Gambo and T_Wil1 Photopack

[cinemaodyssey]

I found one of my most wanted missing players in Shetzline, who played in 73 games for the 1882 Baltimore team. He played for years in the minors but no image had surfaced: until now. He was pictured in the quite useful 1885 Trenton team photo which was published in the 7/6/1930 edition of the Trenton Times.

[cinemaodyssey]

Another missing player was featured in the 1885 Trenton team photograph, pitcher John Murphy. He played briefly in the 1884 Union Association for Altoona and Wilmington. This was printed in the 7/6/1930 edition of the Trenton Times.

[cinemaodyssey]

I found Quinton pictured with as a member of the 1884 Trenton team. It was featured in the 12/7/1930 edition of the Trenton Times.

[Cusick]

A trifecta of missing players! Great find, cinemaodyssey.

[Merkle923]

Back to the Brace bag and some seldom-seen shots of "Dr. Strangelove" during the rapid unscheduled disassembly of a career that saw him hit a startling 66 homers at Lincoln of the Western League in 1956, lead a World Championship team in homers in his third big league season, get MVP votes in three different seasons...and then come apart at the seams.

Dealt to the Red Sox for 1963, the Phillies for 1965, the Mets for 1966, released to the Dodgers in 1966, released by the Dodgers in 1967, to Japan for two seasons, back to get just eight hits in two months with the '69 Angels (I actually saw him play for them at Yankee Stadium when I was 10) and when released again, a fruitless audition for the Giants with their PCL farm in Phoenix.

What's puzzling is that George Brace got Stuart with all of his clubs through '66 (Topps even got him, at Dodger Stadium, and then again at Vero Beach before his controversial release during Spring Training '67) - but neither he nor anybody else got him in color with the Angels, even though California played a two-game series at Comiskey in April (he started one of the games).

To my knowledge there is no color of Stuart with the Angels and I've seen only two black and white shots, one of which is a not very good copy of a team publicity photo I previously posted here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...ostcount=25285

Still, a couple of nice Dodger shots, and he did pinch-hit in the World Series for them.

[Merkle923]

I forgot! I actually found the actual '69 Angels' publicity shot and cleaned it up a little. Still, nothing in color.

[Merkle923]

No, this isn't Harry Chiti forcing a smile at the 60-year old joke about him: Who was the only "Player To Be Named Later" in a trade who turned out to be his own "Player To Be Named Later"?

It's sorta true. The Mets bought him from Cleveland on April 26, 1962, got (as he noted bitterly afterwards) only 43 at bats for New York, and was assigned to the Cleveland farm at Jacksonville on June 15, 1962. As the Mets' writer of The Hackensack Record, John Ryan, put it: "This completed an earlier deal with Cleveland for guess who? Harry Chiti."

They returned him. There was no "Player To Be Named Later" in the original transaction.

A more bizarre truth about the Mets in '62 that gets buried behind the Chiti exaggeration, is that the Mets inexplicably used seven different catchers in 1962. They began with two: Joe Ginsberg and Hobie Landrith. Ginsberg was released on May 1 and Landith, who had been their first choice in the expansion draft, was sent to Baltimore as an actual PTBNL for Marv Throneberry on June 7. They traded for Sammy Taylor on April 26, Chiti, and Joe Pignatano on July 13. They also kept bringing up and sending back Chris Cannizzaro and Choo Choo Coleman from/to the International League. The season was barely over when they bought Norm Sherry from the Dodgers, and on July 1, 1963, traded for Jesse Gonder.

237 games into their history and the Mets had used nine different catchers. That the Mets were all kinds of different disasters on the field through 1967 is well documented. That their front office under George Weiss (and Casey Stengel) had no idea what it was doing, and no familiarity with the National League personnel, is less recognized.

Anyway, Harry actually did have the last laugh. In 2023 the Mets' bullpen coach was... his son Dom.

[BklynJace]

Great shot of Chiti -- thanks so much Merk!

Figure his Topps photo will never see the light of day given current business realities, but this portrait is amazing. Amazin' even.

[Patsy Tebeau]

Great find with the 3 missing players!

[72A'sDolphins]

Is there any color picts of Dean Chance with A’s?