Gambo and T_Wil1 Photopack

[hobbs11]

Originally Posted by hobbs11

HG356 is OF Rick Peters

And I'll bet a Sunday dinner that HE439 is P Don Hood

[rico43]

Originally Posted by hobbs11

And I'll bet a Sunday dinner that HE439 is P Don Hood

The eyebrows are right, but it'd be the first photo I've seen of Hood without a 'stache.

Does that make it rare? Or just harder to ID?

[tnfoto]

Originally Posted by rico43

The eyebrows are right, but it'd be the first photo I've seen of Hood without a 'stache.

Does that make it rare? Or just harder to ID?

It's Hood, most likely in spring training 1972. Pictures of him with a naked upper lip aren't all that uncommon. Here are a few.

[Merkle923]

From the top

Mike Christino, Tigers 1963
Rick Peters, Tigers 1980
Marvin Lane, Tigers circa 1974
Vic LaRose, Cubs 1969
Don Hood, Orioles 1972

[jeffersons34n2]

Originally Posted by tnfoto

It's Hood, most likely in spring training 1972. Pictures of him with a naked upper lip aren't all that uncommon. Here are a few.

My father played with Don Hood with the Red Wings and the Orioles....any minor league photos of Jesse Jefferson maybe? Thanks.

[Smokey68-75]

Originally Posted by keonleafs

That player had 2 pics from Topps, the one you posted GJ061, but also a batting pose, GJ060. First clue, behind him on this one, there is no22, Ike Blessitt, who played only one season in the majors with the Tigers, 1972. Second clue, in the Topps GJ series alphabetic order, he comes after Bill and Craig Robinson, and before Aurelio Rodriguez. There was a Robert Robinson, nicknamed Smokey (sic), a 1968 1st round Draft choice (18th) by the Tigers, who never appeared in a MLB game, but played 8 years in the Tigers farm system. I went on Ebay and found that 1973 Toledo Mud Hens pic of Smokey. It seems to be our guy!!

The above information is correct. Robert Murray (Smokey) Robinson.
This was the Major League Spring Training picture (1973). The Toledo Mud Hens picture was during the 1973 season.

[rico43]

Much to my aggrivation but ultimate relief, myself and others have fumbled some of the ID's along the way. But fellow researcher gilligantuan (no, I don't know what it means) has been gathering the TV images in folders BY NAME, making it very apparent when something is misidentified. I want tolay these to rest ASAP, beginnng with mega folder BC:

BC263 isn't Bud Daley...


BC1430 doesn't appear to be Bob Bowman...


Pretty sure that neither 2281 or 2296 is Bob Stinson




And for a fifth, the final image in HE not ID'd (373)


And I never want to leave off a thank-you to all.

[keonleafs]

BC1430 Bill Smith (Billy on his 1963 Topps...same pic)
HE373 Al Lakeman

BC273 looks like Jim Archer and wild wild guesses for the 2 catchers..Larry Haney and Hawk Taylor.

[Merkle923]

From the top:

Jim Archer, A's, 1961
Billy Smith, Phillies, 1962
Steve Sogge, Dodgers, 1969 or 1970
Tommy Smith, Royals, 1969
Al Lakeman, Red Sox (coach), 1964

[rico43]

Thank goodness we have folks willing to give these a second look.
I am tickled about this ID (BC2281). How many trivia addled members of this thread remember that Sogge was best known as being O.J. Simpson's quarterback at USC?



As for Jones, he is a total mystery to me. Not as a player, not as a draft pick, not in BB Reference. Can anyone shed any light on a guy who I still thinks looks like Hawk Taylor?

[Merkle923]

Conflated my 1969 minor league catchers (Johnny Jones and Tommy Smith). Corrected. That's Tommy Smith.

Tommy Smith Register Statistics & History | Baseball-Reference.com

[Cusick]

Originally Posted by rico43

As for Jones, he is a total mystery to me. Not as a player, not as a draft pick, not in BB Reference. Can anyone shed any light on a guy who I still thinks looks like Hawk Taylor?

Although Merkle has corrected the photo ID to Tommy Smith, in case you are still interested in Johnny Jones, he was a catcher on the Houston Astros' 1969 spring roster. His Baseball-reference record is at Johnny Jones Register Statistics & History | Baseball-Reference.com

His photo is attached.

[tnfoto]

As shown on his 1974 Angels team-issued photo.

[Merkle923]

During his brief '77-78 tenure in Seattle (most likely Spring Training 1978)

[Merkle923]

At the end, spring training 1975, Angels

[Merkle923]

Also tough to find with the '71 and '73 Orioles

[Merkle923]

In a year-appropriate uniform of the '62 Athletics (although this clearly dates to spring training '63 or '64, and the photographer hadn't yet nailed that whole "camera editing" thing).

And no, Topps did not post him with Cincinnati. I don't think they actually ever got him in a Reds' uniform.

[Merkle923]

Noticed a google image search of the light hitting infielder with the Cubs produces only his Topps cards. He's been posted today, as well.

[tnfoto]

Originally Posted by Merkle923

In a year-appropriate uniform of the '62 Athletics (although this clearly dates to spring training '63 or '64, and the photographer hadn't yet nailed that whole "camera editing" thing).

And no, Topps did not post him with Cincinnati. I don't think they actually ever got him in a Reds' uniform.

I had a free minute so I did a quick color correction...

[BklynJace]

Thought those of you who are Topps junkies like me might get a kick out of this: I won one of the eBay Daviault auctions and got his envelope along with the slabbed negative. Interesting!