Gambo and T_Wil1 Photopack

[okcochise]

Looks really familiar. Definitely not Spencer. I think he looks more like Carl Warwick.

[Merkle923]

The Cardinal above is Jim McKnight, whose brief major league career was spent with the Cubs.

[keonleafs]

Originally Posted by Merkle923

The Cardinal above is Jim McKnight, whose brief major league career was spent with the Cubs.

Thanks for the ID and for the nice picture of McKnight...a great upgrade!!

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Ed Fitzpatrick as posted to ebay by seller memorylaneinc

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Walt Tragesser of the c. 1913-1915 Boston Braves sampled from a scan posted to ebay by memorylaneinc

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Bill Piercy of the '21 Yankees as posted to ebay by memorylaneinc

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Grover Hartley in what looks to be a 1913 Giants home uniform in a scan posted to ebay by memorylaneinc

[rico43]

A really sharp portrait of longtime major league shortstop Dick Bartell, taken in spring of 1939, his only season with the Chicago Cubs. Found in yet another Lexibell folder.
FYI, their training camp was on Santa Catalina Island.

[rico43]

A 1963 photo from the Lexibell folders brings together three generations of Pittsburgh Pirates third basemen.
From left to right are Hall of Famer Pie Traynor, who held down third from 1922-35 and earned induction in 1948; first year starter Bob Bailey, who held the job from 1963-67; and Bobby Byrne, age 79, who was the Pittsburgh third baseman from 1909-1913. Traynor was a spring training instructor at the time.

[rico43]

Strong Lexibell folder shot of a Red Sox short-timer, pitcher Bill MacLeod. In the big leagues barely a year after he signed, MacLeod appeared in two September games (1.2 innings, 0-1 record) in 1962. Never to reach the majors again, he was waiting for the call in AAA until 1967.

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Lynn Brenton with the 1915 Cleveland Indians, recently offered at RMY Auctions...

[rico43]

I've come to understand that there are small but dedicated group of collectors who are drawn to photos such as this one like catnip.
A Lexibell folder unveils a shot from the Cleveland Indians' 1958 spring training camp where former MVP Al Rosen, a badly broken finger newly healed, shows off his grip to pitcher Duane Pillette. The back of the photo indicates that Pillette, whose final big league season would wind up being 1956, was with the Indians on a "look-see" basis. They did not like what they saw, as Pillette spent the '58 season split between the Reds and Cubs' AAA teams. He never pitched for the Indians, majors or minors.

[rico43]

Grady Hatton enjoyed an 11-year major league career, mostly with the Reds, between 1946-56. After two seasons as a player-manager for San Antonio, he was hired by the Cubs midway throgh the 1960 season as a player-coach.
Joining Charlie Grimm's staff, it was yet another 90-loss season for the Cubbies, and Grimm would be replaced by Lou Boudreau in one of the oddest moves ever by a major league club, Former Indians player-manager Boudreau came out of the Cubs' broadcast booth, and Grimm took his place behind the mike.
Meanwhile, Hatton batted a brisk .342 with seven RBIs in 28 games for the Cubs, mostly as a pinch-hitter. He would move on to the still-forming Houston Colt 45s, managing in the majors and minors, serving as vice president and director of player personel. After managing the now-Astros from `66-68, he scouted and coached for the team through 1972.
Photo from the Lexibell files.

[Merkle923]

There are a few problems with the supposed 1958 date on the Duane Pillette/Al Rosen photo. Firstly, Rosen's broken finger occurred in 1955, and thus had healed by spring training 1956. Secondly, Rosen retired after the 1956 season (though he attended most Cleveland camps thereafter as a batting instructor). Thirdly, Pillette joined the PCL Seattle Rainiers - a Reds affiliate - in midseason 1957 and remained with them into 1958, making his appearance in the 1958 Cleveland camp unlikely at best. We know he was a free agent in the spring trainings of 1956 and 1957 - we can't be sure he was in 1958.

The uniforms are no help - Cleveland wore those "insignia enclosed by a C" cap from 1951 through spring training of 1958.

The safest bet is to identify the photo as 1956-58 with 1956 the likeliest because of the gesture about Rosen's finger.

[Penale52]

The January 2016 SABR Pictorial History Committee newsletter features an analysis of a photo from Opening Day, April 29, 1886 between the Boston Beaneaters and New York Giants. Work by Tom Shieber and John Thorn has confirmed that missing umpire and player Wes Curry is featured in the photo.

[Ctrane]

Tony Cuccinello - 1930

[KenRaffensberger16]

Since people are speaking of Duane Pillette on this page;;;;;;;
Duane Pillette pitched the last game in St. Louis Browns' history.
On Sept. 27, 1953 in St. Louis Pillette and the White Sox' star lefty Billy Pierce both had shutouts through nine innings. The game was decided in the top of the 12th on a two-run double by Minnie Minoso with each hurler going the distance. That was the end of the American League franchise in St.Louis as the team soon announced that they would move to become the Baltimore Orioles for the 1954 season.

[KenRaffensberger16]

The Phillies announced that they will introduce a new, alternate all-red jersey this season. (seen here modeled by pitcher Aaron Nola).
It is scheduled to be worn only six times this season. With the exception of it's debut date of April 14, it will be worn on five "Getaway Dates", on the last games of homestands.
There's a joke in there somewhere, that someone who is a more accomplished joke and story teller than myself could tap into. It has something to do with disgruntled, traditionalist, Phillies fans running the team out of town five times this season because they disapprove of their team's new, more flamboyant look. (Because they wear the new jerseys on getaway days - get it?)
Oh, where's Conan O'Brien when you need him?

[Merkle923]

...there are actually people who believe the alternate uniforms, throwback uniforms, camo uniforms, throwback uniforms, military appreciation day uniforms, Memorial Day caps, July 4th caps, Labor Day caps, Spring Training caps, Spring Training tops, Batting Practice tops, Batting Practice caps, All Star caps, and all the others worn by the Phillies and every other team, have any purpose other than to separate you from your wallet.

Please note a point that's come up several times recently here: at least as late as 1976 a big market team planning a complete overhaul of its cap and uniform design (White Sox) still wore the previous year's tattered regular season uniforms again in Spring Training.

[SNAP]

Originally Posted by Merkle923

Nothing unusual about seeing Peterson in a Yankee uniform - but there is seeing him in one, at Shea Stadium. He was dealt to Cleveland on April 28, 1974, after exactly one appearance for the Yanks in their temporary home.

This was the deal that netted New York Chris Chambliss for Peterson, Steve Kline, Tom Buskey, and Fred Beene. It is impossible to reconstruct the reaction in New York, which was of anger and horror that the Yankees had surrendered "half their pitching staff" just to get a first baseman. Just more proof that the fans and media are often wildly wrong.



I also never understood how the Yankees thought they were fixing things after the Peterson/Mike Kekich "life swap" by dealing Kekich to Cleveland in 1973, and then Peterson to the same team early in '74.

Is that a 1st basemen's mitt he's wearing?