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 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/b71470cb002e42c1_landing
― 867-5309 (abdul) (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 10:57 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
http://kermittheblog.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/barry_bonds.jpg
― 867-5309 (abdul) (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 11:03 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
A.J. Foyt! There's a name from the past.
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 15:32 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
this one rich kid had his own easton black magic : /
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, the christy pic definitely inspired the thread
― 867-5309 (abdul) (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 20:26 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/ggbain/09800/09869v.jpg
^
― 867-5309 (abdul) (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 20:36 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
Pretty basic, but iconic:
http://jackierobinsonfacts.com/images/Jackie_Robinson.jpg
― clemenza, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 21:52 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
Did Storm Thorgerson take the Ozzie Smith? WOW.
― Andy K, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 23:15 (twelve years ago) link
Not Thorgerson, obv.
― Andy K, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 23:22 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
^emo
― JIMMY MOD THE SACK MASTER (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 25 November 2010 14:08 (twelve years ago) link
williams looked so great back then.
― 867-5309 (abdul) (roxymuzak), Thursday, 25 November 2010 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
http://photos.mycapture.com/STLT/731526/23161147E.jpg
― EDB, Thursday, 25 November 2010 19:13 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
ian johnson reminds me of joe dimaggio sometimes
― O⎠o⎠O⎠o⎠O (roxymuzak), Friday, 26 November 2010 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
http://mlb.mlb.com/images/2008/02/09/wJQhul5t.jpg
― leTeReL (Leee), Friday, 26 November 2010 22:24 (twelve years ago) link
that is neither a portrait, nor great
― O⎠o⎠O⎠o⎠O (roxymuzak), Saturday, 27 November 2010 01:28 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/DzQ89.jpg
― Disgraced Homo Cop (Princess TamTam), Saturday, 27 November 2010 01:30 (twelve years ago) link
Potato, potato, roxy.
― leTeReL (Leee), Saturday, 27 November 2010 06:39 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.sealclubbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/sammy_sosa_hitbypitch.jpg
― van smack, Saturday, 27 November 2010 20:17 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
this thread es fantastique
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 27 November 2010 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
http://grab.by/7BBJ
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 27 November 2010 20:46 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yCdkXPm18SQ/RezR1OztT9I/AAAAAAAAAAk/QXyxnHt6cnw/s320/tekulve.jpg
― van smack, Saturday, 27 November 2010 22:15 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/HYtTa.jpg
― Disgraced Homo Cop (Princess TamTam), Sunday, 28 November 2010 06:53 (twelve years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wFtDGrTjvGs/TNLOTxHLhpI/AAAAAAAABIg/ynAWdLy3oCM/s1600/27marichal_186115314.jpg
― leTeReL (Leee), Sunday, 28 November 2010 07:09 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
http://shootthemoose.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/babe_ruth_02.jpg
― van smack, Sunday, 28 November 2010 16:10 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.millerparkdrunk.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/gorman-thomas.jpg
― van smack, Sunday, 28 November 2010 16:20 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
ok Ross Grimsley
http://www.survivinggrady.com/ross_grimsley.jpg
― van smack, Sunday, 28 November 2010 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
EKERSLY1.BMF pic.twitter.com/dKd8RfoH7W— Corel Gallery 1994 (@Clipart1994bot) November 20, 2020
― mookieproof, Friday, 20 November 2020 01:28 (two years ago) link
haha sweet!
― brimstead, Friday, 20 November 2020 03:19 (two years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Evl27DSUcAA8L7t?format=jpg&name=large
― mookieproof, Thursday, 4 March 2021 16:41 (two years ago) link
man.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 4 March 2021 16:43 (two years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FCriKJPWEAc0_vR?format=jpg&name=medium
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 05:09 (one year ago) link
billy 'bad wheels' buckner and... who?
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 09:22 (one year ago) link
eastern tennessee's own phil 'scrap iron' garner
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 10:37 (one year ago) link
ahh of course!
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 11:09 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year ago) link
close enough
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EU7Sw_YVAAI88Gu.jpg
― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 November 2021 17:00 (one year ago) link
I should know...Siouxsie Sioux? Doesn't really make sense.
― clemenza, Saturday, 20 November 2021 22:07 (one year ago) link
i believe that's a madonna
― just staying (Karl Malone), Saturday, 20 November 2021 22:35 (one year ago) link
indeed. photo by the late mick rock
― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 November 2021 23:17 (one year ago) link
Yikes, how did I miss that...
― clemenza, Sunday, 21 November 2021 02:07 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year ago) link
(Fidyrich/Big Bird cover)
^ this tbh
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 17 December 2021 23:49 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year ago) link
How much would you give for one of those cardigans.
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 3 February 2022 22:00 (one year 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 (one year ago) link
intrigued by the evolutionary process of ears
andrew siciliano is certainly a throwback
― mookieproof, Friday, 4 February 2022 06:54 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year ago) link
ah thanks!
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 4 February 2022 11:30 (one year 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 (nine months ago) link
mushrooms
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Friday, 27 May 2022 06:18 (nine 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 (nine months ago) link
https://www.sportsnet.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Rickey-Henderson-Blue-Jays.jpg
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Friday, 27 January 2023 03:53 (one month ago) link
https://ftw.usatoday.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2019/09/gty-1171386230.jpg?resize=1024,724
― here you go, muttonchops Yaz (gyac), Friday, 27 January 2023 09:08 (one month ago) link
tom seaver and gary gentry
https://i.imgur.com/5iZ1JGd.png
― z_tbd, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 04:42 (one month ago) link
Are they replacing all those divots?!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 04:45 (one month ago) link
they're checking out the carnage, i guess! it's from after the 1969 world series
― z_tbd, Thursday, 23 February 2023 17:01 (one month ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/x1xB5Fj.png
― z_tbd, Tuesday, 28 February 2023 20:56 (three weeks ago) link
I love the harry dean stanton phase of matt carpenter's career
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 28 February 2023 22:22 (three weeks ago) link
he's rugged
― z_tbd, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 00:27 (three weeks ago) link
Needs cigarette.
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Thursday, 2 March 2023 02:19 (three weeks ago) link
damn it's been a minute since i really followed baseball and i never wouldve guessed that's matt carpenter! it's amazing what a beardless mustache does for a guy's look. take all those pesky ad patches off the uniform, run that thing through a sepia filter, and it would fit right in on a goudey gum card from the 1920s (ok the uniform fit is a bit off)
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 2 March 2023 18:25 (three weeks ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/n718gF4.png
― z_tbd, Thursday, 2 March 2023 18:59 (three weeks ago) link
whoops, meant to do the sepia as well. might as well triple post this image and get it right, so that we can remember this great old timer from the days when winning the world series money meant not having to work at taco bell for the winter
https://i.imgur.com/nOZRK1v.png
― z_tbd, Thursday, 2 March 2023 19:02 (three weeks ago) link
kinda like this:
https://imgur.com/a/79i8ZlS
lol xpost - considered adding a cigar myself!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 2 March 2023 19:14 (three weeks ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/13k8eUo.jpg
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 2 March 2023 19:15 (three weeks ago) link
oh there you go, much better!
― z_tbd, Thursday, 2 March 2023 19:18 (three weeks ago) link
now we're talkin, thank you photoshop wizards
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 3 March 2023 17:38 (two weeks ago) link
Al Oliver, circa 1973 @Pirates pic.twitter.com/INLoLyWaZa— Vintage Jerseys & Hats (@PolyesterUnis) March 18, 2023
― mookieproof, Saturday, 18 March 2023 21:11 (five days ago) link