Major League Baseball Coaches

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St. Louis Cardinals.

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Eppard replaced Mickey Hatcher as Angels batting coach this week.

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Rowson was named interim hitting coach after the Cubs fired Rudy Jaramillo.

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here is a better (IMO) rowson from the cubs 2012 media guide

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Jones assumed the Padres bullpen coach's role formerly held by the late Darrel Akerfelds.

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Here are a couple of other options on Jimmy Jones, headshot from this year's media guide and another pic from the padres media-only site.

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Bo McLaughlin Rockies

Named co-pitching coach after Bob Apodaca asked for reassignment.

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Ty Van Burkleo and Dan Radison, interim hitting and first base coach, respectively.

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Oceak was Danny Murtagh's 3B coach with the Pirates, from 1958-1964 and again in 1970-1971. (He also coached for Cincinnati in 1965, and under Bill Virdon with the Pirates in 1972.) Several B&W images were posted upthread (post 175), but here's a color picture from the Topps archive:



Of course, like many a Topps picture, the color is hideously bad. But I've gotten semi-decent at digital image correction; here's my attempt, with a cut down to 180x270:



Still a touch florid for my tastes (it's a problem I tend to have with images of redheads), but hopefully acceptable.

Since there's a uniform number on the front, that means this picture is from 1962-1964 (Bucs added the front number in '62) or, just possibly, 1970 (they wore the old unis in spring training and at Forbes Field for the first three months, as I understand it, and then switched to the doubleknits when they moved into Three Rivers on July 16th).

I wonder how Oceak's name is pronounced: is it "o-SHAK" (like "ocean") or "o-SEEK" or "o-SEE-ak"? Does anybody remember?

ETA:

Here's another image of Oceak, apparently misfiled a little later in the file. I think I did the color a little better on this one:

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Originally Posted by Amazin69

...Of course, like many a Topps picture, the color is hideously bad...

Here a couple of color-corrected versions:

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Wow, that's a vast improvement on my "work"! Did you do that, or had someone else already taken care of it, and I just didn't see those versions before? Or is there a site that auto-corrects, the way shrinkpictures.com does re-sizing?

If you did that, what software did you use? Just curious.

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Originally Posted by Amazin69

Wow, that's a vast improvement on my "work"! Did you do that, or had someone else already taken care of it, and I just didn't see those versions before? Or is there a site that auto-corrects, the way shrinkpictures.com does re-sizing?

If you did that, what software did you use? Just curious.

I did the adjustment myself, using Paint.NET.

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Color image of Roy in his only coaching stint, to (possibly) replace the B/W in the Coaches' Pack. I've also included a face edit (to eliminate the watermark) and 180x270 and 90x135 versions of that.

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Brecheen was a player-coach for the Browns in 1953, and the Orioles' first pitching coach, serving until 1967. These pictures appear to be from 1964-1966 (1964-65 home uniform, possibly still worn at Spring Training in '66) and are an improvement on the baseball card image of Brecheen in the Coaches' Pack.

Well, except for the hideously-bad color in the second picture, of course. The final image is my attempt to improve it, but I'm sure others could improve on my improvements.

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Most of the images I've seen of Gleeson's one year as a Yankees coach, in 1964 (Gleeson spent most of his post-playing career as a minor league manager or a scout, not coaching) are in black and white, including the one in the Coaches' Pack. Certainly, I haven't seen any color images as nice as these two from the Topps archive:



By the way, guess how old Gleeson is here? 80? 70? Nope, 52. Fifty-TWO. Jeez, I hope my face doesn't look like that in three years…

Oh, and here's Gleeson's only other big-league coaching role, with the 1957 Athletics:



He wasn't looking so great at 45, either. (Sorry, Jim.)

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Originally Posted by Amazin69

...hideously-bad color in the second picture...

Here's a less-hideous version.

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(Now that I look at it, in that picture of Gleeson with the 1957 Athletics, he's wearing a 1960 cap. [The first time the Athletics ever wore anything to acknowledge a home city; it was always either the big "A" or "Athletics" and the word "Philadelphia" was never on any uniform.] Was Gleeson a roving instructor in 1960, and that's a Spring Training pic? Is it an anachronistic PhotoShop job? Odd.)

Anyways…we have Vernon as a Yankee coach upthread, and as an Expo in the Coaches' Pack, but here is one of his earlier gigs, with the 1965 Cardinals:

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Originally Posted by Amazin69

(Now that I look at it, in that picture of Gleeson with the 1957 Athletics, he's wearing a 1960 cap. [The first time the Athletics ever wore anything to acknowledge a home city; it was always either the big "A" or "Athletics" and the word "Philadelphia" was never on any uniform.] Was Gleeson a roving instructor in 1960, and that's a Spring Training pic? Is it an anachronistic PhotoShop job? Odd.)

It is most likely from spring training 1961. Gleeson lived in KC, and after being a Yankees minor league manager in 1959 and 1960, he had a few "years off" before joining the Yankees coaching staff.

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(Thanks for the thoughts about Gleeson. Now back to the other side of Missouri.)

Thomas finished his playing career in Japan in 1969, spent 1970-1971 as a minor league manager in the Cardinals' chain, and then was a coach for one season only before opting for a front office career. We've got him in the Coaches' Pack, but that's in black & white; here's a color image, with 180x270 and 90x135 cutdowns, as well:

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1986 Braves image, replacing the Pirates trainer image in the coaches pack.