Old Baseball Photo Treasure Trove.....

[Cooleyvol]

I just found (you guys may have known of this) the most exciting photo site of early 20th century player photos while doing some research on Addie Joss at baseballlibrary.

I noticed that Joss' photo was colorized with a link to the guy who had colored it. I went to his site to discover that he has done THOUSANDS of photos of baseball players and offers them in downloads of 20 photos each.

He even lists each player and tells you which download they are in.

The photos are already sized to include in OOTP. Just rename them.

Now I know TigerFan has completed all the photo packs, but I thought this was very neat!

There are some examples of his work here:

http://www.portraitmatt.50megs.com/Photos.html

here is the page with the downloads listed:

http://www.portraitmatt.50megs.com/Downloads.html

I am supplementing TF's facepacks with these colored versions for Baseball Union and wanted to let you guys know about these.

If its old news, disregard.

[sporr]

I have seen a link to this site on the board in the past, but it's such revolutionary work, that I don't think anyone will mind being reminded of it.

[Treches]

Beautiful work. I think someone posted that link before, but it certainly deserves to be bumped.

[Cooleyvol]

I'm downloading them all and burning them to CD right now!!

This is great stuff to have, if not for OOTP use, for purely historical reference.

[Eugene Church]

Splendid work.

Cooleyvol, Thanks for letting us know about it.

[Hammer755]

Yeah, these are sharp. Stacy's been using them in the BoS for quite some time.

Cobb
Shoeless Joe
Speaker
The Babe
The Big Train

[IatricSB]

Matt did some fine work on these. I ended up writing a program that would rename the files to the names used in the Lahman database so they could be "seen" by OOTP. It saved me a ton of time.

This reminds me... I forgot to send Matt a check for his hard work. Better get on that....

[Cooleyvol]

Originally posted by IatricSB
Matt did some fine work on these. I ended up writing a program that would rename the files to the names used in the Lahman database so they could be "seen" by OOTP. It saved me a ton of time.

This reminds me... I forgot to send Matt a check for his hard work. Better get on that....

Stacy, does that program also change them to bmp files?

If so, would there be any way for me to get ahold of it. Changing the names and formats was going to be the big work in this.

Also, did you just put them all in the photos folder and not worry about when each player came into the league?


Thanks.

[IatricSB]

I used BatchThumbs to mass convert all the file types. Then I used my program to change the naming conventions to one that is OOTP friendly. I'll find the program if you'd like to use it.

As for how I use the pictures, I put them all into the photo subdirectory. Then every year that I edit the rookies, I click enable photos for each player I edit. If the picture is there, great... if not, I click it back to disable photo.

[spleen1015]

Stacy, how many of the files have you done already?

Would it be too much trouble to zip them up and make them available for download?

[IatricSB]

Originally posted by spleen1015
Stacy, how many of the files have you done already?

Would it be too much trouble to zip them up and make them available for download?

I think I have 1200 of them done. I could have the rest done in less than an hour. I've been wanting to post them for everyone to download, but wanted to get permission from Matt first and I've never got around to asking yet.

[Cooleyvol]

there's 1300 total at the present time.

[IatricSB]

I've had trouble downloading four of the zip files:

841-860
981-1000
1001-1020
1181-1200

I get an error message that says "Access Denied"

[UD411Flyer]

It's sad looking at those pictures and knowing we cant get the same type of tough players in the majors these days. Ones that aren't willing to work their tails off like these UNDERPAID players were.

These pictures are great, let us know how it goes with all that Cooleyvol.


edit-I'm downloading all of them myself also, and I was unable to get 3 of them. Broken link apparently.

21-40, 841-860, 981-1000

If anyone can help it would be appreciated.

[Carlton]

Some of them are in my 1901 league (in the Feedback forum)...I like black and white myself, but in my league you'll see the pics are the same just not colorized.

[UD411Flyer]

Originally posted by IatricSB
I've had trouble downloading four of the zip files:

841-860
981-1000
1001-1020
1181-1200

I get an error message that says "Access Denied"

I got broken Links for 3(21-40,841-860,981-1000)

Mark if you have these and could help out, or anyone else. We both would appreciate that.

These are great!

[Cooleyvol]

I got 21-40 for sure.

I've only made it to 400 thusfar.........I'm getting a few every night.

[Cooleyvol]

Originally posted by IatricSB
I've had trouble downloading four of the zip files:

841-860
981-1000
1001-1020
1181-1200

I get an error message that says "Access Denied"

I get the same error on the first two, but I get downloads on the last two.

[UD411Flyer]

I've got them all unzipped into 1 folder if someone would want a complete file...it of course would be missing the files I don't have.

Cooley--could you possibly send me via email or whatever 21-40?

[IatricSB]

Originally posted by UD411Flyer
I've got them all unzipped into 1 folder if someone would want a complete file...it of course would be missing the files I don't have.

Cooley--could you possibly send me via email or whatever 21-40?

I think it would be best if you didn't sent the photos to others. I've been talking with Matt (who did the pictures) and he prefers to have people come to his site to download the photos. I don't think he would mine (IMO) if you were to get the "missing" zip files from someone else, but I don't think he would want all photos being swapped. If you do still want to send them to someone, respect the creators opinions by asking permission first (whether its all or just a select few).

On a related note, Matt and I are working on a solution to get all the files in a "OOTP friendly" naming convention. Stay tuned!