Gambo and T_Wil1 Photopack

[DeweyintheHall]

I discovered when reading through my 1978 Sporting News collection that when the Giants made their September call-ups, they included 5 guys who didn't get into any games (including 3 that never made it into any ML games). Images of them in Giants garb would be fantastic:
Joe Strain (have his 1981 baseball card image, but would prefer something better)
Greg Johnston
Mike Glinatsis
Mark Kuecker
Mike Rex

Many thanks!

[rlumpkin1@tampabay.rr.com]

1952 Bill Bevens from cincinnativiews.net site. according to Ron Martin the story of Bill Bevans that he made the 1952 opening day roster, right before opening day he was sold to the San Francisco Seals

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Roger Freed, 1974 Reds, fills a slot on the UIN list

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Rocky Stone, 1943 Cincinnati Reds, the image is sampled from a scan from the lexibell archives and fills a slot on the UIN list.

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Roy Lee, 1945 New York Giants, the image is sampled from a wirephoto bought and sold a few years ago and fills a slot on the UIN list.

[rlumpkin1@tampabay.rr.com]

Originally Posted by baseball-birthdays.com

Roger Freed, 1974 Reds, fills a slot on the UIN list

nice photo of Freed in a Cincy Uni!!.

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Fay Thomas, 1927 New York Giants, image from the Conlon archives and filling a slot on the UIN list.

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Freddy Schmidt, 1947 Chicago Cubs, this so-so image is sampled from a lexibell archives scan and fills a slot on the UIN list.

[Rainmaker]

Stan Belinda, 2000 Atlanta Braves, listed as missing from UIN list.

Sorry it did not scan better; it is from FAN! Volume 35, Issue 3 from 2000 season.

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Andy Bednar, 1930 Pittsburgh Pirates. The image is sampled from a recently purchased wirephoto (date stamped March 20, 1930) and fills a slot on the UIN list.

[lebby20]

I am looking for an image of Alex Johnson in the 1971 uniform lower case "a"on hat and jersey, and Andy Messersmith wearing the 1972 uniform. See attached photo. The Angels only wore this style for one season. Note the capital "A" on the hat with the lower case "a" on the jersey. Anything color would be helpful. Thanks!

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Russ Lyon, 1944 Cleveland Indians. The image is sampled from a recently purchased wirephoto and fills a slot on the UIN list.

[FatJack]

Originally Posted by lebby20

I am looking for an image of Alex Johnson and Andy Messersmith wearing the 1972 uniform. See attached photo. The Angels only wore this style for one season. Note the capital "A" on the hat with the lower case "a" on the jersey. Anything color would be helpful. Thanks!

Alex Johnson was traded to Cleveland in October 1971, so I'm thinking he never would have worn the '72 uniform.

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[rlumpkin1@tampabay.rr.com]

how do you get the topps archives vault to open? it wont let me open them up

[Cusick]

Originally Posted by DeweyintheHall

I discovered when reading through my 1978 Sporting News collection that when the Giants made their September call-ups, they included 5 guys who didn't get into any games (including 3 that never made it into any ML games). Images of them in Giants garb would be fantastic:
Joe Strain (have his 1981 baseball card image, but would prefer something better)
Greg Johnston
Mike Glinatsis
Mark Kuecker
Mike Rex

Many thanks!

Are you sure that these guys were actually called up to the major league club and brought with the team? I haven't been able to confirm them using historical newspapers or the listing of "Sharman Society" players on baseball-reference.com (the website doesn't use that term).

The attached article is from the Arizona Republic of October 27, 1978, and pertains to Mike Glinatsis. It still considers him to be an AA level player, but implies plans for him to be on the San Francisco Giants 1979 spring roster. I'm wondering if that's what you picked up. The move for these five guys onto the 40-man winter roster which would carry over into the spring.

[FatJack]

Originally Posted by Cusick

Are you sure that these guys were actually called up to the major league club and brought with the team? I haven't been able to confirm them using historical newspapers or the listing of "Sharman Society" players on baseball-reference.com (the website doesn't use that term).

The attached article is from the Arizona Republic of October 27, 1978, and pertains to Mike Glinatsis. It still considers him to be an AA level player, but implies plans for him to be on the San Francisco Giants 1979 spring roster. I'm wondering if that's what you picked up. The move for these five guys onto the 40-man winter roster which would carry over into the spring.

Cusick is correct. This was a common practice in the 60s and 70s. Players would be "called up" in September--in that they were added to the 40-man roster for the winter--and instructed not to report until the spring. A good sportswriter would note the distinction...."Joe Blow was called up and instructed to report to the team in February"...but a Transaction report would just note that they'd been called-up. In these cases, they are generally not accepted as having been on the major league roster unless they appeared in a game or were listed as active in a game program.

That said, there could still be images of them in team garb if they remained on the 40-man roster into Spring Training the following year.

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Wayne Osborne, 1935 Pittsburgh Pirates. The image is sampled from a wirephoto bought and sold some time ago and it fills a slot on the UIN list.

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Originally Posted by rlumpkin1@tampabay.rr.com

how do you get the topps archives vault to open? it wont let me open them up

Are you referring to the files linked in my signature? If so (and presuming you're using a Windows machine), right click on the file and select "Extract Files." Then just specify the folder where you want the images to land.

[Merkle923]

Originally Posted by DeweyintheHall

I discovered when reading through my 1978 Sporting News collection that when the Giants made their September call-ups, they included 5 guys who didn't get into any games (including 3 that never made it into any ML games). Images of them in Giants garb would be fantastic:
Joe Strain (have his 1981 baseball card image, but would prefer something better)
Greg Johnston
Mike Glinatsis
Mark Kuecker
Mike Rex

Many thanks!

You've missed the date on this. It's reported in the October 21, 1978 edition of The Sporting News and refers to these players being added to the San Francisco roster after the 1978 season ended (see screen grab of the page from SABR's TSN archive below). Given the lag between the "close" of each TSN issue and the publication date, these moves were probably made around October 6 or 7. The Giants' regular season ended on October 1. None of these five players were on the Giants' active roster during 1978, sorry.