Gambo and T_Wil1 Photopack

[Jabez54]

Has Robby's type ears but he had played for the Giants ...

[UKBaseballfan]

Boston Red Sox

[Dto7]

Originally Posted by Buccos.com

I've had this photo for years, never could figure out who it is.

On the reverse, 'Robert Thomson 1952' is typed.

Not too many Thomsons in pro ball ... and no 'Thompson' s who played for the Pirates in the early '50s.

Any ideas?

Thankew,
J

There were two Robert Thomson that played in the minors around that time.

[Cusick]

Robert Charles "Whitey" Thomson was a shortstop who was on the Pittsburgh Pirates' spring roster in 1951. The roster listing gave his birth date as Oct. 8, 1928 and indicated that he was from Starkville, Colorado.

[UKBaseballfan]

1927 Cincinnati Reds

[tnfoto]

1995 Braves.

[UKBaseballfan]

1927 St. Louis Browns

[Braves70]

Pittsburgh Pirates 1979-82

Manny Sanguillen (1979 Topps Vault) / Gene Pentz (1979 Topps Vault) / Don Robinson (1980 Topps Vault) / Pascual Perez (1980 Topps Vault) / Paul Moskau (1982 Photo)

[Braves70]

Oakland A's 1971-72

Jim Roland (1971 Topps Vault) / Larry Brown (1971 or 1972 Photo) / Reggie Sanders (1972 Topps Vault) / Don Stanhouse (1972 Topps Vault) / Greg Schubert (1972 Topps Vault)

[okcochise]

I have been meaning to ask a question to see if anyone here might know why Topps Vault has had until now, very few White Sox in the powder blue home unis of 1969-1970? It has been very few and far between that I can recall.
Thanks,
Jeff

[Expos 1969-2004]

He played 4 games in 1991 for the Expos.

[Expos 1969-2004]

2 pictures published in 1987

[Merkle923]

Jeff:

Judging from the Topps cards of that era and the stuff I saw in the archives, it looks like two things happened.

Topps had a staff photographer based in New York, and another one from Dallas who worked mostly Arizona spring training and a couple of west coast trips each year. Nobody from Chicago until maybe 1975. So, any in-season shooting of the White Sox in 1969-70 would've been on the road.

I don't see any spring training photography at all for the White Sox that would date to 1969. That was a dicey spring for Topps. Some time late in 1967, the brand new players' union asked players to stop posing for new photos until Topps would agree to a union-wide contract and more money (previously they had signed players one at a time, for $1 apiece, and paid them $125 if their photo was used). The deal resolving this wasn't struck until some time in Spring Training 1969 and it's very likely that some teams weren't photographed that spring.

If you look at the '69 Topps White Sox cards, they're almost all in the road unis, or in the old navy blue uniforms in photos that dated back as far as 1966, or in capless photos from other teams. The photo of Don Secrist on the White Sox rookie card was actually taken while he was with Indianapolis the year before, and Bill Melton's rookie card actually depicts him as a member of the 1968 Syracuse Chiefs.

As to 1970, Topps clearly did shoot at White Sox camp - there's a rookie card in a late series featuring Mickey Scott, who only joined the Sox that year. With him are Danny Lazar and Bart Johnson, and the photos were clearly all taken as part of the same shoot. And they're all wearing road uniforms. It was not uncommon in those days for teams to wear road uniforms at home in spring training.

There's also a 1971 Rich McKinney in the home powder blues that must've been taken in Sarasota in the spring of 1970 (the card was in a series that was on the shelves before Spring Training 1971 even began), so there might be a few more powder blues out there - but it wouldn't seem that there would be many.

Other than those 1967 Kansas City "white cap" Diego Segui images I posted the other day, I do not recall seeing any Topps Vault image that was from a shoot where at least one picture wasn't used on a card somewhere - so the likelihood of there being some collection of unused White Sox home blues from 1969-70 is microscopic.

Hope that explains it.

So. Little evidence

[hobbs11]

Originally Posted by Braves70

Boston Red Sox 1973-74


Craig Skok (1973 Topps Vault) / Tommy Harper (1973 Topps Vault) / Rick Burleson (1973 Topps Vault) / Mario Guerrero (1974 Topps Vault) / Dick Drago (1974 Photo)

Any chance there is a Jim Rice and Fred Lynn in the same unis and hats anywhere out there for the 1974 season? Thanks!

[UKBaseballfan]

Can anyone identify this 1929 Braves player wrongly identified at source as Cookie Lavagetto.


Thank you.

[Sir Lurksalot]

Lou Legett. tnfoto originally posted this one a few years ago.

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...ml#post3235969

[Cusick]

The 1929 Braves player is Lou Legett. For another image of Legett, see the following webpage: Louis A. Lou Legett by Retro Images Archive - Louis A. Lou Legett Photograph - Louis A. Lou Legett Fine Art Prints and Posters for Sale

[rrb77]

Montreal Expos 1991

[Cusick]

This Charles Reising photo was extracted from a team photo of the 1884 Indianapolis Hoosiers. It was found on Reising's Find-A-Grave website, where it was placed by John "J-Cal" Griffith. I confirmed the source of the photo with John Griffith.

Dto7 has discovered that this excerpt came from a team photo of the 1865 Brooklyn Atlantics, and not from the 1884 Indianapolis Hoosiers. So it is an unidentified player, and NOT Charles Reising.

[Cusick]

This image of John Dailey comes from the National Police Gazette of October 30, 1886.