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) link
dudes
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 01:58 (seven 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 (six 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 (six 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 (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
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DxyJYRKVsAAwfmS.jpg
― mookieproof, Friday, 25 January 2019 22:17 (five 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 (five 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 (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
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVAjFsAUYAQ2-bT?format=jpg&name=large
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 15:17 (four years 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 (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
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 26 June 2020 21:55 (four years ago) link
EKERSLY1.BMF pic.twitter.com/dKd8RfoH7W— Corel Gallery 1994 (@Clipart1994bot) November 20, 2020
― mookieproof, Friday, 20 November 2020 01:28 (three years ago) link
haha sweet!
― brimstead, Friday, 20 November 2020 03:19 (three years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Evl27DSUcAA8L7t?format=jpg&name=large
― mookieproof, Thursday, 4 March 2021 16:41 (three years ago) link
man.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 4 March 2021 16:43 (three years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FCriKJPWEAc0_vR?format=jpg&name=medium
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 05:09 (two years ago) link
billy 'bad wheels' buckner and... who?
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 09:22 (two years ago) link
eastern tennessee's own phil 'scrap iron' garner
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 10:37 (two years ago) link
ahh of course!
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 11:09 (two 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 (two 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 (two years ago) link
close enough
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EU7Sw_YVAAI88Gu.jpg
― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 November 2021 17:00 (two years ago) link
I should know...Siouxsie Sioux? Doesn't really make sense.
― clemenza, Saturday, 20 November 2021 22:07 (two years ago) link
i believe that's a madonna
― just staying (Karl Malone), Saturday, 20 November 2021 22:35 (two years ago) link
indeed. photo by the late mick rock
― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 November 2021 23:17 (two years ago) link
Yikes, how did I miss that...
― clemenza, Sunday, 21 November 2021 02:07 (two years ago) link
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
the more i know about ted williams, the more i'm like fuck ted williams
― Karl Malone, Friday, 17 December 2021 18:19 (two years ago) link
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 (two years ago) link
(Fidyrich/Big Bird cover)
^ this tbh
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 17 December 2021 23:49 (two years ago) link
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 (two years ago) link
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 (two years ago) link
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 (two years ago) link
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 (two years ago) link
How much would you give for one of those cardigans.
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 3 February 2022 22:00 (two years ago) link
when did the name "Rube" die out?
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 4 February 2022 05:47 (two years ago) link
intrigued by the evolutionary process of ears
andrew siciliano is certainly a throwback
― mookieproof, Friday, 4 February 2022 06:54 (two years ago) link
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 (two years ago) link
this thread is cool but don't sleep on this rolling old-tyme baseball photograph thread
― buzza, Friday, 4 February 2022 10:55 (two years ago) link
ah thanks!
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 4 February 2022 11:30 (two years ago) link
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 (two years ago) link
mushrooms
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Friday, 27 May 2022 06:18 (two years ago) link
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 (two years ago) link
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 (one year ago) link
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 (one year ago) link
tom seaver and gary gentry
https://i.imgur.com/5iZ1JGd.png
― z_tbd, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 04:42 (one year ago) link