Gambo and T_Wil1 Photopack

[cheech411]

Originally Posted by rainmaker

this amazing release today also includes a new folder mg 001-020.

Includes woodie held with the white sox (017), something i haven't seen before.

[Pinetarpress]

947-48 is Dave Smith who pitched in 1 game for the Angels in 1984 and 4 in 1985 with the Angels

[Merkle923]

Nope. Close, but different face.

[Cusick]

These photos are not Mike Smith, minor leaguer. I couldn't find any career minor league pitcher named Mike Smith who was in the Orioles' system.

MG 007 and the Topps card of Nate Snell are presented first below. Note especially the mole next to Snell's left eye in both photos.

Oddly, the Orioles had two right handed pitchers named Michael Anthony Smith in their spring camp in 1989. To keep them distinct from each other, they called them by their states of their birth. Mississippi Mike Smith is shown in the Pirates uniform. Texas Mike is shown in his Topps debut card with the Orioles. They both had some major league experience, but their stints with the O's were in Orioles uniforms with an underscore on the chest, later than the uniform shown in MG 007.

[keonleafs]

Originally Posted by Rainmaker

015-016 Granny Hamner; 017-018 Woodie Held; 019-020 Solly Hemus.

Attachment 493737

015-16 is Hemus, while 019-20 is Carl Sawatski

[Rainmaker]

Originally Posted by keonleafs

015-16 is Hemus, while 019-20 is Carl Sawatski

I am now utterly convinced of my own incompetence.

I swear I will not attempt any further IDs. Those of you with the resources (I consider it a gift) please carry the project forward. Sorry, yet again, for my errors.

I promise.

[Merkle923]

For a guy who had only two cups of coffee, with the '55 Phillies and '57 Cards, I've read a lot of hand-wringing over the years about photos of Lovenguth. To be fair, no color image of him has ever appeared.

Yet, for whatever it's worth, here he is at literally the last stop in his pro career, in the color team photo of the 1961 PCL Padres.

[rlumpkin1@tampabay.rr.com]

On the 1968 Oakland A's Spring Roster who were the rostered catchers on the spring roster

[Cusick]

Originally Posted by rlumpkin1@tampabay.rr.com

On the 1968 Oakland A's Spring Roster who were the rostered catchers on the spring roster

Dave Duncan #8, Rene Lachemann #18, Phil Roof #4

Source: Baseball Digest, April, 1968 Issue (confirmed by The Sporting News, Feb. 3, 1968, p. 35)

[Merkle923]

A few more Dexters.

Depending on whether the Angels really adopted the "CA" cap in September, 1965, Albie Pearson played as few as two games in this uniform. This is the same image as in the '66 Dexter card.

[Merkle923]

Another Dexter capturing a rare uniform. There's a Brace of the veteran reliever during his only season in Oakland (1968) but I think this is the only known color image of him in the A's home uniform.

[Merkle923]

And here's the well-traveled utility man in the only color shot I've seen of him in an Atlanta uniform, apart from the one shot Topps used on both his 1967 and 1968 cards.

[cheech411]

Originally Posted by Merkle923

And here's the well-traveled utility man in the only color shot I've seen of him in an Atlanta uniform, apart from the one shot Topps used on both his 1967 and 1968 cards.

ramon hernandez remy hermoso dave nicholson ed rakow
glen clark cito caston bob uecker THANKS

[cheech411]

ray webster f robinson k sanders joe keough d segui Jim Pagliaroni Jim Gosger George Lauzerique Warren Bogle Ed Sprague
Sal Bando Paul Lindblad Allan Lewis Danny Cater
Ted Kubiak
Jim Nash Rene Lachemann Reggie Jackson Dave Duncan THANKS FOR YOUR TIME !!!!!

[hobbs11]

Originally Posted by hobbs11

Hey there, it's a good question and I'll try and keep this to 2-3 per year.

Color images that are preferably Topps Vault (non SSPC for the mid 70s years), but will certainly take others if in some quality, and in the applicable uni:

1978 Tom Bruno-Stl, Don Werner-Cin, Mike Fischlin-Hou
1977 Tom Underwood- Stl, Woodie Fryman-Cin, Pete Broberg-ChiC
1976 Fred Scherman-Mon, Ruppert Jones-KC, Lerrin LaGrow - Stl
1975 Sonny Siebert & Jim Perry-Oak
1973 Fran Healy & Ken Wright-KC, Mike Caldwell-SD
1972 Eddie Leon-Cle, Pat Corrales-SD (banana unis), Cecil Upshaw-Atl
1971 Roy Foster-Cle, Hal Haydel- Min
1970 Jack Hiatt-ChiC, Tony Horton-Cle
1969 Vern Geishert-Cal, Ray Washburn-Stl

What a difference two years makes I suppose. During a search for Ken Wright, I tripped across my post when some of us were posting their own version of white whales. Its good to see that some have come to the surface (boldfaced) and proves that patience...well......um...err.....patience is worth waiting for. I think Yogi said that....

[Rainmaker]

Originally Posted by hobbs11

What a difference two years makes I suppose. During a search for Ken Wright, I tripped across my post when some of us were posting their own version of white whales. Its good to see that some have come to the surface (boldfaced) and proves that patience...well......um...err.....patience is worth waiting for. I think Yogi said that....

Leon, Healy and Wright are all in the Hall of Fame hoard that McWilliams entrusted to them. Can be bought (have Leon and Wright), but not shared per the rules of the Hall.

[Rainmaker]

After two days as a blank space, Folder MF946 has been filled with another Rob Sperring.

[Merkle923]

I'm afraid no on all the Braves and A's. I'll point out as a reminder that Bob Uecker would not have been in Atlanta's camp in 1967 (he was at Philadelphia's but I believe the negative was pilfered from the file before I received it, because there was no image of him, but there was a Uke autograph).

[rlumpkin1@tampabay.rr.com]

Hello. Are there any known photo's of Jack Baldschun in an Oakland A's Uni? I seen him listed on there 1969 Spring Roster.

[Rainmaker]

Originally Posted by rlumpkin1@tampabay.rr.com

Hello. Are there any known photo's of Jack Baldschun in an Oakland A's Uni? I seen him listed on there 1969 Spring Roster.

Topps or not, the existence of Baldschun would seem plausible. This is from his SABR biography:

By 1969 Baldschun appeared out of a job. Although he was still technically Cincinnati’s property, in February, at the request of the Oakland A’s, the Reds, who planned to release Baldschun, granted him a 30-day trial with Oakland; 1969 was an expansion year and the A’s had lost several pitchers to the new Seattle Pilots franchise, so Oakland was in desperate need of bullpen help.

In Arizona, despite pitching well for Oakland, Baldschun was the last player cut. Later, Oakland manager Hank Bauer, who’d been the Baltimore manager when Baldschun briefly became an Oriole, told the press that he’d wanted to keep Baldschun, but that owner Charlie Finley wanted to go with youth. On the afternoon of a spring-training game against San Diego, Bauer told Padres manager Preston Gomez that he was being forced to cut Baldschun, but that he thought the right-hander could help the Padres. So Gomez contacted Cincinnati, confirmed that Baldschun was available (he’d been released), and signed the veteran pitcher. The bargain-basement move was a boon for both Baldschun and San Diego, as he appeared in 61 games and won seven times for the expansion franchise.