great portraits of baseball players

One thing about the Dick Allen photo above, the one where he's smoking and juggling three baseballs: that was used for the cover of Sports Illustrated. I can't remember if it was '72, heading into his near-Triple Crown year, or '73, right after. Pretty sure such a cover shot would be verboten today; there's lots of things the player could be doing that wouldn't have been okay then, but it's the other way around when it comes to juggling baseballs...I mean, smoking.

― clemenza, Monday, 25 April 2011 03:45 (fourteen years ago)

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― sanskrit, Monday, 25 April 2011 13:51 (fourteen years ago)

speaking of cell phones

http://acidcow.com/pics/20100809/the_30_worst_baseball_cards_of_all_time_03.jpg

― frogbs, Monday, 25 April 2011 14:50 (fourteen years ago)

these are great too

http://acidcow.com/pics/20100809/the_30_worst_baseball_cards_of_all_time_12.jpg
http://acidcow.com/pics/20100809/the_30_worst_baseball_cards_of_all_time_27.jpg

― frogbs, Monday, 25 April 2011 14:51 (fourteen years ago)

those are portraits?!

― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 25 April 2011 14:56 (fourteen years ago)

sure

― roxymuzak, Monday, 25 April 2011 14:58 (fourteen years ago)

cmon don't turn this one into a semantics argument

― frogbs, Monday, 25 April 2011 15:41 (fourteen years ago)

I tried to post this way upthread and it didn't take. One of my favourite SI covers ever:

http://www.krakov.net/si/images/1979/0409_large.jpg

I wish they'd redo it with either Halladay and Lincecum, or Pujols and...Hallady and Lincecum it is.

― clemenza, Monday, 25 April 2011 16:49 (fourteen years ago)

is it pretty jarring to see all these big time, big-assed Pittsburgh players, they've been horrible ever since I was 7!

― frogbs, Monday, 25 April 2011 17:18 (fourteen years ago)

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkwc7sADgX1qzniimo1_400.jpg

― mookieproof, Monday, 9 May 2011 03:49 (fourteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://www.shorpy.com/files/images/15833u_0.jpg

"Harvard Eddie" Grant, third baseman for the Cincinnati Reds, 1911. Eddie, a Harvard grad who practiced law after his retirement from baseball, was among the first to enlist in the Army after the United States entered World War I in 1917. An infantry captain, he was killed by an exploding shell in France, where he is buried.

― mookieproof, Monday, 30 May 2011 23:30 (fourteen years ago)

A friend just e-mailed this to me--pretty great.

http://www.life.com/gallery/60701/never-seen-photos-willie-mays?xid=weeklytopten#index/0

― clemenza, Friday, 10 June 2011 18:58 (fourteen years ago)

one month passes...

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpl4sygdXZ1r14kguo1_400.jpg

the grandy man

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 21:40 (thirteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/tracerhand/BabeRuth-Dodger-1938.jpg

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 11:06 (thirteen years ago)

eight months pass...

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?num=0&parent_id=137159&word=&snum=&s=¬word=&d=&c=&f=&k=0&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&sort=&imgs=20&pNum=

omg u guys

― Grimy Little Pimp (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 19 May 2012 21:07 (thirteen years ago)

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4ajg5BzrP1qk9es5o1_500.jpg

― mookieproof, Sunday, 20 May 2012 02:10 (thirteen years ago)

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4ef9e6Vfz1qzniimo2_500.jpg

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:23 (thirteen years ago)

four months pass...

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mc0nkiit251r6i35po1_500.jpg

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:25 (twelve years ago)

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mc1si3g1CW1r9hrxoo1_500.jpg

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:26 (twelve years ago)

two months pass...

im a little late but yikes

― flag this post and die (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 01:29 (twelve years ago)

http://24.media.tumblr.com/aaecf5d022a95d2044d18297cb4b4ddf/tumblr_mexpzcYCp41qdsqb1o1_500.jpg

honus wagner in the '40s

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 19:56 (twelve years ago)

aw i love that!

― flag this post and die (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 20:26 (twelve years ago)

it is kinda weird considering how much honus wagner already sounds like '40s penis slang

― kristof-profiting-from-a-childs-illiteracy.html (schlump), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/rr251/mookieproof/maddog_zpsb5264152.jpg

this bill madlock poster hangs on the wall of my childhood bedroom; photo courtesy of my dad

― mookieproof, Saturday, 12 January 2013 03:36 (twelve years ago)

― flag this post and die (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 17:38 (twelve years ago)

one month passes...

http://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/7e838db645965269738e293497f0db66/tumblr_mjbjyrdQrW1qzniimo1_500.jpg

le grand chat, circa 1979 (age 18)

― mookieproof, Saturday, 9 March 2013 01:32 (twelve years ago)

― purp (roxymuzak), Sunday, 10 March 2013 07:47 (twelve years ago)

who is that near-nudie you posted a few posts up

― purp (roxymuzak), Sunday, 10 March 2013 07:48 (twelve years ago)

that is ted williams

― mookieproof, Sunday, 10 March 2013 07:50 (twelve years ago)

holy shit. i cant believe i didnt recognize him but its rare that i see him in tiny silk booty shorts, to be fair

― purp (roxymuzak), Sunday, 10 March 2013 16:38 (twelve years ago)

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