great portraits of baseball players

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.

Rube Marquard

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Rube_Marquard_by_Bain%2C_1912.jpg

How much would you give for one of those cardigans.

when did the name "Rube" die out?

intrigued by the evolutionary process of ears

andrew siciliano is certainly a throwback

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

this thread is cool but don't sleep on this
rolling old-tyme baseball photograph thread

ah thanks!

Congrats to Sean Doolittle on hitting 10 years of Major League service today! pic.twitter.com/ICKm6scJyj

— Kyle Brostowitz (@KyleBrostowitz) May 26, 2022

mushrooms

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

https://www.sportsnet.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Rickey-Henderson-Blue-Jays.jpg

https://ftw.usatoday.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2019/09/gty-1171386230.jpg?resize=1024,724

tom seaver and gary gentry

https://i.imgur.com/5iZ1JGd.png

Are they replacing all those divots?!

they're checking out the carnage, i guess! it's from after the 1969 world series

https://i.imgur.com/x1xB5Fj.png

I love the harry dean stanton phase of matt carpenter's career

he's rugged

Needs cigarette.

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)

https://i.imgur.com/n718gF4.png

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

kinda like this:

https://imgur.com/a/79i8ZlS

lol xpost - considered adding a cigar myself!

https://i.imgur.com/13k8eUo.jpg

oh there you go, much better!

now we're talkin, thank you photoshop wizards

Al Oliver, circa 1973 @Pirates pic.twitter.com/INLoLyWaZa

— Vintage Jerseys & Hats (@PolyesterUnis) March 18, 2023

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i don't think i'm doing this right

https://i.imgur.com/9bJzwhg.png

USC's Rod Dedeaux and a couple of fresh-faced punks (one of whom was cut from the team).

https://phildellio.tripod.com/dedeaux.jpg

Trivia lost to time: RJ*'s battery-mate on that team was Jack Del Rio**, both two-sporters.

*RJ: baseball & basketball
**JdR: baseball & football

Checked to see if there was a book on Rod Dedeaux, and there is, from 2013--very short, but may order a copy. He coached a lot of great players, starting with those two and Seaver.

https://i.postimg.cc/3r9q5cZq/IMG-4436.jpg

I kept forgetting to post this, truly iconic photo of Lincecum imo. This is his first postseason game in 2010 vs Halladay’s Phillies. Other photos from this game are (maybe?) more well known because of the Phillies fans whistling/jeering at him but this one is incredible for the composition: the windup, the incongruity, the lights. Everyone remembers this game for the two Cody Ross “ssory doc” homers but Ross himself was talking about this game on a podcast and said Lincecum was the forgotten man of this game - held a loaded Phillies lineup to 3 runs in 7 innings.

Anyway.

Not quite what this thread is, but if I could have seen any three pitchers ever, these'd be the three.

https://phildellio.tripod.com/pitchers.jpg

again not a portrait but what a great picture. manny in left.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/resizer/2DTF0wzLfkbxg3lL4KNsmxmxIJ0=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-bostonglobe/ATSRF6HK3PH3C5KPX34DDHFEOE.jpg

from this article: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/07/24/sports/fenway-park/

Speaking of Boston and left field:

https://i.postimg.cc/65kv740X/yazted.jpg

Awww.