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07-06-2021, 09:59 PM
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There isn't much on John Deering but I will let you know that typing "John Deering" into Wikipedia gives you three choices of men. Baseball, Murderer or Politician. The three true outcomes of Fate... Here's John colorized...
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07-06-2021, 10:18 PM
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Here's a nice quote about War Sanders... " 'War' Sanders, of Omaha, is pitching the best ball of his career right now and it is seldom, indeed, that opposing teams garner more than five or six hits off his delivery." - Sporting Life, August 15, 1908
The bad part is he's in Omaha... Anyway, here's War Sanders colorized... |
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07-06-2021, 10:23 PM
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07-06-2021, 10:25 PM
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07-06-2021, 11:10 PM
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Bert Daly was an American Major League Baseball infielder who played for the Philadelphia Athletics (10 G .190/.227/.381) during the 1903 season while he was in medical school. He worked as a physician which became his entry point into politics and ended up serving five terms as mayor of his hometown of Bayonne, New Jersey.
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07-07-2021, 09:30 AM
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The year before they took Bob Cummings, San Francisco's #1 draft pick was Craig Landis, the son of Jim Landis, the 1950s-1960s outfielder.
You may recall that Landis was outstanding defensively and had high OBPs, but lacked power. So as the 1960s game devolved into the sort of "we can't do sequential offense, let's just hope somebody hits a homer and let the pitchers handle the rest" borefest that we're currently afflicted by, Landis found his skills less and less valued. Despite placing 7th in the 1959 AL MVP race for leading the "Go-Go" Sox to the pennant, he was unsuccessful in trying to get a $5000 raise out of Chicago management. Craig fared little better. Sure, that .381 OBP at AAA Phoenix in 1980 looked nice, but since it was higher than his .SLG, the Giants didn't think he fit into their 3B/OF plans and dumped him on the Braves, where he sank into mediocrity. Fortunately, Craig rebounded after baseball. Going to Stanford on a football scholarship, he earned a business degree and went into sports management. And he's landed a pretty big fish: Craig is the agent for Mike Trout. Nowadays his commission$ (Trout makes $34,450,000 a year; that's about $1.35 million for Craig) dwarf that $5K the Sox cheesed Jim out of, back when. |
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07-07-2021, 10:15 AM
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07-07-2021, 10:32 AM
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Simon Nicholls was described in the press as a farmer, modest and good-natured with a smile for everybody. He is best known as a utility infielder for Mack's A's. Tragically, he passed from typhoid fever at age 28, father at his bedside, too weak to see his newly born son. Here's hoping his in-game fortunes are better.
Presenting a revised facegen for the then-Captain of the minor league Baltimore Orioles, Simon Nicholls... |
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07-07-2021, 10:37 AM
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EDIT He has had 41 AB in the past two seasons for the Pirates, hitting .293 with 1 rabbi. Not sure why no more, but here's hoping. Stories like his are the essence of the Footnote League. SIMON NICHOLLS Last edited by luckymann; 07-07-2021 at 10:41 AM. |
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07-07-2021, 11:03 AM
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Ed Fisher appeared in one game for the Detroit Tigers near the end of the 1902 season. On September 5, 1902, Fisher pitched effectively in the last four innings of a 15–1 home loss against the Baltimore Orioles.
In game, we call this reliever role "Avoid High Leverage"... Not much to work with with regard to the image... |
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07-07-2021, 01:26 PM
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"'Frank Bowerman is the gamest guy who ever put on a uniform,' remarked George Gibson, former catcher and manager of Pittsburgh. Bowerman was once hit on the temple and knocked out and taken to the hospital. Everyone thought he was dead. Somehow, he turned up the next day ready to play. Before another game, machinery fell on his chest with a crushing effect. Yet after a few moments, Bowerman recovered enough to get to the ball park and catch another game." - The Sporting News, obituary for Frank, December 8, 1948
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07-07-2021, 02:26 PM
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From bRef's Bullpen wiki: Joe Stanley broke in as a pitcher but got most of his playing time as an outfielder. Stanley was a major leaguer at age 16 with the Washington Senators for one game in 1897. Although Stanley broke into the majors in 1897, he was still alive in 1966 when Nolan Ryan broke into the majors. Stanley died in Detroit, MI in 1967, a few months after John Smoltz was born there in the same year.
I'm a bit concerned about editorial QA/QC in the Bullpen... but then again when people ask me about events in the 60's, I too just answer by stating the year it happened relative to Nolan Ryan's birthdate... Who doesn't?  On the facegen, my in-game one was awful, so I started anew... Last edited by LansdowneSt; 07-07-2021 at 11:56 PM. |
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07-07-2021, 02:49 PM
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Ed Wheeler as described in bRef's Bullpen wiki:
"Ed Wheeler was a bit of a puzzle. He played on the Brooklyn Superbas for all or most of the 1902 season, but hit only .125 with no extra base hits. The team as a whole hit .256, and Willie Keeler hit .333. Defensively, he made 19 errors in 26 games in the infield. Still, Hall of Fame manager Ned Hanlon, who had already won five pennants by that time, must have seen something in him to keep him for the season. Wheeler was one year older than teammate Jimmy Sheckard." For consistency, I feel they now should have told me how old Ed was relative to Nolan Ryan's birthday... Why switch to measuring time relative to Jimmy Sheckard? I'll assume it's a metric thing ;P Anyway, here's the improved Ed Wheeler... Last edited by LansdowneSt; 07-07-2021 at 02:55 PM. |
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07-07-2021, 11:31 PM
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Well, they know we know how old Jimmy Sheckard is, since being legally "Samuel James Tilden Sheckard", he was obviously born right after a certain Presidential election. But even so.
Wayne Pechek was only a lowly 25th-round draft pick (U of Oklahoma), so he could hardly expect better treatment than former #1 Craig Landis. And we've seen that "great OBP but no power" gets you nowhere with this era's Giants. But still. When you get promoted to AAA Phoenix and have the best month of your career (.337 BA) it seems as though you should expect something better than a return ticket to Shreveport. I grant you, Pechek hit a whopping TWO home runs in his entire pro career, but still. Haven't the G-Men grasped that it helps to have people on base when the big bombers do their thing? (Yes, angles and shadows and glasses. But I have faith in you.) After one final year with Salt Lake City for the Angels, Wayne did some college coaching, then went home to Pueblo CO and became a part-time scout for the Blue Jays, and also a fireman. Not sure if he ever uncovered any hot prospects, though… |
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07-07-2021, 11:44 PM
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This has become easily my fave thread on this board. Not only am I indulging my OC tendencies with some excellent FGs, but thanks to Amazin I am learning about players I have never even remotely heard of.
Fantastic stuff guys, thanks and keep 'em coming! G |
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07-08-2021, 02:31 AM
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Wayne Pechek was a challenge indeed.
I used the color photo above and it was the glass glare that was the toughest to address. I could try and use photoshop to blur it away on the original photo before facegen-ing it and it may be worth it to keep the glasses. You see, glasses were Wayne's thing. I pulled his high school yearbook - so wanting a better straight-on photo of him - and the man was Kent Tekulve before Kent Tekulve. Every picture with large sunglasses. But I did see what the scouts liked in him. It wasn't on-base percentage. Dude took Shawna H, voted Prettiest Girl in PCHS '73, to prom. What did the old school scouts say in Moneyball? "Shows confidence" Anyway, both facegens - the unmitigated one and the one that I used facgen's sliders on to "soften" it so as to merge the glare (and unfortunately also the glasses) away. Still him though either way... Choose the facegen you prefer. If either are too extreme in one direction, let me know and I'll aim for one in the middle, though I fear the middle will satisfy no one. |
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07-08-2021, 07:02 PM
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Sandy McDougal
Next up is John Auchanbolt McDougal, better known as Sandy McDougal. Sandy went 1-4 for the 1905 Cardinals and without doing any research whatsoever, I'm going to declare that he also had the best middle name on the squad. I don't know if it's Hungarian, French, Scottish or a Marvel ripoff of "The Flash," but I like it...
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07-08-2021, 07:10 PM
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@luckymann, On the 1903 list of ones to do, you had Pete O'Brien (1901-07) as a little off (pale). This was someone I did for the 1901 series. He's more colorized on my screen than he appeared to be in your team photo, but to get him the color he deserved, I added some color to his cheeks. The revised file was edited and swapped out on post #394. So, if you go back to that post and redownload, the color should improve.
I also added some color to post #572's Joe Stanley. I didn't update the screenshot but the file was swapped out. Lastly, I started a 1903 sim beside my 1979 one so I'm playing along as I do these in both your and Amazin's timeframe. That's where I noticed Joe looked a bit green and needed the red/green slider tweaked a bit... Slowly but surely, knocking out the list...
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07-08-2021, 07:47 PM
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07-08-2021, 10:00 PM
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Michael Joseph Morrissey was nicknamed "Deacon," which was why we know him today as Frank Morrissey. He appeared in a total of six games as a pitcher in 1901 and 1902, five of which were as a member of the Chicago Orphans going 1–3 with fourteen strikeouts in his six appearances.
luckymann, I copy the names onto a Word doc and use strikethrough for the ones I've posted to keep track. Drop the additional names and I'll add them on. |
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