Gambo and T_Wil1 Photopack

[Merkle923]

I told you there was a Herbel.

The "official" Brace Family catalogue, which I think when printed in two column 8-point font ran to 40 or 50 pages, insists this doesn't exist.

(Adding: I forgot George got Herbel with the Padres, same season, basically in the same spot)

[Merkle923]

This is NOT a Brace but it was in the big collection.

It's a Greg Tucker. All of these shots from 1970-73 next to the third base dugout at Yankee Stadium were done by him. He sold them in ads in The Trader Speaks, and many wound up in the 1975 SSPC 42-card set and even a few in the 1976 SSPC 630-card set.

And this is a white whale for at least one poster here. Stan Williams, in a Red Sox uni, in color, as a player and not a coach, from his three-game stint with Boston in 1972. The Sox signed him to a minor league deal in June, switched from flannel home uniforms to double knits in June, brought up Williams in late July, pitched him in New York on July 29, released him on August 4, and somewhere in that last week switched from the road flannels to the road double knits.

And thus, Stan Williams in an actual 1972 Red Sox uni:

[DeweyintheHall]

Outstanding! Thanks!

[Merkle923]

Not much of a career, 85 games (though he was 10th in the A.L. in appearances in 1972), never got his own card. But I recall we thought this name was as cool as it got, and after all he was traded for a 30-game winner.

(This also might as well be a demonstration for a photo identification hack I use a LOT. Ears, nose, chin - they're all useful in their way. But body language and "pose attitude" are often just as decisive)

[Merkle923]

Highly regarded, largely underachieving, up-and-down starter and reliever in the '60s. He was Boston's second starter in 1964, opening 5-1 and ending 9-13. In the minors the next year, sold to the Astros, sold to the White Sox, and on April 25, 1967, sold conditionally to the Mets. Lamabe pitched passably for what amounted to his hometown team, but in four appearances against the Cardinals he struck out 11 men and allowed only 14 baserunners in 14 innings.

So in July, after Bob Gibson took a line drive that broke a bone in his leg, the first-place Cardinals got him from the last-place Mets. He went 3-4 with 4 saves for them plus a shutout - against the Mets. He made two decent appearances in the World Series and Red Schoendienst brought him in to Game 6, tied 4-4 in the 7th, with the Cardinals leading the Series 3 games to 2. He gave up the first two of Boston's six hits that inning and by the time it was over the Impossible Dream Red Sox would win the game 8-4 and set up their ultimate disappointment in losing game seven to Gibson the next day (proving the adage of my old Boston colleague Clark Booth: "If the Red Sox win today, it's only because losing tomorrow will hurt more."

In any event, Lamabe got a World Series ring and of course another trade, the next spring, for a final season with the Cubs. And Brace got him in each uni.

(Added: there's a second Lamabe image, a little blurry, needed a little AI help).

[tnfoto]

Originally Posted by Merkle923

Following this site's relationship with, and rules about, George Brace photographs, is at best a roller-coaster. But if I remember correctly their ownership is in flux and nobody's enforcing any copyright. If otherwise, I'll be happy to remove these next few startling finds.

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Originally Posted by Merkle923

I told you there was a Herbel.

The "official" Brace Family catalogue, which I think when printed in two column 8-point font ran to 40 or 50 pages, insists this doesn't exist.

(Adding: I forgot George got Herbel with the Padres, same season, basically in the same spot)

Originally Posted by Merkle923

This is NOT a Brace but it was in the big collection.

It's a Greg Tucker. All of these shots from 1970-73 next to the third base dugout at Yankee Stadium were done by him. He sold them in ads in The Trader Speaks, and many wound up in the 1975 SSPC 42-card set and even a few in the 1976 SSPC 630-card set.

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Originally Posted by Merkle923

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(This also might as well be a demonstration for a photo identification hack I use a LOT. Ears, nose, chin - they're all useful in their way. But body language and "pose attitude" are often just as decisive)

Originally Posted by Merkle923

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Lamabe pitched passably for what amounted to his hometown team, but in four appearances against the Cardinals he struck out 11 men and allowed only 14 baserunners in 14 innings.

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And Brace got him in each uni.

Thanks for all of these great finds!

As you mentioned in the first post of this fantastic (and, hopefully, continuing) series, over the years we have exercised caution with large-scale postings from the Brace collection, especially while the family was in a legal battle with the original purchase of the library. With that delicate situation now in the past, I am comfortable with sharing Burke/Brace images that are of interest to the community.

[Merkle923]

Ok! Let's roll 'em out. There are probably 50-100 unusual (although not unique and many cases previously seen) images in this big pile of stuff.

Incidentally, after some research on those '65 "CA" Angels caps, it certainly looks like there was ONE such cap, a prototype, and either Joe Koppe posed for J.D. McCarthy as a gag wearing it, or he was somehow given it. No indication anybody wore them during games. Now those '67 white A's and Senators caps are a different story all together!

[Merkle923]

Signed by the Phillies in 1957, by 1963 so not in their plans that they had loaned him to Hawaii of the PCL. Then on June 29 the Phils sold the veteran Jim Lemon to the White Sox and needed somebody in a hurry, and that was Harrington.

He didn't get into a game until July 10. Roy Sievers led off the 8th inning with a single and Gene Mauch sent Harrington in to pinch-run. He got as far as second, the inning ended, Frank Torre replaced both him and Sievers (at first base) - and that was it.

In a bizarre twist, three days later the Phils sent Harrington to their PCL farm in Little Rock to make room for Cal Emery, who himself would get into just 16 big league games (15 as a pinch-hitter) for the '63 Phils. George Brace got at least one shot of Emery, too, as you'll see.

Harrington played in the minors through 1966.

[Merkle923]

Played for 15 minor league seasons, managed for nine more, and was a coach for Jim Fregosi with the White Sox in 1988.

(Added: sure enough, there was a second Emery in the collection). This is a very nice portrait which the official Brace inventory said did not exist.

[rlumpkin1@tampabay.rr.com]

Not a great photo. A news paper.clipping I kept of John Rocker as a Devil Rays. Very brief

[rlumpkin1@tampabay.rr.com]

.Do not know if He is a UIN. If so here you go

[Merkle923]

Onetime top Phillies prospect with speed and power, eked out a brief career as a utility man with the '65 Phils, '67 Giants, '70 Royals and then two years in Japan.

Giants took him in the Rule V after the 1966 season and played him just 18 times (only twice as a starting outfielder) before returning him to Philly on June 22. I'd seen the "action" shot before but not what really is a nice batting pose

[Merkle923]

Dealt from the Giants to Milwaukee just before Spring Training 1965, then from the Braves to the Pirates on June 15, 1966, thus tough to find in Milwaukee, Atlanta or Pittsburgh uniforms.

[Merkle923]

Went from the Mets to the Pirates in June, 1967, and released in spring training the next year. Not seen often in his Pittsburgh garb. His great-nephew Jordan played for Pittsburgh in 2017 and 2018.

Added: sure enough, there was a second shot of Luplow in the Brace collection. I should note alone among these 1967 photographic orphans, Topps did get Luplow with the Pirates - they just never had any use for it.

[Merkle923]

Obscure Braves' righty who shared a Topps rookie card with the equally obscure Herb Hippauf but is seldom seen on his own.

Made the National Wrestling Field and once struck out the first 26 batters in a All-American Amateur tournament no-hitter.

[Patsy Tebeau]

Found this in the Buffalo Voice, January 1, 1898

[mmayes]

Originally Posted by Merkle923

This is NOT a Brace but it was in the big collection.

It's a Greg Tucker. All of these shots from 1970-73 next to the third base dugout at Yankee Stadium were done by him. He sold them in ads in The Trader Speaks, and many wound up in the 1975 SSPC 42-card set and even a few in the 1976 SSPC 630-card set.

And this is a white whale for at least one poster here. Stan Williams, in a Red Sox uni, in color, as a player and not a coach, from his three-game stint with Boston in 1972. The Sox signed him to a minor league deal in June, switched from flannel home uniforms to double knits in June, brought up Williams in late July, pitched him in New York on July 29, released him on August 4, and somewhere in that last week switched from the road flannels to the road double knits.

And thus, Stan Williams in an actual 1972 Red Sox uni:

Thank you for the photos. This allows me to update the Williams card in the 1972 Topps Traded set I've put together of all players who played in 1972. I really appreciate your invaluable contributions here.

[Patsy Tebeau]

with the Columbus Senators, 1902

[Patsy Tebeau]

A view of Bonner with a mustache, from the 1902 Cleveland Plain Dealer Insert Portraits

[UKBaseballfan]

Here is a version upgrade in respect of the previous posting, courtesy of RMY auctions..