great portraits of baseball players

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Christy_Mathewson2.jpg/800px-Christy_Mathewson2.jpg

http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/b71470cb002e42c1_landing

http://www.phawker.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/joe-dimaggio.jpg

http://kermittheblog.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/barry_bonds.jpg

My favorite baseball photo (this may be a little small):

http://www.scpauctions.com/Userfiles/Image/Stengel-crystal-ball.jpg

Actually, this would be my favorite baseball photo (I'm hoping it's not blocked):

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/si/2009/writers/joe_posnanski/04/14/fidrych.obit/Mark-Fidrych-SI.jpg

A.J. Foyt! There's a name from the past.

The Christy Mathewson photo is outta sight

Also lol at Bonds swinging the same aluminum Easton bat that all the kids used at my school

Haha yes -- fuck a piercing Bombat.

Though once I started using 32- and- 33-inch bats, it was TPX all the way.

this one rich kid had his own easton black magic : /

yeah, the christy pic definitely inspired the thread

I think people have commented on the resemblance between Mathewson and Seaver; James also once wrote something about a picture of Mathewson and Cobb shaking hands, how their personalities (Mathewson: self-assured, confident/Cobb: frightened, small) were perfectly reflected in their expressions.

http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/ggbain/09800/09869v.jpg

^

http://www.joemcnally.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/ozzie_smith_mirrors.jpg

^^ That's one to right-click and "Open Image in New Window".

http://i54.tinypic.com/jqkigz.jpg

http://www.life.com/image/ugc1065781/in-gallery/47141/babe-ruth-rare-and-unpublished

A never-before-published photo of Babe Ruth and two unidentified men, taken by Ralph Morse in the locker room at Yankee Stadium, June 13, 1948. "This picture works so much better in color than it would in black and white," Morse says. "Because with black and white, you might get a sense of how frail Ruth was, but you wouldn't really feel it, the way you do here. In black and white, you wouldn't see how gray his face looked, how the cancer had really destroyed him. To put it bluntly, Ruth wouldn't look as sick in black and white as he does in color. The man was dying, after all -- and it showed." Coming back into the locker room after addressing the crowd (so the story goes), Ruth was offered a beer by his old teammate, "Jumping Joe" Dugan, who asked the Babe how he was doing. Ruth took the beer, and looked Dugan in the eye. "Joe, I'm gone," he said -- and broke down in tears.

Roxymuzak: thanks, that's the one. I was wrong about them shaking hands...I think what James said was that even though Cobb was the older and presumably wiser and more self-assured player, it looks as if it's he who's in awe of Mathewson.

Pretty basic, but iconic:

http://jackierobinsonfacts.com/images/Jackie_Robinson.jpg

Not a portrait...but man, I love this photo:

http://www3.whig.com/whig/blogs/uponfurtherreview/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/BobGibson_68.jpg

Did Storm Thorgerson take the Ozzie Smith? WOW.

Not Thorgerson, obv.

how do I get mathewson's jacket?

You're too late--it's been cut up into a thousand Upper Deck inserts.

On DiMaggio's birthday, one of the other guy:

http://blog.detroitathletic.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/ted-williams.jpg

^emo

williams looked so great back then.

http://photos.mycapture.com/STLT/731526/23161147E.jpg

https://phila8.securesites.com/ppp/images/autoph/2009Dom2.jpg

the ultimate other guy

ian johnson reminds me of joe dimaggio sometimes

http://mlb.mlb.com/images/2008/02/09/wJQhul5t.jpg

that is neither a portrait, nor great

http://i.imgur.com/DzQ89.jpg

Potato, potato, roxy.

http://www.sealclubbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/sammy_sosa_hitbypitch.jpg

not a proper portrait, still:

http://product.images.prosportsmemorabilia.com/44-01/44-01180-F.jpg

aaaw robin ventura got his blood on nolan ryan's face!

this thread es fantastique

http://grab.by/7BBJ

aaaw robin ventura got his blood on nolan ryan's face!

lol

http://images.chron.com/blogs/sportsupdate/archives/ryan_ventura.jpg

bloody ryan pic linked above is from a bo jackson-hit ball.

I was going to find a Donny baseball mustache pic...kudos on the double wammy with Boggs

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yCdkXPm18SQ/RezR1OztT9I/AAAAAAAAAAk/QXyxnHt6cnw/s320/tekulve.jpg

http://mdd2403.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/ted_williams_pilot.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/HYtTa.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wFtDGrTjvGs/TNLOTxHLhpI/AAAAAAAABIg/ynAWdLy3oCM/s1600/27marichal_186115314.jpg

http://thesportshernia.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b84f69e2011570361948970b-400wi

There are leg kicks and there are leg kicks.

http://shootthemoose.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/babe_ruth_02.jpg

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

http://www.millerparkdrunk.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/gorman-thomas.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xoqYhFMIB-0/SJMiI_yXQaI/AAAAAAAAASc/4mgkPCfw_VE/s320/rod-beck.jpg

I call your Thomas, and raise you one Mad Hungarian.

http://www.hotstoveleague.org/images/AL%20HRABOSKY.jpg

ok Ross Grimsley

http://www.survivinggrady.com/ross_grimsley.jpg

http://www.colimdo.org/media/2631779/rico_carty.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/qn5DzQa.jpg

willie mcgee
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CwR_2OYW8AQh827.jpg

satchel
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C2D3UfZXgAAKnIB.jpg

Curt Flood at the canvas

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WyIYb-I_s8E/Utl058_mG_I/AAAAAAAAEdQ/d_7y4FAfEPQ/s1600/floodmlkcrop.JPG

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C4twVJaVYAEFK-i.jpg

manny sanguillen and cane

This team shot of the 1975 NL All Stars was really cool. Lots of cool players in that picture. Kinda neat to see a young Gary Carter in the front row. Look how big Greg Lusinski looks, he is a big beast next to Lou Brock and Bill Madlock.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/8/7026/6495659655_a2bea308e9_b.jpg

i did not remember how big jerry reuss was

and to Lasorda's right, Red Schoendienst, still around at 94.

That's Walter Alston!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C9ytPl1UAAAZQzk.jpg

https://usatftw.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/hunter-pence.jpg?w=1000&h=600&crop=1

https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/18581805_1815788792071489_5524496500300713293_n.jpg?oh=8d8d450e0fb51cfd6c9e273d449b73ed&oe=59A7CE0D

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/1898_Cleveland_Spiders.jpg

the 1898 cleveland spiders

dudes

https://twitchy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/astros_flag.jpg

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

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!

not really a portrait or a player, but i feel like it would make good statuary

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DxyJYRKVsAAwfmS.jpg

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

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.

That is a beautiful story. That is life in one article.

yes i read that this morning and lol'd at the crazy glue stuff and his wife's reaction

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVAjFsAUYAQ2-bT?format=jpg&name=large

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

I must say this is my All Time Favorite card. https://t.co/PyCHXw52p3

— andrew mccutchen (@TheCUTCH22) June 26, 2020

cutch is the best

EKERSLY1.BMF pic.twitter.com/dKd8RfoH7W

— Corel Gallery 1994 (@Clipart1994bot) November 20, 2020

haha sweet!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Evl27DSUcAA8L7t?format=jpg&name=large

man.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FCriKJPWEAc0_vR?format=jpg&name=medium

billy 'bad wheels' buckner and... who?

eastern tennessee's own phil 'scrap iron' garner

ahh of course!

i still love that photo of neikro and torre both reduced to bashful little boys by the sheer fabulousness of olivia newton-john

the brows/eyes/moustache kinda make buckner look like a literal muppet!

close enough

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EU7Sw_YVAAI88Gu.jpg

I should know...Siouxsie Sioux? Doesn't really make sense.

i believe that's a madonna

indeed. photo by the late mick rock

Yikes, how did I miss that...

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

the more i know about ted williams, the more i'm like fuck ted williams

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

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/muppet/images/9/99/Sportsillustrated1977.JPG/revision/latest?cb=20181030143543

(Fidyrich/Big Bird cover)

the more i know about ted williams, the more i'm like fuck ted williams

^ this tbh

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.)

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.

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.