rolling old-tyme baseball photograph thread

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?