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Originally Posted by Ctrane
Just wondering why you requested this. Stallard never played for the Royals.
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I would certainly echo the merits of this query and somebody spending time on such a request when there a plethora of other Major Leaguers for whom we do not have colorized images.
I would also query the request on two other grounds.
Firstly one could quite clearly make a distinction of baseball eras into two sections in terms of color, an era where color image reproduction was generally unavailable and a second era when it was. To my mind it is far more justifiable to make requests to colorize images from the first era as we do not have already a host of color images in specific uniforms from that first era unlike the second.
Secondly in an era where the truth is under assault from what is real and what is fake I would like to make the point that a colorization of a real image to make it come to life in the true color of that team's uniform should take priority over an image that has been photo shopped. I can see a case being made to photo shop an image from a more distant time period where an abundance of research has failed to unveil a true image but often I have seen requests for images to be photo shopped when if the requester took the time to undertake some research they would readily find a 'true and real' image that could be utilised.