Gambo and T_Wil1 Photopack

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Originally Posted by rico43

(missed Roseboro pummeling Marichal with a bat)

'twas Marichal pounding Roseboro...

[rico43]

Like I said, I missed it. And now I've missed it again.

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The latest RMY auction includes a treasure trove of hard-to-find Deadball and post-Deadball players. I'll post a few in the following posts, starting with Quinlan as offered in the auction.

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Facepack upgrade, as offered in the latest RMY auction.

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Facepack upgrade, as offered in the latest RMY auction.

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Clearer 1922 Yankees image, as offered in the latest RMY auction.

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Facepack upgrade, as offered in the latest RMY auction.

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Facepack upgrade and 1924 Indians uni, as offered in the latest RMY auction.

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1924 Senators uni, as offered in the latest RMY auction.

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Facepack upgrade, as offered in the latest RMY auction.

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Facepack upgrade, as offered in the latest RMY auction.

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1924 Robins uni, as offered in the latest RMY auction.

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Facepack upgrade, as offered in the latest RMY auction.

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Facepack upgrade, as offered in the latest RMY auction.

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Facepack upgrade, as offered in the latest RMY auction.

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Facepack upgrade and 1929 Cubs uni, as offered in the latest RMY auction.

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Clearer 1933 Giants image, as offered by eBay seller fedxit.

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1976 Angels, as offered by eBay seller dr.jteee.

[Terry D]

Orlando Sanchez was one of those guys who could never quite catch a break in the majors but who might have had a significant career if an organization had shown any real confidence in him. The Mets let him go after only a year or so, but he matured as a hitter in the Phillies system and the Cards drafted him after they let go their entire 1980 catching corps (Simmons, Kennedy, Swisher). Sanchez didn't have terrific home run power, but he often posted high slugging averages.Sanchez had two things against him. First, the Cards had a lot of other catchers on their roster (Porter, Tenace, Brummer, later Quirk and Rayford). Second, while he could hit he was a pretty poor defensive catcher, his throwing being particularly weak. As a result, Sanchez got lost in the shuffle. He didn't see a lot of action with the Cards in their 82 championship year, he had just a so-so 83 at Louisville, and the Cards got rid of him. He played briefly with the Royals in 84 and spent the balance of the season in the Baltimore system, getting just 8 ABs with the Orioles in his final major league season. Remarkably, Sanchez went on to play for nearly another decade, mostly in the Mexican league, and he later managed in Mexico for years. I think he could have helped a major league club if they had played him at first base or even stuck him behind the plate and said 'the hell with the glove work, just keep hitting.' Photos of Sanchez as a Card are readily available, but I have seen only one small and badly cropped shot of him with the Royals and none at all with Baltimore. Now here he is in an Orioles uniform, courtesy of ebay seller andy1921. I've been waiting for this for a long time.

[Merkle923]

His terrifying big league career won-lost record (2-13) shouldn't obscure the fact that Tom Parsons was a top prospect in the Pirates' system. He was in camp with them as early as 1958 (at age 18), and even as he logged most of that W-L with the Mets he had WHIPs of 1.34 and 1.38. Behind the particularly nightmarish 1965 results (1-10) his WAR was only -0.3 and his BABIP was .308, which suggests a lot of bad luck.

More over, even after that desperately long year in the Met rotation, the Astros were willing to surrender Jerry Grote for him straight up. Houston had actually obtained Parsons from Pittsburgh during the 1964 season in some sort of conditional trade with which the Pirates weren't satisfied.

This would be Parsons at the Mets' 1965 training camp.