Gambo and T_Wil1 Photopack

[rlumpkin1@tampabay.rr.com]

Originally Posted by SPORTSMEM817

Made this a while back for an index card I had signed of him

Very nice Colorization photo.

[Rainmaker]

I know it's not unique, but you just don't see photos of John Olerud without his trusty batting helmet (such as his Upper Deck rookie card) every day. This was posted on Pinterest by Old Time Baseball.

[Merkle923]

New thing: Google Image Search.

[cheech411]

merkle take a shot at joe moock j Sullivan 67 mets 68 phils thanks

[Rainmaker]

Passing along announcement by Sports Collectors Daily...

Author, publisher and hobby expert Bob Lemke died of congestive heart failure Tuesday morning at a hospital near his central Pennsylvania home.

Born in Wisconsin in 1951 and a fixture in the hobby since the 1970s, Lemke was influential in Krause Publications getting into the sports card and memorabilia publishing business with SCD and other titles. Working in the company’s coin publication division, he convinced company owner Chet Krause to buy the magazine in 1980. He was a columnist, editor, publisher and vice-president during his career with Krause, which was eventually purchased by F&W Media.

An avid sports fan and collector, Lemke also played a pivotal role in the launch of Baseball Cards Magazine and later became the founding editor of the Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards, a role he maintained nearly every year until recently. He collected, organized and produced large amounts of data for thousands of sets as the huge tome became a staple in the libraries of avid vintage card collectors.

Even after his retirement from Krause, Lemke remained active as a collector, researcher and writer, eventually launching his own blog where he discussed a wide variety of subjects and showed off his custom card creations. He posted there just a week ago.

He is survived by his wife Mary Ann (Henkel) Lemke, who he married in 1973; their daughter, Crystal Gearhart; and brothers and sister Jim, Tom, Dan and Carol.

Many dealings with Bob over the years, from helping with Braves regional checklists in the 90s to buying some of his hand-crafted custom cards within the last year. His knowledge of the hobby, and of baseball history, is irreplaceable. Fortunately, he worked on an active blog with a nod towards history right up until the end his life, as mentioned above.

[rlumpkin1@tampabay.rr.com]

Are there any known photo's of Johnny Jeter in a Padres uni other than his 72 topps card? Thank You to any response.

[rlumpkin1@tampabay.rr.com]

Originally Posted by Rainmaker

Passing along announcement by Sports Collectors Daily...

Author, publisher and hobby expert Bob Lemke died of congestive heart failure Tuesday morning at a hospital near his central Pennsylvania home.

Born in Wisconsin in 1951 and a fixture in the hobby since the 1970s, Lemke was influential in Krause Publications getting into the sports card and memorabilia publishing business with SCD and other titles. Working in the company’s coin publication division, he convinced company owner Chet Krause to buy the magazine in 1980. He was a columnist, editor, publisher and vice-president during his career with Krause, which was eventually purchased by F&W Media.

An avid sports fan and collector, Lemke also played a pivotal role in the launch of Baseball Cards Magazine and later became the founding editor of the Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards, a role he maintained nearly every year until recently. He collected, organized and produced large amounts of data for thousands of sets as the huge tome became a staple in the libraries of avid vintage card collectors.

Even after his retirement from Krause, Lemke remained active as a collector, researcher and writer, eventually launching his own blog where he discussed a wide variety of subjects and showed off his custom card creations. He posted there just a week ago.

He is survived by his wife Mary Ann (Henkel) Lemke, who he married in 1973; their daughter, Crystal Gearhart; and brothers and sister Jim, Tom, Dan and Carol.

Many dealings with Bob over the years, from helping with Braves regional checklists in the 90s to buying some of his hand-crafted custom cards within the last year. His knowledge of the hobby, and of baseball history, is irreplaceable. Fortunately, he worked on an active blog with a nod towards history right up until the end his life, as mentioned above.

My Condolenses go out to the Lemke Family. Sorry for there Loss. My Prayers go out to The Lemke Family. A Great Loss to us also.

[okcochise]

Merk, was there by chance a late 60s Turk Farrell (Phillies) included with the Dexter images? Seems I only have 50s images with his first stint with the Phillies.

[SPORTSMEM817]

Never got him but had made this

[cheech411]

thanks for looking

[BklynJace]

Very sad news about Bob Lemke. A giant in the baseball-card world, tireless compiler of hard-to-find info, compendium of interesting tales and a nice guy -- I exchanged emails with him not so long ago about Steve Chilcott signatures, of all things. So sorry to hear it.

[Pinetarpress]

Originally Posted by rlumpkin1@tampabay.rr.com

Are there any known photo's of Johnny Jeter in a Padres uni other than his 72 topps card? Thank You to any response.

Jeter had 2 SD photos in the TV JB file

[Pinetarpress]

Today's TV released was very interesting to me as 2 players featured were both "can't miss" prospects in Lee Mazzilli and Brad Kommisnk

Mazzilli was a local NY kid from Brooklyn who blazed his way through the Mets system making his big league debut as a 21 year old and becoming their opening day CF in 1977 at the age of 22. He had 4 solid years before the Mets traded their hometown sweetheart to the Rangers on 4/1/82 in a trade that brought the Mets 2 very solid young starting pitchers in Ron Darling and Walt Terrell

Komminsk was the 4th overall pick by the Braves in 1979 out of HS in Ohio. He showed plus power as he climbed the ladder in the Braves system hitting 20 plus HR 5 seasons in a row (his best season was 1981 at Durham when he swatted 33 homers and drove in 104) He was a saber-metric (before his time) darling too as he took plenty of walks including getting 110 of them in that 1981 season. He was not a HUGE all or nothing power hitter either and the Braves faithful dreamed of an OF of Murphy and Komminsk to carry them through the 80's. His movie star good looks (also said of Mazzilli) made him an obvious choice to share the franchise star with Murphy.

Unfortunately, unlike Mazzilli, Komminsk arrived with a thud batting just .203 as a rookie while not showcasing the patient power hitter he had been in the minors as he struck out 77 times and walked just 29 times in 301 at bats as a rookie in 1984. 1985 did not go much better and his power was not evident as he hit just 4 HR in 300 AB to go along with a .227 .AVG, The Braves had him spend all of 1986 at AAA but he was not the same as he hit .234 with 13 HR in 465 AB. He went to Milwaukee in 1987 and, again, showed the promise he once had as a "can't miss" prospect as he crushed 32 HR and drove in 95 in the high altitude of Denver. He was given another opportunity in Cleveland in 1989 getting 198 AB and hitting 8 HR. But he bounced around after that getting big league time with San Francisco, Baltimore, and Oakland and finishing his big league career with 23 HR in 986 AB to go along with a .218 .AVG.

I know quite a few baseball people consider Komminsk to be one of the all time no doubters as a prospect...at the same time those same baseball people would consider him one of the biggest "can't miss" busts of all time

[Merkle923]

Another one of those never-worn images. The lefty reliever who managed to be on the last A's team in Kansas City (1967) and the last Washington Senators (1971) was sold by the Yankees to the Mariners after the '78 season. Went to camp in '79, was cut, never pitched again in the majors. Haven't seen him before in this garb.

Today's Topps uploads (KE): 441-442 Chuck Schilling; 443-444 Moe Thacker; 445-448 Paul Lindblad; 449-450 Brad Komminsk; 451-452 Jim Pendleton; 453-454 Lee Mazzilli; 455-456 Bob (Hawk) Taylor; 457-460 Dennis Martinez (including 1976 call-up, wearing uniform #61); 461-480 AFL/NFL.

[SPORTSMEM817]

Baseball legend Art Pennington dead at 93 | The Gazette

[rlumpkin1@tampabay.rr.com]

Originally Posted by sportsmem817

never got him but had made this

awesome on the jeter photo!!!!!! Thanks.

[SPORTSMEM817]

Thank you

Originally Posted by rlumpkin1@tampabay.rr.com

awesome on the jeter photo!!!!!! Thanks.

[Merkle923]

To answer a few Dexter requests: Turk Farrell was not in the Phillies' camp in 1967 (still in Houston) and if Dexter shot him in '68 the negative was not included. I have another Farrell which I'll post after this which should suffice.

About John Sullivan: yes on Mets, no on Phillies. Coming up.

About Joe Moock: presto.

[Pinetarpress]

This was a TV release over the holidays that stumped quite a few of us....I went thru my minor league card collection for the Giants but missed this one. In the end, this wasn't a career minor leaguer but instead was a player who received cups of coffee in 1981, 82, and 83 with the big club. *I believe we had a different name down for him before it was corrected to the correct name of Jeff Ransom (I mislabeled the photo in my file and can't recall the player we thought this was)

Ransom was the Giants 5th round draft pick out of Berkley HS in 1978. In 1979, The catcher was already in AA ball as a 19 year old at Shreveport hitting .276 in 145 at bats. In 1980 he was Shreveport's main catcher batting .264 in 394 AB. He was not showing much as a power hitter as he failed to hit a single HR.

Jeff began the 1981 season with the AAA club Phoenix Giants...where, as a 21 year old, he .232 in 358 AB with 3 HR. He also received his 1st big league call up when he debuted on September 5th. He went 4-16 in 5 games getting his 1st big league hit with a single off of the Padres Juan Echelberger on October 3rd. He made the Giants out of Spring Training in 1982 and was with the big league club thru May going 7-44 with 3 RBI. He spent the season in AA batting .235.

He was back in AAA Phoenix in 1983 and received his last big league look in September going 4-20 and hitting his first and only big league HR in Cincinnati off of Bruce Berenyi. He spent 1984 in the Orioles system...1985 in the Braves system, 1987 in the Tigers org, and he closed out his career with 14 games for the Dodgers AAA club in 1988. He was out of baseball before his 28th birthday.

[Merkle923]

Here's Sullivan in his one-year stint as a Jerry Grote back-up in New York. I've never seen a color shot of him with his 1968 team (the Phils) only a team-issued black-and-white head shot.