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Old 03-02-2015, 07:59 PM   #24698
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Gil Kubski 1980

Appreciate the clarifications recently posted.

As for pegasus27's thought that "we all go there and grab them, why post them here?", well, "we" aren't generally that monolithic. Life gets in the way. And there's a lot of stuff to sort through there, it's good to have the new images posted, particularly if there's detective work involved in IDing the subject and not everyone can recognize Jay Kleven right off of the bat. Or heck, if it's just a nice picture. (Which it is. I see Jay died young, at age 59 in '09. Hope he enjoyed those two weeks in the show, where he got into exactly two games.)

And I definitely vote for making those older photos available; I would love to have them. Obviously nobody should be stupid enough to try and steal from Topps by making a cheap buck, but I would hope that a) none of us would do that and b) the possibility of having to prosecute some hypothetical future malefactor wouldn't impede the accessibility of the materials to responsible people.

Okay, that's my Back to business.

I've attended exactly one spring training camp in my life, the Angels camp in 1980, when they still trained in Palm Springs and my grandparents were wintering there. Also in attendance was outfielder Gil Kubski, later a successful scout. He had a few minor league cards made, but there's nothing of him in Angels garb currently on the Google Images, so…


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(With a skoshe of brightening and color tweaking, as I tend to do. Enjoy.)
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