Gambo and T_Wil1 Photopack

[keonleafs]

Originally Posted by Merkle923

Today's Topps upload update (KA): ... 691-692 Harry Dahl (Washington system); ....

Merkle, you are the best at identifying these Topps pics, and are a real help to us all on this thread. But I have a real tough time here with your listing of KA 691-692 as Harry Dahl, comparing these 2 Topps images with one of Dahl from the TSN Collection Archives (Mears auctions), and 2 others from Kyle's Sportscards. Of course, these 3 are B&W, and I may be dead wrong, but still...And I have no clue on who it would be...

[Rainmaker]

After trolling your thread for weeks and learning the ropes about these Topps Vault updates, my old card collecting blood has been stirred because of photos -- excuse me, images -- like this KA 727 of Dick Davis.
According to Baseball-Reference, Davis was with Toronto for exactly one week (June 15-22) between stops in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
And if this is true, the Phillies traded him for Wayne Nordhagen. And the Pirates acquired him -- for Wayne Nordhagen! Apparently it was a three-team deal, Nordhagen going to Pittasburgh for Bill Robinson.
I guess I wonder if one can appreciate how rare something is when you didn't even realize it existed.
Long live the Vault!

[Buccos]

Originally Posted by keonleafs

I have a real tough time here with your listing of KA 691-692 as Harry Dahl,

Could he be ... Robert Decker? See ToppsVault HY380 and 381.

[Dto7]

Chick Bowen with 1920 Rochester Hustlers

[SPORTSMEM817]

Found this photo in Lexi files and cleaned it up a bunch

[keonleafs]

Originally Posted by Buccos

Could he be ... Robert Decker? See ToppsVault HY380 and 381.

Thanks, very nice catch!! Seems to be Decker....same teeth.

[Cusick]

Originally Posted by keonleafs

Thanks, very nice catch!! Seems to be Decker....same teeth.

Agree with the catch. Thanks, keonleafs, for raising the question about the Harry Dahl identification in the first place, and thanks, Buccos, for the revised identification. The B&W Bob Decker photo below was for sale on eBay back in 2011. Decker was on the Washington Senators' spring roster in 1963 and 1964.

[Pinetarpress]

Is this the 3 games in 1975 Houston Astro Jesus De La Rosa in today's KA TV

[Merkle923]

Decker - you're right. I just kicked that. I've seen both of their 1965 negative files and switched them in my mind, never checked. Apologies.

And the Astro is the obscure Jesus De La Rosa

[Merkle923]

Obscure Angels' first baseman.

Friday's Topps uploads (KA) 731-732 John DeMerit; 733-734 Larry Demery; 735-736 Joe DeLuise (LAD system); 737-738 Bob DeLong (SF system); 739-740 Bobby Del Greco; 741-742 Puchy Delgado; 743-744 Luis DeLeon; 745-746 Oscar Del Busto (Balt. system); 747-748 Jesus De La Rosa; 749-750 Mark DeJohn; 751-754 Ivan DeJesus (Sr); 755-756 Jim Deidel; 757-758 Arturo DeFreites; 759-760 TBD (LHP, Cincinnati); 761-762 Charlie Dees; 763-764 Jeff Dedmon; 765-768 Joe Decker; 769-770 Don Demeter; 771 Joe Decker; 772 Tommy Dean; 773 Boots Day; 774 Mike Davison; 775 Willie Davis; 776 Ron E. Davis (1962); 777 Dick Davis; 778 Brock Davis; 779 Bob Davis; 780 Ted Davidson; 781 Rich Dauer; 782 Bill Davis; 783 Bobby Darwin; 784 Clay Dalrymple; 785 Steve Dalkowski; 786 Paul Dade; 787 John Curtis; 788 George Culver; 789 Julio Cruz; 790 Rich Reese.

[Merkle923]

Obscure infielder - still in the game as a Cardinals instructor - whose major league debut came in his 12th pro season.

[Merkle923]

Everybody knows this extraordinary story; after years of epic minor league wildness (he had only two true outcomes: walks and strikeouts) Earl Weaver got a hold of him in 1962 and taught him to throw nothing but his rising fastball and slider.

Dalkowski had made the Orioles as a reliever in 1963 and was just tuning up against the Yankees in Florida when he threw the slider and something popped in his elbow. He never appeared in the majors, and within three years was out of the game and working as a migrant farm laborer.

The Dalkowski negative uploaded today was from the image Topps took in March, 1963 and used on his Rookie Card (he really had made it) and doubles the number of known color images of the pitcher who might have been the fastest of all-time (the other is a rough scan of a capless Topps image, it's shown below):

[Merkle923]

Looks vaguely like Tom Dettore, the lefty of the Cubs of '74-75. But he doesn't exactly fit the alphabetical sequence (his last name should be a Dee or Def) and I see nothing suggesting Dettore was ever in camp with Cincinnati.

Sleuths?

(Mr. Lumpkin has, below, correctly ID'd this as the longtime Senator/Ranger lefty pitching prospect Art DeFilippis).

[Cusick]

Tony DeFrancesco was a right-handed catcher who was a non-roster invitee with the Reds in 1990.

Seems like the nose in the second photo is a pretty good match for the Topps Vault photo, and the mouth, when he is talking in the third photo, is also a pretty close match.

Can't explain why the Topps Vault photo shows him as a left-handed pitcher, unless he was clowning around.

[Cusick]

Merkle, you have identified KA 735-736 as Joe DeLucia. I've been unable to figure out who that player was. Neither baseball-reference.com nor my newspaper searches have come up with anything on him. What position did he play? Do you know approximately what spring he was with the Dodgers? Thanks, in advance, for your help on this.

[rlumpkin1@tampabay.rr.com]

Originally Posted by Merkle923

Looks vaguely like Tom Dettore, the lefty of the Cubs of '74-75. But he doesn't exactly fit the alphabetical sequence (his last name should be a Dee or Def) and I see nothing suggesting Dettore was ever in camp with Cincinnati.

Sleuths?

maybe it is a clean shaving Art DeFillippis he was a non roster in 1977 and his # was55. it kind of look like him

[Merkle923]

Rule 1) never ID players while walking your dogs.

Rule 2) old mistakes by others are easier to repeat than making new ones yourself. In the Topps files this player was identified as Joe DeLucia and I assume when this gets posted on eBay the mistake will continue.

In fact he's Joe DeLuise, photographed in spring training 1966. He's also in the TSN Baseball Guide in 1969 as ERA champ of the California League in '68. Joseph DeLuise Register Statistics & History | Baseball-Reference.com

Also: I agree on DeFilippis. The lighting of the spring training shot fits with others from Reds 1977, not with Reds 1980.

[Rainmaker]

Showing that everyone's good work paid off....here is younger DeFilippis.

Kudos to all of you sleuths.

[keonleafs]

Originally Posted by Merkle923

Obscure Angels' first baseman.

Friday's Topps uploads (KA) ...743-744 Jose DeLeon; ....

Luis DeLeon not Jose.

[rlumpkin1@tampabay.rr.com]

anyone with Don Anderson, Joe Hamende, Al Weis, in Reds uni's? Anderson, Hamende-1970 NRI, Al Weis-1972 NRI. THANKS for any response