great portraits of baseball players

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earlnash, Saturday, 15 August 2015 03:38 (nine years ago) link

one month passes...

http://apps.startribune.com/blogs/user_images/randmid_1343147216_tkzubaz.jpg

former twins manager tom kelly

mookieproof, Saturday, 3 October 2015 00:01 (nine years ago) link

four months pass...

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pet bird ruffles

mookieproof, Friday, 12 February 2016 17:10 (eight years ago) link

one month passes...

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mookieproof, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 15:28 (eight years ago) link

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mookieproof, Friday, 1 April 2016 15:11 (eight years ago) link

ty

How Butch, I mean (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 1 April 2016 15:52 (eight years ago) link

one month passes...

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mookieproof, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 19:46 (eight years ago) link

two months pass...

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velko, Wednesday, 27 July 2016 07:29 (eight years ago) link

one month passes...

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brimstead, Sunday, 28 August 2016 05:08 (eight years ago) link

two months pass...

willie mcgee
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Spottie, Wednesday, 2 November 2016 20:41 (eight years ago) link

two months pass...

satchel
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Spottie, Friday, 13 January 2017 19:27 (seven years ago) link

four weeks pass...

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manny sanguillen and cane

mookieproof, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 17:00 (seven years ago) link

two months pass...

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.

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earlnash, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 02:16 (seven years ago) link

i did not remember how big jerry reuss was

mookieproof, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 02:26 (seven years ago) link

and to Lasorda's right, Red Schoendienst, still around at 94.

Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 14:29 (seven years ago) link

That's Walter Alston!

timellison, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 19:02 (seven years ago) link

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mookieproof, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 17:30 (seven years ago) link

four weeks pass...
two months pass...

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the 1898 cleveland spiders

Karl Malone, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 01:52 (seven years ago) link

dudes

mookieproof, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 01:58 (seven years ago) link

two months pass...
ten months pass...

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 (six 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 (six years ago) link

four months pass...

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mookieproof, Friday, 25 January 2019 22:17 (five years ago) link

four months pass...

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 (five years ago) link

two months pass...

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 (five 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 (five 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 (five years ago) link

seven months pass...
two months pass...

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 (four years 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

four months pass...

EKERSLY1.BMF pic.twitter.com/dKd8RfoH7W

— Corel Gallery 1994 (@Clipart1994bot) November 20, 2020

mookieproof, Friday, 20 November 2020 01:28 (four years ago) link

haha sweet!

brimstead, Friday, 20 November 2020 03:19 (four years ago) link

three months pass...

man.

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

seven months pass...

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mookieproof, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 05:09 (three years ago) link

billy 'bad wheels' buckner and... who?

Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 09:22 (three years ago) link

eastern tennessee's own phil 'scrap iron' garner

mookieproof, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 10:37 (three years ago) link

ahh of course!

Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 11:09 (three years 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 (three years 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 (three years ago) link

three weeks pass...

close enough

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mookieproof, Saturday, 20 November 2021 17:00 (three years ago) link

I should know...Siouxsie Sioux? Doesn't really make sense.

clemenza, Saturday, 20 November 2021 22:07 (three years ago) link

i believe that's a madonna

just staying (Karl Malone), Saturday, 20 November 2021 22:35 (three years ago) link

indeed. photo by the late mick rock

mookieproof, Saturday, 20 November 2021 23:17 (three years ago) link

Yikes, how did I miss that...

clemenza, Sunday, 21 November 2021 02:07 (two years 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 (two years ago) link


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