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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

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http://www.life.com/image/ugc1065781/in-gallery/47141/babe-ruth-rare-and-unpublished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

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

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.

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

Disgraced Homo Cop (Princess TamTam), Sunday, 28 November 2010 06:53 (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

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

three months pass...

man.

Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 4 March 2021 16:43 (two years ago) link

seven months pass...

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

three weeks pass...

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

three weeks pass...

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

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

^ 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

one month passes...

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

three months pass...

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

seven months pass...
three weeks pass...

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

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

two weeks pass...

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


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