http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Christy_Mathewson2.jpg/800px-Christy_Mathewson2.jpg
― 867-5309 (abdul) (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 10:40 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/b71470cb002e42c1_landing
― 867-5309 (abdul) (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 10:57 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.phawker.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/joe-dimaggio.jpg
― 867-5309 (abdul) (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 10:59 (eleven years ago) link
http://kermittheblog.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/barry_bonds.jpg
― 867-5309 (abdul) (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 11:03 (eleven years ago) link
My favorite baseball photo (this may be a little small):
http://www.scpauctions.com/Userfiles/Image/Stengel-crystal-ball.jpg
― clemenza, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 11:11 (eleven years ago) link
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
― clemenza, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 12:18 (eleven years ago) link
A.J. Foyt! There's a name from the past.
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 15:32 (eleven years ago) link
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
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 15:34 (eleven years ago) link
Haha yes -- fuck a piercing Bombat.
Though once I started using 32- and- 33-inch bats, it was TPX all the way.
― Andy K, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 15:40 (eleven years ago) link
this one rich kid had his own easton black magic : /
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 15:56 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, the christy pic definitely inspired the thread
― 867-5309 (abdul) (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/ggbain/09800/09869v.jpg
^
― 867-5309 (abdul) (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 20:36 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.joemcnally.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/ozzie_smith_mirrors.jpg
― http://tinyurl.com/vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
^^ That's one to right-click and "Open Image in New Window".
― http://tinyurl.com/vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 20:40 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Pussy.ogg (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 21:03 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 21:50 (eleven years ago) link
Pretty basic, but iconic:
http://jackierobinsonfacts.com/images/Jackie_Robinson.jpg
― clemenza, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 21:52 (eleven years ago) link
Not a portrait...but man, I love this photo:
http://www3.whig.com/whig/blogs/uponfurtherreview/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/BobGibson_68.jpg
― clemenza, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 21:59 (eleven years ago) link
Did Storm Thorgerson take the Ozzie Smith? WOW.
― Andy K, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 23:15 (eleven years ago) link
Not Thorgerson, obv.
― Andy K, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 23:22 (eleven years ago) link
how do I get mathewson's jacket?
― JIMMY MOD THE SACK MASTER (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 25 November 2010 06:14 (eleven years ago) link
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
― clemenza, Thursday, 25 November 2010 12:21 (eleven years ago) link
^emo
― JIMMY MOD THE SACK MASTER (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 25 November 2010 14:08 (eleven years ago) link
williams looked so great back then.
― 867-5309 (abdul) (roxymuzak), Thursday, 25 November 2010 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
http://photos.mycapture.com/STLT/731526/23161147E.jpg
― EDB, Thursday, 25 November 2010 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
https://phila8.securesites.com/ppp/images/autoph/2009Dom2.jpg
the ultimate other guy
― 867-5309 (abdul) (roxymuzak), Thursday, 25 November 2010 19:14 (eleven years ago) link
ian johnson reminds me of joe dimaggio sometimes
― O⎠o⎠O⎠o⎠O (roxymuzak), Friday, 26 November 2010 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
http://mlb.mlb.com/images/2008/02/09/wJQhul5t.jpg
― leTeReL (Leee), Friday, 26 November 2010 22:24 (eleven years ago) link
that is neither a portrait, nor great
― O⎠o⎠O⎠o⎠O (roxymuzak), Saturday, 27 November 2010 01:28 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/DzQ89.jpg
― Disgraced Homo Cop (Princess TamTam), Saturday, 27 November 2010 01:30 (eleven years ago) link
Potato, potato, roxy.
― leTeReL (Leee), Saturday, 27 November 2010 06:39 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.sealclubbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/sammy_sosa_hitbypitch.jpg
― van smack, Saturday, 27 November 2010 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
not a proper portrait, still:
http://product.images.prosportsmemorabilia.com/44-01/44-01180-F.jpg
― circa1916, Saturday, 27 November 2010 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
aaaw robin ventura got his blood on nolan ryan's face!
― JIMMY MOD THE SACK MASTER (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 27 November 2010 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
this thread es fantastique
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 27 November 2010 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
http://grab.by/7BBJ
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 27 November 2010 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
lol
http://images.chron.com/blogs/sportsupdate/archives/ryan_ventura.jpg
bloody ryan pic linked above is from a bo jackson-hit ball.
― circa1916, Saturday, 27 November 2010 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
I was going to find a Donny baseball mustache pic...kudos on the double wammy with Boggs
― van smack, Saturday, 27 November 2010 22:13 (eleven years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yCdkXPm18SQ/RezR1OztT9I/AAAAAAAAAAk/QXyxnHt6cnw/s320/tekulve.jpg
― van smack, Saturday, 27 November 2010 22:15 (eleven years ago) link
http://mdd2403.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/ted_williams_pilot.jpg
― tim lincecum in a giants snuggie (roxymuzak), Sunday, 28 November 2010 06:37 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/HYtTa.jpg
― Disgraced Homo Cop (Princess TamTam), Sunday, 28 November 2010 06:53 (eleven years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wFtDGrTjvGs/TNLOTxHLhpI/AAAAAAAABIg/ynAWdLy3oCM/s1600/27marichal_186115314.jpg
― leTeReL (Leee), Sunday, 28 November 2010 07:09 (eleven years ago) link
http://thesportshernia.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b84f69e2011570361948970b-400wi
There are leg kicks and there are leg kicks.
― earlnash, Sunday, 28 November 2010 08:08 (eleven years ago) link
http://shootthemoose.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/babe_ruth_02.jpg
― van smack, Sunday, 28 November 2010 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
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
― clemenza, Sunday, 28 November 2010 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.millerparkdrunk.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/gorman-thomas.jpg
― van smack, Sunday, 28 November 2010 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xoqYhFMIB-0/SJMiI_yXQaI/AAAAAAAAASc/4mgkPCfw_VE/s320/rod-beck.jpg
― van smack, Sunday, 28 November 2010 16:22 (eleven years ago) link
I call your Thomas, and raise you one Mad Hungarian.
http://www.hotstoveleague.org/images/AL%20HRABOSKY.jpg
― clemenza, Sunday, 28 November 2010 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
ok Ross Grimsley
http://www.survivinggrady.com/ross_grimsley.jpg
― van smack, Sunday, 28 November 2010 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C9ytPl1UAAAZQzk.jpg
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 17:30 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/1898_Cleveland_Spiders.jpg
the 1898 cleveland spiders
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 01:52 (five years ago) link
dudes
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 01:58 (five years ago) link
https://twitchy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/astros_flag.jpg
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 22 October 2017 12:54 (four years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
not really a portrait or a player, but i feel like it would make good statuary
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 17:04 (three years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DxyJYRKVsAAwfmS.jpg
― mookieproof, Friday, 25 January 2019 22:17 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
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 (two years ago) link
That is a beautiful story. That is life in one article.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 19:02 (two years ago) link
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 (two years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVAjFsAUYAQ2-bT?format=jpg&name=large
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 15:17 (two years ago) link
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 (two years ago) link
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 (two years ago) link
EKERSLY1.BMF pic.twitter.com/dKd8RfoH7W— Corel Gallery 1994 (@Clipart1994bot) November 20, 2020
― mookieproof, Friday, 20 November 2020 01:28 (one year ago) link
haha sweet!
― brimstead, Friday, 20 November 2020 03:19 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Evl27DSUcAA8L7t?format=jpg&name=large
― mookieproof, Thursday, 4 March 2021 16:41 (one year ago) link
man.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 4 March 2021 16:43 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FCriKJPWEAc0_vR?format=jpg&name=medium
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 05:09 (nine months ago) link
billy 'bad wheels' buckner and... who?
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 09:22 (nine months ago) link
eastern tennessee's own phil 'scrap iron' garner
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 10:37 (nine months ago) link
ahh of course!
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 11:09 (nine months ago) link
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 (nine months ago) link
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 (nine months ago) link
close enough
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EU7Sw_YVAAI88Gu.jpg
― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 November 2021 17:00 (eight months ago) link
I should know...Siouxsie Sioux? Doesn't really make sense.
― clemenza, Saturday, 20 November 2021 22:07 (eight months ago) link
i believe that's a madonna
― just staying (Karl Malone), Saturday, 20 November 2021 22:35 (eight months ago) link
indeed. photo by the late mick rock
― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 November 2021 23:17 (eight months ago) link
Yikes, how did I miss that...
― clemenza, Sunday, 21 November 2021 02:07 (eight months ago) link
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 (eight months ago) link
the more i know about ted williams, the more i'm like fuck ted williams
― Karl Malone, Friday, 17 December 2021 18:19 (eight months ago) link
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 (eight months ago) link
(Fidyrich/Big Bird cover)
^ this tbh
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 17 December 2021 23:49 (eight months ago) link
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 (eight months ago) link
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 (eight months ago) link
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 (eight months ago) link
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 (six months ago) link
How much would you give for one of those cardigans.
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 3 February 2022 22:00 (six months ago) link
when did the name "Rube" die out?
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 4 February 2022 05:47 (six months ago) link
intrigued by the evolutionary process of ears
andrew siciliano is certainly a throwback
― mookieproof, Friday, 4 February 2022 06:54 (six months ago) link
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 (six months ago) link
this thread is cool but don't sleep on this rolling old-tyme baseball photograph thread
― buzza, Friday, 4 February 2022 10:55 (six months ago) link
ah thanks!
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 4 February 2022 11:30 (six months ago) link
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 (two months ago) link
mushrooms
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Friday, 27 May 2022 06:18 (two months ago) link
from the pittsburgh press, 22 may 1982
https://i.imgur.com/k8oFYMG.jpg
alas, he did not win the batting title (although teammate bill madlock finished second to al oliver), but he did rank fifth in slugging and OPS
― mookieproof, Sunday, 29 May 2022 22:24 (two months ago) link