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
Are they replacing all those divots?!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 04:45 (one year ago) link
they're checking out the carnage, i guess! it's from after the 1969 world series
― z_tbd, Thursday, 23 February 2023 17:01 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/x1xB5Fj.png
― z_tbd, Tuesday, 28 February 2023 20:56 (one year ago) link
I love the harry dean stanton phase of matt carpenter's career
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 28 February 2023 22:22 (one year ago) link
he's rugged
― z_tbd, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 00:27 (one year ago) link
Needs cigarette.
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Thursday, 2 March 2023 02:19 (one year ago) link
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)
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 2 March 2023 18:25 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/n718gF4.png
― z_tbd, Thursday, 2 March 2023 18:59 (one year ago) link
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
― z_tbd, Thursday, 2 March 2023 19:02 (one year ago) link
kinda like this:
https://imgur.com/a/79i8ZlS
lol xpost - considered adding a cigar myself!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 2 March 2023 19:14 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/13k8eUo.jpg
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 2 March 2023 19:15 (one year ago) link
oh there you go, much better!
― z_tbd, Thursday, 2 March 2023 19:18 (one year ago) link
now we're talkin, thank you photoshop wizards
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 3 March 2023 17:38 (one year ago) link
Al Oliver, circa 1973 @Pirates pic.twitter.com/INLoLyWaZa— Vintage Jerseys & Hats (@PolyesterUnis) March 18, 2023
― mookieproof, Saturday, 18 March 2023 21:11 (one year ago) link
More than 10,000 rare baseball images from the @ruckerarchive are now available online in the #SABR Research Collection: https://t.co/lKc9XlI8Y3 pic.twitter.com/BMDGGHWjM0— SABR (@sabr) April 4, 2023
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 15:27 (one year ago) link
i don't think i'm doing this right
https://i.imgur.com/9bJzwhg.png
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 15:29 (one year ago) link
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
― clemenza, Thursday, 25 May 2023 19:16 (one year ago) link
Trivia lost to time: RJ*'s battery-mate on that team was Jack Del Rio**, both two-sporters.
*RJ: baseball & basketball **JdR: baseball & football
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 25 May 2023 19:48 (one year ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Thursday, 25 May 2023 20:16 (one year ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/3r9q5cZq/IMG-4436.jpgI 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.
― half the population ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (gyac), Tuesday, 4 July 2023 10:35 (one year ago) link