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 (ten years ago) link
http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/b71470cb002e42c1_landing
― 867-5309 (abdul) (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 10:57 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
http://kermittheblog.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/barry_bonds.jpg
― 867-5309 (abdul) (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 11:03 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
A.J. Foyt! There's a name from the past.
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 15:32 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
this one rich kid had his own easton black magic : /
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 15:56 (ten years ago) link
yeah, the christy pic definitely inspired the thread
― 867-5309 (abdul) (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 20:26 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/ggbain/09800/09869v.jpg
^
― 867-5309 (abdul) (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 20:36 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
Pretty basic, but iconic:
http://jackierobinsonfacts.com/images/Jackie_Robinson.jpg
― clemenza, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 21:52 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
Did Storm Thorgerson take the Ozzie Smith? WOW.
― Andy K, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 23:15 (ten years ago) link
Not Thorgerson, obv.
― Andy K, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 23:22 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
^emo
― JIMMY MOD THE SACK MASTER (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 25 November 2010 14:08 (ten years ago) link
williams looked so great back then.
― 867-5309 (abdul) (roxymuzak), Thursday, 25 November 2010 19:10 (ten years ago) link
http://photos.mycapture.com/STLT/731526/23161147E.jpg
― EDB, Thursday, 25 November 2010 19:13 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
ian johnson reminds me of joe dimaggio sometimes
― O⎠o⎠O⎠o⎠O (roxymuzak), Friday, 26 November 2010 20:47 (ten years ago) link
http://mlb.mlb.com/images/2008/02/09/wJQhul5t.jpg
― leTeReL (Leee), Friday, 26 November 2010 22:24 (ten years ago) link
that is neither a portrait, nor great
― O⎠o⎠O⎠o⎠O (roxymuzak), Saturday, 27 November 2010 01:28 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/DzQ89.jpg
― Disgraced Homo Cop (Princess TamTam), Saturday, 27 November 2010 01:30 (ten years ago) link
Potato, potato, roxy.
― leTeReL (Leee), Saturday, 27 November 2010 06:39 (ten years ago) link
http://www.sealclubbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/sammy_sosa_hitbypitch.jpg
― van smack, Saturday, 27 November 2010 20:17 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
this thread es fantastique
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 27 November 2010 20:43 (ten years ago) link
http://grab.by/7BBJ
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 27 November 2010 20:46 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yCdkXPm18SQ/RezR1OztT9I/AAAAAAAAAAk/QXyxnHt6cnw/s320/tekulve.jpg
― van smack, Saturday, 27 November 2010 22:15 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/HYtTa.jpg
― Disgraced Homo Cop (Princess TamTam), Sunday, 28 November 2010 06:53 (ten years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wFtDGrTjvGs/TNLOTxHLhpI/AAAAAAAABIg/ynAWdLy3oCM/s1600/27marichal_186115314.jpg
― leTeReL (Leee), Sunday, 28 November 2010 07:09 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
http://shootthemoose.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/babe_ruth_02.jpg
― van smack, Sunday, 28 November 2010 16:10 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
http://www.millerparkdrunk.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/gorman-thomas.jpg
― van smack, Sunday, 28 November 2010 16:20 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
ok Ross Grimsley
http://www.survivinggrady.com/ross_grimsley.jpg
― van smack, Sunday, 28 November 2010 18:16 (ten years ago) link
http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bp7_JrxCcAA5kf4.jpg
― mookieproof, Thursday, 12 June 2014 14:50 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BwDssdGIIAAlyYy.jpg
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 16:18 (seven years ago) link
http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/casey_stengel.jpg
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 02:12 (six years ago) link
http://www.corbisimages.com/images/Corbis-U96663ACME.jpg?size=67&uid=1f6d369b-36f6-4b48-95b8-ff675cc73272
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 November 2014 22:03 (six years ago) link
^Ruth and Gehrig at Dexter Park in Brooklyn* for an exhibition game inOctober 1928
*Wikipedia sez that Dexter Park was over the borough line, in Woodhaven, Queens.
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 November 2014 22:21 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B7Ppyb7CcAAO1zh.jpg
clark griffith, washington senators, 1912
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 13 January 2015 17:03 (six years ago) link
http://mlb.mlb.com/assets/images/1/4/8/111156148/cuts/legkick_cq7zqxf7_prstujei.jpg
murray state pitcher john lollar
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 17:22 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CB8QK3oWIAEYUk9.png
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 21:37 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CCkTg9DWEAEdnFC.jpg http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zOB6cnl5778/TdNdNm9gkeI/AAAAAAAACEA/HkKAUgDIXD4/s320/Ross+Stamp.jpg
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 14 April 2015 17:36 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CE0m07mWAAA3aBh.jpg
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 17:27 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CJVSfsBVEAAtz9I.jpg
your 1977 NL all-stars
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 18:51 (six years ago) link
ellis valentine with the obvious lack of media training
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 04:04 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CMGNhmcVEAAw3v-.jpg
― earlnash, Saturday, 15 August 2015 03:38 (six years ago) link
http://apps.startribune.com/blogs/user_images/randmid_1343147216_tkzubaz.jpg
former twins manager tom kelly
― mookieproof, Saturday, 3 October 2015 00:01 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CbB4hB5VAAAOiYu.jpg
pet bird ruffles
― mookieproof, Friday, 12 February 2016 17:10 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ceuay3CXIAASNe0.jpg
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 15:28 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ce90qqKWIAAvItS.jpg
― mookieproof, Friday, 1 April 2016 15:11 (five years ago) link
ty
― How Butch, I mean (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 1 April 2016 15:52 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CjPvrjpVAAIwVjQ.jpg
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 19:46 (five years ago) link
http://www.colimdo.org/media/2631779/rico_carty.jpg
― velko, Wednesday, 27 July 2016 07:29 (five years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/qn5DzQa.jpg
― brimstead, Sunday, 28 August 2016 05:08 (five years ago) link
willie mcgeehttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/CwR_2OYW8AQh827.jpg
― Spottie, Wednesday, 2 November 2016 20:41 (four years ago) link
satchelhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/C2D3UfZXgAAKnIB.jpg
― Spottie, Friday, 13 January 2017 19:27 (four years ago) link
Curt Flood at the canvas
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WyIYb-I_s8E/Utl058_mG_I/AAAAAAAAEdQ/d_7y4FAfEPQ/s1600/floodmlkcrop.JPG
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 17:07 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C4twVJaVYAEFK-i.jpg
manny sanguillen and cane
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 17:00 (four years ago) link
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
― earlnash, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 02:16 (four years ago) link
i did not remember how big jerry reuss was
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 02:26 (four years ago) link
and to Lasorda's right, Red Schoendienst, still around at 94.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 14:29 (four years ago) link
That's Walter Alston!
― timellison, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 19:02 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C9ytPl1UAAAZQzk.jpg
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 17:30 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four years ago) link
dudes
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 01:58 (four 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 (three 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 (two 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 (two 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year ago) link
EKERSLY1.BMF pic.twitter.com/dKd8RfoH7W— Corel Gallery 1994 (@Clipart1994bot) November 20, 2020
― mookieproof, Friday, 20 November 2020 01:28 (ten months ago) link
haha sweet!
― brimstead, Friday, 20 November 2020 03:19 (ten months ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Evl27DSUcAA8L7t?format=jpg&name=large
― mookieproof, Thursday, 4 March 2021 16:41 (six months ago) link
man.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 4 March 2021 16:43 (six months ago) link