Gambo and T_Wil1 Photopack

[rlumpkin1@tampabay.rr.com]

Originally Posted by Rainmaker

Topps or not, the existence of Baldschun would seem plausible. This is from his SABR biography:

By 1969 Baldschun appeared out of a job. Although he was still technically Cincinnati’s property, in February, at the request of the Oakland A’s, the Reds, who planned to release Baldschun, granted him a 30-day trial with Oakland; 1969 was an expansion year and the A’s had lost several pitchers to the new Seattle Pilots franchise, so Oakland was in desperate need of bullpen help.

In Arizona, despite pitching well for Oakland, Baldschun was the last player cut. Later, Oakland manager Hank Bauer, who’d been the Baltimore manager when Baldschun briefly became an Oriole, told the press that he’d wanted to keep Baldschun, but that owner Charlie Finley wanted to go with youth. On the afternoon of a spring-training game against San Diego, Bauer told Padres manager Preston Gomez that he was being forced to cut Baldschun, but that he thought the right-hander could help the Padres. So Gomez contacted Cincinnati, confirmed that Baldschun was available (he’d been released), and signed the veteran pitcher. The bargain-basement move was a boon for both Baldschun and San Diego, as he appeared in 61 games and won seven times for the expansion franchise.

Thank You for that information.

[Rainmaker]

The older changes are correcting mistakes that are in the master checklist at Chop Country...



BZ581 is Bob Davis, San Diego catcher. He was among others of 1950s Kansas City pitcher Bob Davis (579-580, 582)



EM 414-415 are more of Steve Arlin with the Phillies. Were posted as Lowell Palmer

GC 658-659 are Rocky Nelson, not Rocky Bridges

FOLDER KF has posted used Topps images 746-765



FOLDER MG has posted several black and white glossies that were used on cards: 161 Jim Lemon (1954), 162 Ed Bouchee (1960), 163 Dick Hall (1960), 164 Bob Lillis (1960), 165 Bob Lillis (1963), 166 Jim Lemon (1963), 167 Gino Cimoli (1963), 168 Haywood Sullivan (1963), 169 George Brunet (1963), 170 Dick Brown (1963).

[SDL]

Originally Posted by Rainmaker

Topps or not, the existence of Baldschun would seem plausible. This is from his SABR biography:

By 1969 Baldschun appeared out of a job. Although he was still technically Cincinnati’s property, in February, at the request of the Oakland A’s, the Reds, who planned to release Baldschun, granted him a 30-day trial with Oakland; 1969 was an expansion year and the A’s had lost several pitchers to the new Seattle Pilots franchise, so Oakland was in desperate need of bullpen help.

In Arizona, despite pitching well for Oakland, Baldschun was the last player cut. Later, Oakland manager Hank Bauer, who’d been the Baltimore manager when Baldschun briefly became an Oriole, told the press that he’d wanted to keep Baldschun, but that owner Charlie Finley wanted to go with youth. On the afternoon of a spring-training game against San Diego, Bauer told Padres manager Preston Gomez that he was being forced to cut Baldschun, but that he thought the right-hander could help the Padres. So Gomez contacted Cincinnati, confirmed that Baldschun was available (he’d been released), and signed the veteran pitcher. The bargain-basement move was a boon for both Baldschun and San Diego, as he appeared in 61 games and won seven times for the expansion franchise.

Topps should've gotten him with the A's

There's always hope that any Baldschun A's pics will show up in a future Topps Vault release.

[SDL]

Originally Posted by Rainmaker

The older changes are correcting mistakes that are in the master checklist at Chop Country...



FOLDER KF has posted used Topps images 746-765

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746 ???
747 Sparky Lyle
748 Bill Lee
749 ???
750-751 Denny LeMaster
752-753 Jim Lemon
754 Dave Lemonds
755 Eddie Leon
756 Barry Lersch
757 Johnny Lewis
758-759 Bob Locker
760 Mike Lum
761 Lee "Bee Bee" Richard
762 Bob Lee
763 Mike Lum
764 Sixto Lezcano
765 Dave Lemanczyk

[Buster Narum]

746 is Al Luplow
749 is Don Lee

Thanks for posting the list

[SDL]

And Thank YOU for IDing Luplow and Don Lee for me (and anybody else who didn't recognize them).

[Merkle923]

Topps shot Baldschun with the A's.

[SDL]

Originally Posted by Merkle923

Topps shot Baldschun with the A's.

Has Topps released the Baldschun A's pics?I I haven't seen them in any of the released folders. unless I missed something.

[Rainmaker]

Merkle is our Yoda. He knows. Question not.

[Merkle923]

Baldschun/A's not released (yet). Tripped over it looking in the files years ago looking to see if they should him with the Padres in 1969, and if they had, why they instead went with a capless shot of him with the Reds from 1966 in the 1970 card set. The answer was, they had shot a lot of the Padres - Baldschun included - at Shea Stadium early in 1969 but the lighting and color were off. The art editor who had final call on what they published was far less interested in updated photography than he was in shadows and correct colors. Amazing.

[dennis_keith]

Does anyone have any photos of Minnie Minoso, pictured as a 1963 Washington Senator, to share with this forum?

[Rainmaker]

Originally Posted by dennis_keith

Does anyone have any photos of Minnie Minoso, pictured as a 1963 Washington Senator, to share with this forum?

One currently for sale. Easily found with Google search.

[FatJack]

Today's Vault release is kinda buried amongst other non-baseball releases (BKB, Star Wars, et. al.), so, in case anyone missed it, they're in the MG folder (221-260) and include Larry Stahl with the Reds and Padres, Marv Staehle with the White Sox, and I'm sure some more interesting folks I don't recognize. I was happy to see a few more images of one of my favorite Mets of the mid-70s, Roy Staiger. Here, we get him with both New York teams. I think (but then I would) that he was better than he gets credit for, but he just didn't have the power people expect from the corner guys. He would have been a better fit at second, but we had Felix Millan there and Roy certainly wasn't going to win a second base battle with Felix.

[Rainmaker]

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[cinemaodyssey]

Upgrade to Cobb's photopack image, shown here on the god-awful 1892 Orioles team that he contributed 37 losses to.

[cinemaodyssey]

I will throw in this upgrade for Johnson as well, pictured on the same 1892 squad (which was his final MLB appearance).

[cinemaodyssey]

One of the better pitchers the Orioles had going in the 1890s was McMahon. Here he is on the 1892 squad.

[SDL]

Originally Posted by FatJack

Today's Vault release is kinda buried amongst other non-baseball releases (BKB, Star Wars, et. al.), so, in case anyone missed it, they're in the MG folder (221-260) and include Larry Stahl with the Reds and Padres, Marv Staehle with the White Sox, and I'm sure some more interesting folks I don't recognize. I was happy to see a few more images of one of my favorite Mets of the mid-70s, Roy Staiger. Here, we get him with both New York teams. I think (but then I would) that he was better than he gets credit for, but he just didn't have the power people expect from the corner guys. He would have been a better fit at second, but we had Felix Millan there and Roy certainly wasn't going to win a second base battle with Felix.

221-222 Hal R. Smith
223-224 Bucky Dent
225-226 Bobby Bonilla
227-228 Mike Stanley
229-230 Kevin Stanfield
231-232 Lee Stange
233-234 Don Stanhouse
235-236 Fred Stanley
237-240 Mickey Stanley
241-242 Eddie Stanky
243-244 Larry Staab
245-246 Marv Staehle
247-248 Bill Stafford
249-252 Larry Stahl
253-254 George Staller
255-256 Al Stanek
257-260 Roy Staiger

[Pinetarpress]

Mike Stanton came to the big leagues with the Astros in 1975 as he pitched in 7 games for the Astros going 0-2 with a 7.27 E.R.A

He would not return to the majors until 1980 when he pitched in 51 games out of the Indians bullpen. He pitched in the big leagues thru 1985 pitching for the Mariners and closing out his big league career with 11 games for the White Sox.

He finished his career with 277 games pitched (3 starts- 2 of them for the 1975 Astros) and a record of 13-22 and a 4.61 E.R.A while saving 31 games. His best years were with the 83-84 Mariners as he pitched in 104 games and saved 15 games.

[Pinetarpress]

Dan Quisenberry was signed by the Giants in January of 1990 and pitched just 5 games for them to close out his big league career. Here he is in his Giants uniform.....