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Old 09-10-2013, 02:39 PM   #18593
Amazin69
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Thank you, Merkle!

It's quite wonderful what you are sharing with us. I was nearly floored to see the Jesse Jefferson/1980 Pirates pic. (Although it turns out you hardly needed to "search" for that one, given that you took it yourself.)

Loved the Gary Kolb/Mets picture. You know, I've always felt that Kolb was a pretty good-looking guy…but everyone looks better in a Mets uniform. (Even if they do post a sad .414 OPS as a Met.)

OTOH, that 1961 Gene Green/Senators picture really shows that Green packed on the pounds over the previous few seasons; he was much trimmer in the 1958 Cardinals picture that was used as the basis for the photoshopped Nats pic that had been posted here. I guess he reacted differently to Solly Hemus's tenure as Cardinals manager than Jim Brosnan did…Brosnan wrote a book, and Green ordered the entire menu. Tsk, tsk.

I notice that my prior list was inaccurate; we do have B&W for Al Schmelz (1967 Mets) and Butch Metzger (1978). In fact, I already had the Metzger, myself. But we can still use any color pictures you might have. (Bearman14 posted a color Schmelz along with the B&W he dug up, but it's really rough.)

And thanks for clearing up the Rocky Colavito/Auravision issue: I'd seen the image posted before, but without the grooves and lettering, it was just a very florid Colavito against a blue backdrop, and I couldn't be sure it wasn't a created image of some sort. Now at least I know it's contemporaneous and photograph-based. Still, I'm also grateful to Braves70 for the more-realistic Topps training camp picture; it's just a pity that Rock is at such a severe profile angle in that one. Oh, well.

A few more for whom I've discovered we only have very poor B&W shots:

Al Yates, 1970 Brewers*
Jack Lind, 1974-1975 Brewers
Champ Summers, 1974 A's

(*There was a pretty nice Yates creation [made from a 1971 minor-league picture] posted, but as always, I prefer reality.)

Going back a bit farther:

Cal Browning, 1959 Cardinals (only minors and a rough team picture, both B&W, that I know of)
Rupe Toppin, 1962 Athletics (only minors, to my knowledge)

And finally,

Wenty Ford, 1973 Braves (SABR has a nice B&W on his biography page, but I can't tell if that's edited; any color would be appreciated).

Again, thanks for all your wonderful work.
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