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Angel Remy Hermoso 1974 Indians.

This is a fairly nice image for colorizing. The player image is sharp with good resolution of the face and uniform. The background isn't great though. The sky is washed out and almost plain white and the tree line is a bit blurry. The bat is also very undefined.
I decided in this case to start with the background. The first thing I did was trace the outline of the trees at the bottom. I then selected a nice dark green to try to hide the lack of detail. This remains a weak part of the image.
Next, I traced under Hermoso's arms and over the tree line and chose a bluish gray for the sky. I then traced around Hermoso so that I could finish the background. I made a bit of a mistake here as I forgot the top portion of the bat. When I got to the part of the bat between Hermoso's hands and where it disappeared behind his face I discovered that there is no discernible line on the left side of the bat. This led me to have to make a guess about the outline, so I attempted to follow the way the bat widens as it gets longer.I colored in the sky the same bluish gray I had used before, but found it was lacking in detail. There are some options in the "Filters" drop-down menu at the top of GIMP to add noise and blurs. One of these choices is "render" and to the left is "clouds." I chose the last option "solid noise" and then chose colorize and used the sliders to get a blue-gray color to try to match the sky in-between the arms.
Then I opened a second copy of the original black and white image. At the top, I traced around the side of the bat that has a line and then I had to fudge the other side, flipping back to the other image for reference. When I was satisfied, I cut and pasted the black and white bat-barrel into my work-in-progress. Third try was the charm.