Gambo and T_Wil1 Photopack

[Merkle923]

Sadly, not in the uniform of his only big league team, the Angels. This is from Reds camp, 1970 or 1971.

Today's Topps upload: Alonzo Harris 381-382; Brian Harper 383-384; John Harrell 385-386; Toby Harrah 387-390; Billy Harris 391-392; Terry Harmon 393-394; Jim Ray Hart 395-396; Bud Harrelson 397-400; Roric Harrison 401-404; Larry Harlow 405-408; Bill Harrelson 409-410; Lum Harris 411-414; John Harris 415-416; Vic Harris 417-420

[Merkle923]

That's who that is between Brian Harper and Toby Harrah. I knew he looked familiar: The two-game Giants' catcher with the lifetime .500 average and .625 OBP who averaged an RBI a game, and never got another day in the majors.

Seen one other color image of him, on his 1970 Topps rookie card.

[Merkle923]

You don't see these every day. From the extraordinary files of the eBay seller indicated:

[brobby05]

Hey Guys,


I see the words Topps Upload(s)...where can I see them or get them from?


Thanks,


BRobby05

[Cusick]

I'm under no illusion that this image is going to satisfy anyone's need for a decent photo or woodcut of John Fee. But our chances of finding such an image of this 7-game major leaguer with the 1889 Indianapolis Hoosiers are mighty slim. In the meantime, I thought someone might enjoy seeing this artist's rendition of Fee's suffering through a particularly arduous game while he was pitching for the Omaha Lambs minor league team. It comes from the Kansas City (MO) Star of August 17, 1891.

[dennis_keith]

April 16 marked the 70th anniversary of the first regular season games
played after the World War Two years.
On Tuesday 4/16/1946 a full slate of games was played to start the new season (and new era).
The Spring Thaw hadn't set in throughout the North East and Mid-West and a New York writer described the
Phillies-NY giants game at The Polo Grounds that day as
attempting to play baseball in an ice box. Despite less than ideal weather conditions all
8 games were played to completion.
Hall Of Famers Mel Ott, Hank Greenberg, Ted Williams, Ernie Lombardi and Joe DiMaggio homered that day and
HOF pitchers Bob Feller and Hal Newhouser opened the season
with wins, with Feller getting a shutout.

[FatJack]

Originally Posted by brobby05

Hey Guys,


I see the words Topps Upload(s)...where can I see them or get them from?


Thanks,


BRobby05

Not intending to sound negative, this gets asked and answered about every five pages. Most recently here. Some of the older folders are preserved by Baseball-Birthdays here.

[dennis_keith]

4/18/1950: Vin Scully joins Red Barber (Left) and Connie Desmond (center) to call his first MLB regular season
game for the Brooklyn Dodgers. 66 years later he is
beginning his final season as a Dodgers announcer.

[dennis_keith]

Here's the box score of the first MLB game Vin Scully called.
(April 18, 1950).
The Phillies knocked Don Newcombe out of the box in the 2nd
inning and used a 16 hit attack (12 singles and 4 doubles) to
coast to a 9-1 victory. Robin Roberts pitched a complete game
and the game marked the return of 1B Eddie Waitkus to baseball
after a near-fatal shooting 10 months earlier.
Waitkus (3 for 5), Granny Hamner (3 hits and 3 RBI), Mike Goliat
(4 for 4), Del Ennis (2 hits and 2 RBI) and Richie Ashburn
(1 for 3, with 2 walks and 2 runs scored) paced the attack.

[rico43]

Originally Posted by FatJack

Not intending to sound negative, this gets asked and answered about every five pages. Most recently here. Some of the older folders are preserved by Baseball-Birthdays here.

Actually, the Baseball-Birthdays site has been updated to include everything through Folder GY.

[baseball-birthdays.com]

Charlie Hastings, 1893 Cleveland Spiders, on offer at Heritage Auctions

[Merkle923]

Looks like only published negatives from Topps today but included among them is this borderline art shot of Billy Cowan with Anaheim's old "Big A" arch perfectly placed cherubically behind him, taken in 1971 and published in 1972.

Today's list (year used in parentheses): 444 Jackie Collum (57); 445-446 Tony Cloninger (65, 64); 447 Bob Coluccio (76); 448 Steve Comer (79); 449 Mike Compton (71); 450 Billy Consolo (61); 451 Mike Corkins (73); 452 Roy Corbin (73); 453 Rip Coleman (57); 454 Jim Constable (63); 455 Gene Conley (57); 456 Ron Herbel (63); 457 Billy Cowan (72); 458 Marlan Coughtry (62); 459 Ron Cook (71); 460 George Hendrick (78); 461 Steve Hargan (72); 462 Terry Harmon (72); 463 Mike Hargrove (76).

[FatJack]

Originally Posted by rico43

Actually, the Baseball-Birthdays site has been updated to include everything through Folder GY.

FWIW, it was not my intent to imply that John wasn't preserving the newer files on the nets, but that Topps had not preserved the older ones.

[FatJack]

I see that the Topps High Number Heritage sell sheet includes an autographed Reggie Jackson with a KC hat. Sure, it's photoshopped (we've all seen this very image with the "A" on the cap), bit it's not one of their worst.

[rico43]

Former Cubs, Orioles, Braves and Reds pitcher Milt Pappas, who totaled 209 wins, has passed away at the age of 76.

Was a young gun with the Orioles before going to the Reds as part of the historic return for Frank Robinson. From there, he moved to the Braves, where he was part of the 1969 Western championship team. His career concluded with four years with the Cubs, for whom he threw a no-hitter and was one ninth-inning pitch from a perfect game.

Off the field, the disappearance of his wife was a sad chapter for five years of his life. In 1987, her car and body were found in a pond less than a mile from her home after she disappeared on a shopping trip in 1982.

[RUKen]

Farmer Steelman 1899
Don't be fooled by the caption, which appears to have been a joke in the Philadelphia Inquirer. The photo accompanied a sports article that described the debut of Morris "Farmer" Steelman from southern New Jersey with the Philadelphia Athletics in August 1901. Steelman had previously played for Louisville in 1899 and Brooklyn in 1900 and 1901.

[FatJack]

Originally Posted by rico43

Former Cubs, Orioles, Braves and Reds pitcher Milt Pappas, who totaled 209 wins, has passed away at the age of 76.

Was a young gun with the Orioles before going to the Reds as part of the historic return for Frank Robinson. From there, he moved to the Braves, where he was part of the 1969 Western championship team. His career concluded with four years with the Cubs, for whom he threw a no-hitter and was one ninth-inning pitch from a perfect game.

Off the field, the disappearance of his wife was a sad chapter for five years of his life. In 1987, her car and body were found in a pond less than a mile from her home after she disappeared on a shopping trip in 1982.

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Some lesser known or talked about Fun Facts concerning Milt Pappas.

He was born Milton Pappastediodis. I, for one, am glad he shortened it.

His nickname was "Gimpy". Not what you'd expect for a professional athlete. Milt said he got the nickname following knee surgery at age 17 and it just kinda stuck.

Nearly all of Milt's pro career took place in the majors. Signed by the O's straight out of high school in 1957, he was a Bonus Baby and reported straight to the major league team. The O's tried to hide him on the DL, but the Commissioner's office discovered that Milt was pitching batting practice and ordered he be activated. He pitched two games for the O's and was optioned to Knoxville where he appeared in three games before being recalled in September. Those three games in Knoxville would be the only games Milt played in the minor leagues.

He was the first major league hurler to win 200 games without a single 20 win season. The feat has become more common these days as we have fewer and fewer pitchers with 20 win seasons, now that we have 5 man rotations, innings caps, and so many relief specialists.

He was the last American league pitcher to hit a home run to win a 1-0 game until Nate Karns did so last year in an interleague game. The Pappas shot came off the Yankees Bill Stafford in 1962. In all, Milt hit 20 home runs in his career.

Speaking of home runs, Milt hit two in one game on August 27, 1961--a rare feat for a pitcher. Milt said that he the opposing hurler, Pete Ramos of the Twins, had agreed to throw each other only fastballs. Milt connected with one...Ramos did not. Come the sixth inning, with Pappas pitching a shutout, Ramos was a bit steamed at how their agreement had worked out...so he threw Pappas a curveball (literally and, I guess, figuratively as well). It hung and Pappas got his second roundtripper of the day. The O's won the game 3-0. Pappas went the distance, surrendering only 2 hits and 3 walks, and striking out 11.

Though it would not have stood under today's scoring rules, Milt is credited with a game played at second base. In a 1958 contest against Kansas City, O's manager Paul Richards figured he could avoid batting some of his weaker hitters in the first inning. Richards had another good hitting pitcher, Jack Harshman, batting fifth and Pappas seventh. But, when Harshman was due up, runners on first and second, Richards instead sent Gene Woodling to the plate. Woodling flied out, ending the inning. When the Orioles took the field in the bottom of the first, Billy Gardner was the second baseman and Pappas never took the field.

After his playing days, Milt would later manage a professional softball team, the Chicago Storm.

And Milt never ever forgave Brice Froemming for costing him the perfect game. 26 men up, 26 men down. Larry Stahl was Mr. 27. The count was 1 ball, 2 strikes. Three pitches followed. All were reportedly close. All were called balls by Froemming. Pappas would later alternate, publicly, between saying the final pitch was a strike and at least implying it might have been a ball. (His second wife maintains that he harbored no such doubts--that he maintained he'd thrown a strike to his dying day.) But he felt he should have gotten the call, either way, considering it was the final man in a perfect game. He argued that the final strike call in Don Larsen's Perfect Game was at least a foot outside.

When questioned after the game about calling his own way out of history--as the umpire of a perfect game--Froemming asked the reporters, "What are the names of the other umpires who called perfect games?" Crickets. "That's how famous I'd be."

Godspeed, Mr. Pappas. We will miss you.

The Cubs photo below accompanied several of Milt's obituaries. I believe its an AP photo. The Reds photo is a current eBay offering from the folks at Mears. The Braves and Orioles autographed pictures are current eBay offerings from johnsvaults. And the Chicago Storm image (presumably an autographed news clipping) is a current eBay offering from seller jamakae.

[Oriole1952]

I'm not sure if he pitched the 1st or 2nd ML game I ever saw, but Pappas and Hal, Skinny Brown did start the 1st two. (Fat Jack Fisher started the 3rd for sure) Milt was a very good pitcher, but a bit of a "jaker." He was always begging off assignments (Especially when a heavy hitting lineup was facing him) and he was known to want to turn the game over to the bullpen earlier than performance might have warranted. Every off season the hot stove talk in Baltimore is they should trade Pappas, a native Detroiter, to Detroit for Al Kaline, a native Baltimoron. In the end, they traded him for something even better. Most Oriole fans were happy to see Milt do well, in the NL. He was the most durable of the Oriole's 60's "Kiddie Korps." Steve Barber got a 20 win season and Chuck Estrada had better "stuff", but in the end Milt out-lasted them all and piled up higher career figures. RIP Milt and thanks so much for the childhood memories..they will be with me always.

[hobbs11]

Well, the TV folders blew past what was the mark on Hal today didn't they?

After a brief 4 game debut in 1970, he pitched 40 innings across 31 games in 1971.

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...ml#post3935307

[Merkle923]

At the end, with the 1986 Giants.

Today's Topps upload: 466-467 Neal Heaton; 468-469 Dave Heath; 470-471 Bill Heath; 472-473 Roger Hayward; 474-477 Cesar Gutierrez; 478-479 Glenn Gulliver; 480-483 Brad Gulden; 484-485 Reggie Jackson; 486-487 Hal Haydel; 488-489 Brad Havens; 490-491 Tom Hausman; 492-495 Andy Hassler; 496-497 Paul Hartzell; 498-499 Chuck Hartenstein; 500-503 Don Gullett; 504-505 Nolan Ryan