Gambo and T_Wil1 Photopack

[rico43]

Spring 1968 Braves rookie Al Santorini. First time I've seen him in color!

From Henry Yee auction. (Yeah, I've bid on it!)

[Terry D]

Originally Posted by Merkle923

From the team 25th Anniversary book, with the Blue Jays, by request:

Thanks a million, super picture!

[rico43]

This rare gem from the current Yee auction is Larry Doby during his one-month stay with the Orioles in the spring of 1958. Doby and Don Ferrarese were dealt to the Indians -- Doby's original team from 1947-55 -- for Bud Daley, Dick Williams and Gene Woodling on April 1st, 1958.

[Merkle923]

I posted a home uniform spring training shot of this one-season (1968) Red from 'the' collection in December - http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...ml#post3962147 - and it turns out there's also a road uniform spring training shot as well:

[FatJack]

Originally Posted by Merkle923

New image auctions on eBay, probably 500 of them, mostly New York stuff, but there's an Al Schmelz negative available ;-)

hyee_auctions | eBay

Here's a 1962 Spring Training Don Zimmer image:

As a Mets fan, this is like Christmas! Color action shots from 62, white whales and everything!

[Expos 1969-2004]

Originally Posted by SDL

Are there any images of Bill Dillman out there?

I only have these 2 pictures of Dillman with the Expos. Not great. If someone has a better one, please post it.


Thanks

[ssacc98]

Not sure this qualifies as better

[rico43]

For the longest time, a Getty image of Floyd Robinson jumping rope was the best available shot of his 1967 season with the Reds. Then, the Lexibell files allowed an okay B&W shot of he and teammates. But the current Henry Yee sale on eBay has given us a Floyd Robinson shot that should suffice most anyone. Hey, it only took 49 years.

[rico43]

FIxed, with apologies...

Outfielder Carden Gillenwater, the pride of Riceville, Tenn., played in only five games for the St. Louis Cardinals in his MLB debut season of 1940. But there were six photos of him in the latest Lexibell folder we've perused, including his WWII seasons as the Boston Braves starting CF (43, 45-46). Here are the two from his spring with the Redbirds.

[baseball-birthdays.com]

Harry Dean, sampled from a wirephoto in my collection

[Merkle923]

That's Carden Gillenwater:

Carden Gillenwater Statistics and History | Baseball-Reference.com

He was literally the fan who caught a ball and was given a contract. From his obituary in the St.Petersburg Times in 2000:

"Someone from the pros first took note of Mr. Gillenwater's ability when he was 15.

He was crouched on the limb of an elm tree watching an exhibition game between New York Yankees and a Knoxville, Tenn., team, when Babe Ruth hit a home run.

"I caught the ball with my bare hands," he wrote. "About 10 minutes after I caught the ball, two men dressed in suits came up to the tree, looked up and said, "Which one of you caught that ball?' "

Thinking they were the police, Mr. Gillenwater threw them the baseball and jumped from the tree.

The men, however, were not police. One was from the Yankees' front office, the other was the president of the southern baseball league, wrote Mr. Gillenwater.

[Merkle923]

There's the well-distributed "on deck" pose from spring training for this original 1962 Met, a couple of spring training B&W portraits, and a nice B&W batting pose at the Polo Grounds (oddly enough in a road uniform), but I'd never seen this one until 'the' collection turned up.

Ginsberg was the catcher in the Mets' first ever home game, started again two days later, never played another major league game, and was released two weeks after that:

[BklynJace]

Best Mets Ginsberg ever. Thank you Merkle!

I always wondered why Ginsberg was at the Polo Grounds in a road uniform. Intrasquad game? Some event to show off home and away unis for the press corps? Has to be a story there.

[rico43]

The massive Lexibell archive is much like the so-far-released images from the Vault -- some players are heavily represented, others are seemingly MIA.
In the former category is late 50s journeyman pitcher Clarence Nottingham "Chuck" Churn.
We have had a handful of photos of him during his 14-game turn with the1959 Dodgers; we have one here. But he was also with the 1957 Pirates and 1958 Indians with no record and a combined 11 games. Here are photos from those stops as well.

[custard48]

Originally Posted by BklynJace

Best Mets Ginsberg ever. Thank you Merkle!

I always wondered why Ginsberg was at the Polo Grounds in a road uniform. Intrasquad game? Some event to show off home and away unis for the press corps? Has to be a story there.

The Mets held a photo op day at the Polo Grounds just before their inaugural home opener. The team wore their road uniforms.

[baseball-birthdays.com]

I'm wondering if anyone can recommend a scanner for odd-sized and oversized color transparencies. Specifically, a number of eBay vendors offer color transparencies up to 4"x5" in size and many others of variable, irregular sizes.

I have one of those small, cube shaped scanners for 35mm slides and it does an ok job, but I'd like to have something more versatile. Searching Amazon hasn't yielded much in the way of results short of seriously high-end machines. I would have thought that there would be something in between the $170 machines and the $900+ jobs... any suggestions?

Thanks.

[Merkle923]

No suggestions, but if you find one, let us know! Obviously there are professional scanners that can adjust to all negative and film positive formats. The one at the local photo shop (which is the only one I know in this zip code; there used to be one per block) is the size of an old fashioned office Xerox copier, and each of the irregular items has to be sized manually.

I've got a very nice and durable Epson V600 home scanner that can handle books, magazines, photos of all sizes, and has a special detachable bracket for slides (up to eight at a time) and strip film negatives (up to eight images at a time) that works spectacularly. But try an odd-sized negative, or a film positive like Topps Vault or McCarthys or whatever and I might as well be using the toaster.

[cheech411]

on e bay from baseball superman

[rico43]

Some may be way ahead of this, but FYI to everyone else:

JG 899-899a ID'd as Magglio Ordonez

AP 1604-1605 Jim McKnight, not Daryl Spencer (mentioned earlier on this thread)

EM 481-482 career Dodgers minor leaguer Mike Price (previously ID'd as Bob Priddy, who was neither a Dodger nor a lefty)

[baseball-birthdays.com]

Originally Posted by Merkle923

The one at the local photo shop (which is the only one I know in this zip code; there used to be one per block) is the size of an old fashioned office Xerox copier, and each of the irregular items has to be sized manually.

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I don't think that there's a photo shop anywhere on the Delmarva Peninsula here... I'm investigating online scannng services...