Gambo and T_Wil1 Photopack

[Braves70]

Cardinals of the 1970s

Rick Wise (1972 Topps Vault) / Danny Godby (1974 Photo) / Lynn McGlothen (1974 Topps Vault) / Ron Fairly (1975 Photo) / Benny Ayala (1977 Photo)

[Dto7]

Frank O'Rourke 1912 UNI Senators-clean up of photo post#20681

[hobbs11]

Originally Posted by tnfoto

How's this one?

Greeting tnfoto! Any chance that you can offer this pic of Mr Mincher in a larger size? And/or does anyone else have another photo of Don as an 'A' in 1972?

Thanks!

[hobbs11]

I am also looking for Bob Locker, Bill Voss,and Brant Alyea in those green, gold, or the white unis they wore that year....

Thanks!!

[okcochise]

2013 was a great year in terms of my baseball card project. Thanks to all the contributors of the great images.

One thing I have had to do given my support of both Actionpc and Replay games was to make available cards using both naming formats. That has all changed now. With the recent upgrade of APC, the naming formats are now the same for both games and as a result, my cards will now be different from previous releases.

This will require some work on your part if you use them for APC. I have removed the year and year ranges; instead keeping the cards in individual seasonal folders. The cards will also no longer be provided in team folders. The naming structure is as follows:

Hank_Aaron_MIL

Other tasks that I am still completing myself is to change the Manager names in APC to include the _ between first and last name so that they are the same for both games. If a manager was on more than one team for a given season, his name on the second team will be as follows.

Billy_Martin_

Something different for Replay gamers is that instead of only having one card for each player per team, there will now be multiple images available for most players including a default card. For instance, you will find the following for most players:

Lee_Maye_HOU
Lee_Maye_HOUc
Lee_Maye_MIL
Lee_Maye_MILc
Lee_Maye_MILd

Those with multiple cards will have letters (a-z) to designate the extra cards. The default for each team will of course be the name without the letter suffix. I have gone through every player from all of the 18 seasons I have created cards for (1956-1973) and hope that I haven't missed anyone.

I do regret that there are some other differences between the two games which will require some extra work. The team abbreviations are not identical for both games. The teams that are different are also not consistent with regards to Replay. It only includes 3 teams which I will identify now with the seasons they differ. In fact, here are the teams which are the same for each of the seasons they appear.

ATL=Atlanta Braves
BAL=Baltimore Orioles
BOS=Boston Red Sox
BRO=Brooklyn Dodgers
CAL=California Angels
CHA=Chicago White Sox
CHN=Chicago Cubs
CIN=Cincinnati Redlegs/Reds
CLE=Cleveland Indians
DET=Detroit Tigers
HOU=Houston Colt .45s/Astros
KCA=Kansas City Athletics/Royals
LAA=Los Angeles Angels
LAN=Los Angels Dodgers
MIL=Milwaukee Braves/Brewers
MIN=Minnesota Twins
MON=Montreal Expos
NYA=New York Yankees
OAK=Oakland Athletics
PHI=Philadelphia Phillies
PIT=Pittsburgh Pirates
SDN=San Diego Padres
SEA=Seattle Pilots
SFN=San Francisco Giants
TEX=Texas Rangers

The three teams which have different abbreviations for various seasons are the following:

NYN=New York Giants/Mets for every season except 1957 when it is NY1 for the Giants.
STL=St. Louis Cardinals for every year except 1960, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1971 and 1972 when it is SLN.
WAS=Washington Senators/Senators for every year except 1957 and 1960 when it is WSH.

I was forced to use the name used in Replay since that cannot be modified like APC. There were also some different rules in Replay which included not having periods in names like J.C._Martin. I have removed them for both games but may have missed one here and there. The same goes for when middle initials are used; I will update any names I have missed in future updates. Because of the before mentioned limitation of not being able to modify player names in Replay, I will abide by whatever name is used there for both games.

Because of all of these changes all of my previous cards have been removed from my website and replaced with the new format. Each season zip file will include one folder with every card I have created for every player for that season (no longer separated by team folders). I regret any extra work this may cause you but it has most definitely reduced the amount of work needed going forward. I no longer need to have two complete sets of cards for each player. In fact, I also kept a third set previously which I used as a master so I have reduced my cards by 2/3. As I said, I will include name corrections in subsequent updates once I notice them.

Thanks again to all who have helped with this project. Happy 2014!

Game Front

[Lefty Lee]

Dto7,
Like your clean-up jobs on B&W images. I'm upgrading 1915 Phillies photo pack. Need clean-up of Joe Oeschger image posted by Tnfoto 4-13-2009, p. 461. Can you help? Many thanks.
Lefty Lee

[tnfoto]

Originally Posted by Lefty Lee

Dto7,
Like your clean-up jobs on B&W images. I'm upgrading 1915 Phillies photo pack. Need clean-up of Joe Oeschger image posted by Tnfoto 4-13-2009, p. 461. Can you help? Many thanks.
Lefty Lee

Here are a few other Oeschger/Phillies options I've found since I last posted him...

[tnfoto]

Originally Posted by hobbs11

Greeting tnfoto! Any chance that you can offer this pic of Mr Mincher in a larger size? And/or does anyone else have another photo of Don as an 'A' in 1972?

Thanks!

That's the largest size I have of that photo, but I enlarged it a bit with PhotoZoom Pro. This is the biggest size I can offer without suffering worse image degradation.

[tnfoto]

By request...

[Lefty Lee]

Tnfoto,
Thanks for Oeschger and Ellerbe images.
Lefty Lee

[Sir Lurksalot]

Originally Posted by FatJack

As long as we're all gettin' our wish lists on, I'm just looking for a couple right now.

A good George Brunet with the Pilots (not the lousy newspaper pic or the tiny, tiny head shot I already have)
and anything Dan Boitano with the Mets

I know there have to be a few of Brunet with Seattle; I suspect there may not be anything other than the Wiz card for Boitano as a Met (unless the Topps Vault guys are holding something in their shorts ).

Gary Thurman as a Met would also be welcome.

This one was sent to me from my friend Bill. It's not great, but perhaps you could use it as a placeholder.

[Dto7]

Best I could do

[Braves70]

Originally Posted by hobbs11

I am also looking for Bob Locker, Bill Voss,and Brant Alyea in those green, gold, or the white unis they wore that year....

Thanks!!

Here is what I have from 1972 for your A's list

Brant Alyea (2 Topps Vault)

Bob Locker (Photo with no hat unfortunately)

Bill Voss (Only have this black & white)

[Braves70]

Philadelphia Phillies of the mid 1970s

Joe Hoerner (1975 Topps Vault)

Alan Bannister (Photo from 1974 or 1975)

Ollie Brown (1976 Topps Vault)

Rick Bosetti (1976 Photo)

Barry Foote (1978 SSPC card)

[Braves70]

1970 Minnesota Twins from Topps Vault

Danny Thompson / Cesar Tovar / Jim Holt / Dave Boswell / Rod Carew

[hobbs11]

Originally Posted by Braves70

Here is what I have from 1972 for your A's list

Brant Alyea (2 Topps Vault)

Bob Locker (Photo with no hat unfortunately)

Bill Voss (Only have this black & white)

Prefer color but Brant and Bob will do.....thank you much!

[lebby20]

Trying to make the player image on the Brace photos "pop" more from the background. Many don't have the same contrast that the vault images do between the player and the background scenery. Give me your opinion I can take it. I used the same Cardinals spring training backdrop for all but the background can be changed to a more era specific one. Alan Bannister (compare to one listed above), Dave Campbell, Ed Farmer, and Tony Conigliaro.

[okcochise]

They look good, Mark! Great work.

[Buccos]

Yes, the Brace photos are much more vibrant now. You've improved them, though they are too bloody small.

We, as photo collectors, love Geo Brace for the photos of ridiculously obscure, single digit at-bat guys he supplied us with. With that said, he had NO idea how to use a camera. He must have set *everything* on Automatic and pushed a single button. His photos need help, and you've provided that help.

Here's what I've noticed: The background needs to be blurred. It's >100 feet behind the player. The background needs to be just *suggested*, but it's as prominent as the player right now.

And I'd make the pics larger ... but I'm assuming you would've if you could've.

[tnfoto]

Facepack upgrade and 1919 Senators uni.