great portraits of baseball players

and to Lasorda's right, Red Schoendienst, still around at 94.

That's Walter Alston!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C9ytPl1UAAAZQzk.jpg

https://usatftw.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/hunter-pence.jpg?w=1000&h=600&crop=1

https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/18581805_1815788792071489_5524496500300713293_n.jpg?oh=8d8d450e0fb51cfd6c9e273d449b73ed&oe=59A7CE0D

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/1898_Cleveland_Spiders.jpg

the 1898 cleveland spiders

dudes

https://twitchy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/astros_flag.jpg

https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/CIswXriLkCsfn8094_7FeeDIExA=/0x0:3703x2464/1200x0/filters:focal%280x0:3703x2464%29/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/12550273/1020432186.jpg.jpg

you're the best manager out there, imo!
that may be true but YOU'RE the best person in baseball, period, and it's not just me who says that!

not really a portrait or a player, but i feel like it would make good statuary

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DxyJYRKVsAAwfmS.jpg

On June 6, 1944, Lawrence P. Berra served his country as an 18-year-old gunner for the U.S. Navy, manning a rocket-boat during the Allied invasion of Normandy. #DDay75thAnniversary pic.twitter.com/MWuEhJIJjS

— Yogi Berra Museum (@Yogi_Museum) June 6, 2019

For lack of a better thread:

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/27425987/guy-ball-crotch-story-funniest-baseball-card-ever-made

I laughed way too hard while reading this.

That is a beautiful story. That is life in one article.

yes i read that this morning and lol'd at the crazy glue stuff and his wife's reaction

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVAjFsAUYAQ2-bT?format=jpg&name=large

Congrats to @TheCUTCH22 for securing what may be the coolest baseball card ever #Phillies @Topps pic.twitter.com/KToJ1sthwT

— Dick Allen (@DickAllen_15) June 26, 2020

I must say this is my All Time Favorite card. https://t.co/PyCHXw52p3

— andrew mccutchen (@TheCUTCH22) June 26, 2020

cutch is the best

EKERSLY1.BMF pic.twitter.com/dKd8RfoH7W

— Corel Gallery 1994 (@Clipart1994bot) November 20, 2020

haha sweet!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Evl27DSUcAA8L7t?format=jpg&name=large

man.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FCriKJPWEAc0_vR?format=jpg&name=medium

billy 'bad wheels' buckner and... who?

eastern tennessee's own phil 'scrap iron' garner

ahh of course!

i still love that photo of neikro and torre both reduced to bashful little boys by the sheer fabulousness of olivia newton-john

the brows/eyes/moustache kinda make buckner look like a literal muppet!

close enough

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EU7Sw_YVAAI88Gu.jpg

I should know...Siouxsie Sioux? Doesn't really make sense.

i believe that's a madonna

indeed. photo by the late mick rock

Yikes, how did I miss that...

twitter thread of some:

What’s the coolest picture ever of a baseball player? My nominations: pic.twitter.com/PQzndOaxxk

— Ben Porter (@Ben13Porter) December 16, 2021

the more i know about ted williams, the more i'm like fuck ted williams

Magazine cover--can't find the original photo--but this would be high on my own list:

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/muppet/images/9/99/Sportsillustrated1977.JPG/revision/latest?cb=20181030143543

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/muppet/images/9/99/Sportsillustrated1977.JPG/revision/latest?cb=20181030143543

(Fidyrich/Big Bird cover)

the more i know about ted williams, the more i'm like fuck ted williams

^ this tbh

Why do you guys say that? One thing I know about him is this.

https://www.mlb.com/news/ted-williams-hall-of-fame-speech-honored-negro-league-players

(I guess his speech is marginally undermined by his words about Yawkey, but he was hardly alone there.)

i guess it's just recency bias (as in, i recently learned about it), but he seems to have really gone out of his way to fuck gil hodges over by refusing to let roy campanella (one of the HOF voters that year for the veteran's committee, I think) vote via phone, even though campanella was very ill and died a couple months later. campanella would have been the 12th and clinching vote.

Been reading up--didn't know that. I agree with him that Hodges was a weak candidate, but that does seem petty (not to mention not letting someone in a wheelchair vote by phone). Must be some decades-long grudge.

Rube Marquard

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Rube_Marquard_by_Bain%2C_1912.jpg

How much would you give for one of those cardigans.

when did the name "Rube" die out?

intrigued by the evolutionary process of ears

andrew siciliano is certainly a throwback

rube was a nickname for a country bumpkin but marquard was a city boy, and people called him that because he reminded them of another lefty pitcher, rube waddell

this thread is cool but don't sleep on this
rolling old-tyme baseball photograph thread

ah thanks!

Congrats to Sean Doolittle on hitting 10 years of Major League service today! pic.twitter.com/ICKm6scJyj

— Kyle Brostowitz (@KyleBrostowitz) May 26, 2022