great portraits of baseball players

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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/1898_Cleveland_Spiders.jpg

the 1898 cleveland spiders

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

dudes

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

two months pass...

https://twitchy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/astros_flag.jpg

ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 22 October 2017 12:54 (seven years ago)

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)

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)

four months pass...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DxyJYRKVsAAwfmS.jpg

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

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 (six years ago)

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)

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)

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)

seven months pass...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVAjFsAUYAQ2-bT?format=jpg&name=large

mookieproof, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 15:17 (five years ago)

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 (five years ago)

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 (five years ago)

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)

haha sweet!

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

three months pass...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Evl27DSUcAA8L7t?format=jpg&name=large

mookieproof, Thursday, 4 March 2021 16:41 (four years ago)

man.

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

seven months pass...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FCriKJPWEAc0_vR?format=jpg&name=medium

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

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

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

eastern tennessee's own phil 'scrap iron' garner

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

ahh of course!

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

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)

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)

three weeks pass...

close enough

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EU7Sw_YVAAI88Gu.jpg

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

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

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

i believe that's a madonna

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

indeed. photo by the late mick rock

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

Yikes, how did I miss that...

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

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 (three years ago)

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

Karl Malone, Friday, 17 December 2021 18:19 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/muppet/images/9/99/Sportsillustrated1977.JPG/revision/latest?cb=20181030143543

(Fidyrich/Big Bird cover)

clemenza, Friday, 17 December 2021 23:30 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

one month passes...

Rube Marquard

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

Tracer Hand, Thursday, 3 February 2022 21:56 (three years ago)

How much would you give for one of those cardigans.

Tracer Hand, Thursday, 3 February 2022 22:00 (three years ago)

when did the name "Rube" die out?

FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 4 February 2022 05:47 (three years ago)

intrigued by the evolutionary process of ears

andrew siciliano is certainly a throwback

mookieproof, Friday, 4 February 2022 06:54 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

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

buzza, Friday, 4 February 2022 10:55 (three years ago)

ah thanks!

Tracer Hand, Friday, 4 February 2022 11:30 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

mushrooms

Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Friday, 27 May 2022 06:18 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

seven months pass...

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

not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Friday, 27 January 2023 03:53 (two years ago)

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

here you go, muttonchops Yaz (gyac), Friday, 27 January 2023 09:08 (two years ago)

three weeks pass...

tom seaver and gary gentry

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

z_tbd, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 04:42 (two years ago)


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