 18 December 2021 18:11 (four years ago)
Rube Marquard
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Rube_Marquard_by_Bain%2C_1912.jpg
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 3 February 2022 21:56 (four years ago)
How much would you give for one of those cardigans.
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 3 February 2022 22:00 (four years ago)
when did the name "Rube" die out?
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 4 February 2022 05:47 (four years ago)
intrigued by the evolutionary process of ears
andrew siciliano is certainly a throwback
― mookieproof, Friday, 4 February 2022 06:54 (four years ago)
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
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 4 February 2022 10:09 (four years ago)
this thread is cool but don't sleep on this rolling old-tyme baseball photograph thread
― buzza, Friday, 4 February 2022 10:55 (four years ago)
ah thanks!
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 4 February 2022 11:30 (four years ago)
Congrats to Sean Doolittle on hitting 10 years of Major League service today! pic.twitter.com/ICKm6scJyj— Kyle Brostowitz (@KyleBrostowitz) May 26, 2022
― mookieproof, Friday, 27 May 2022 03:33 (four years ago)