Gambo and T_Wil1 Photopack

[tnfoto]

Originally Posted by brobby05

Would anybody happen to have nice portraits of Stan Thomas and Steve Foucault in the 1974 uniforms looking as they do in the attached photos including mustaches?


Thanks!


brobby05

Here are a few 1974 Rangers options for Foucault.

[tnfoto]

Originally Posted by brobby05

Would anybody happen to have nice portraits of Stan Thomas and Steve Foucault in the 1974 uniforms looking as they do in the attached photos including mustaches?


Thanks!


brobby05

I do not have any color portraits of Thomas with the Rangers.

[brobby05]

Originally Posted by tnfoto

Here are a few 1974 Rangers options for Foucault.

Thanks for your trouble. I might still try to use the current Thomas photo unless I find a larger one of the same and I might use the 73 version of Foucault that I got on here. I always like to be as authentic as possible...meaning, the correct year of uniform for the season of MVP Baseball 2005 that I'm editing. For example, due to my poor amount of knowledge in digital artistry, I got in action photos of the 74 Mike Cuellar & Steve Yeager off of Getty's. I needed a portrait of Steve Yeager as per the 74 WS with wire-framed glasses and a mustache as attached. Guys enjoy these photos...I also attached a couple of the ones I got here and you can see my labeling process by the name.


Thanks,


Brobby05

[DeweyintheHall]

Previous posts asking about Jim Kremmel in a Rangers uni are a couple years old, so I thought I'd make the request again and see if there's anything new out there....also anything of Sonny Siebert as a Ranger other than the black and white team issue would be nice.

[tnfoto]

Originally Posted by DeweyintheHall

....also anything of Sonny Siebert as a Ranger other than the black and white team issue would be nice.

I know this probably isn't what you're looking for, but here's a non-team-issue photo from 1973.

[DeweyintheHall]

Originally Posted by tnfoto

I know this probably isn't what you're looking for, but here's a non-team-issue photo from 1973.

Nope - this is great - thanks!

[cinemaodyssey]

Here's a non-woodcut image of O'Connor, who absolutely destroyed the baseball for the pennant-winning Louisville Colonels in his brief stay in the majors. Why he didn't receive more opportunities is a mystery to me. He is pictured here with the 1897 Guelph Maple Leafs.

[DeweyintheHall]

The last "no luck" posts in this forum are 4 years old so I thought I'd check - have any legitimate pics of Zachary in Pirates garb surfaced in the last few years?

[DeweyintheHall]

Anything of Tischinski in a Dodgers uniform? When Joe Ferguson broke his thumb in June of 1973, Tom was brought up from Albuquerque and stayed with the big club until Ferguson was activated again on July 10 - never got into a game, though.

Thanks!

[Terry D]

Bob Owchinko was a left-hander who spent almost a decade in the majors without ever distinguishing himself very much. Chink played college ball for Eastern Michigan, and the Padres were impressed enough to make him a top draft pick in 1976. During the course of his story about scout Ray Scarborough, Roger Angell got to see Owchinko pitch and talked to him a little. Angell doesn't say so, but Owchinko came off sounding like a rather spoiled and complacent young man who regarded a major league career and success therein as no more than his due. Like most major leaguers Owchinko had been a star all his life and expected to be so in the future, but he soon found out different. His career MLB ERA and H/IP were unimpressive, and his K/BB not much better. Unlike some other players I've examined here, Owchinko did not shine much more in the minors than he did in the bigs. Owchinko had an ugly rookie season for the Padres in 77, but he did improve his ERA some in the next two seasons. Nonetheless, the Padres dispatched him to Cleveland as part of a complicated three-corner deal for Jerry Mumphrey. Chink had a bad year for the Tribe in '80 and was quickly sent on to Oakland. Billy Martin's A's needed left-handed pitching, and Chink became a project for Martin and pitching coach Dick Fowler. Unlike some of the other young A's pitchers, however, Owchinko did not turn his career around under Martin. He and Martin did not get along at all, and after two forgettable seasons for the A's Owchinko was released. He spent '83 in the Pirates chain, then surfaced again as a long reliever for the '84 Reds. At one time strictly a curveball-fastball pitcher, Owchinko was by now throwing about four pitches in his effort to survive. He didn't pitch in the majors in '85 and was lucky to get a free-agent contract for 1986 out of the Expos. The Montreal pitching staff was hit by injuries that year, and while Owchinko's numbers at AAA Indianapolis weren't super he impressed everyone with his hard work and determination. The spoiled young man Angell had met was long gone by now, and the Expos called Owchinko up late in the year. He started three times and went 1-0, 3.60. Not great, perhaps, but pretty OK and certainly better than any of us could do. Along the way to Montreal, Owchinko had earned much unkind notoriety. In 1980 he toured Japan with the Tribe and the Japanese died laughing because "Owchinko" supposedly sounds like "small penis" in Japanese. In Oakland, Owchinko was known as "The Human Batting Tee." After all that, those three good starts in Montreal at the end of his big league career must have been a kind of vindication for Owchinko. A color image of him with the Expos was posted here a long time ago, but it is in fact a photoshop job based on a Topps card, '81 or '83 I think. Here is a pretty fair black and white image from newspapers.com, showing Owchinko pitching against the Pirates.

[DeweyintheHall]

Rogelio Moret died in his hometown in Puerto Rico Monday of this week. The former Red Sox lefty got the win in game 2 of the 1975 ALCS over Oakland.

With the Rangers in 1978, he got into a single game before being put on the DL on April 13 after being found in what was termed a "catatonic" state in the Ranger clubhouse. After undergoing psychiatric care he returned to the Rangers on May 27, to a standing ovation in Arlington. He got into another 8 games before being granted a leave of absence to be with is pregnant wife in Puerto Rico. While in Puerto Rico he was placed in a psychiatric hospital after suffering another incident. He was placed on the DL on June 22, and never returned to action.

[Cusick]

This may be improved quality for a photo of Rupert Mills, whose only major league experience was with the 1915 Newark Federal League team. This photo shows him with that team. The photo comes from the Facebook page of Jay Gauthreaux.

[sorcabul]

Originally Posted by Cusick

Not sure where I obtained this photo of Meredith -- probably it was displayed on eBay.

it's actually spelled Meridith with an I instead of the 2nd E
https://www.baseball-reference.com/p...eridro01.shtml

[rrb77]

1918 Brooklyn Robins...from current RMY auction wearing 1920 uniform

[rrb77]

1921-22 Boston Braves...from current RMY auction wearing 1920 uniform

[rrb77]

1924 Pittsburgh Pirates...from current RMY auctiom

[cinemaodyssey]

The news today from MLB is that the Negro League stats and players have gained Major League status. Like the American Association, Union Association, Player's League and the Federal League, the Negro League players will be featured in my upcoming Facepack. This is a very positive announcement from baseball!

[DeweyintheHall]

Originally Posted by cinemaodyssey

The news today from MLB is that the Negro League stats and players have gained Major League status. Like the American Association, Union Association, Player's League and the Federal League, the Negro League players will be featured in my upcoming Facepack. This is a very positive announcement from baseball!

Great news indeed!

Now if they'd just get rid of the UA...

[Cusick]

Originally Posted by cinemaodyssey

The news today from MLB is that the Negro League stats and players have gained Major League status. Like the American Association, Union Association, Player's League and the Federal League, the Negro League players will be featured in my upcoming Facepack. This is a very positive announcement from baseball!

Hope this announcement generates more interest in the Negro Leagues forum of this portion of the OOTP website. The forum begins on the page at the following link:

https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...d.php?t=199642


It should be understood that MLB is endorsing only a certain, limited era of Negro League stats and players as being major league equivalents. That era covers the years 1920-48. The photo postings on the OOTP Negro Leagues forum also cover Negro League players from eras before and after that period.

[ortforshort]

Interesting Link:

https://www.alternet.org/2020/12/hou...9797&list_id=2