LansdowneSt's Facegen Checklist

[LansdowneSt]

Imagine you’re standing at the plate. You see the pitch coming toward you and you think that you’re gonna knock the snot out of that sucker. You swing with everything you have and you hit … air. Congratulations! Bruce Sutter just got you with his split-fingered fastball. The split-fingered fastball moves toward the plate as if it’s rolling along a table. It heads on a beeline when all of a sudden the bottom falls out of it, you feel like an idiot, and the catcher is laughing. The pitch not only saved what had been a moribund career, it propelled Sutter to 300 career saves and a one-way ticket to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. - SABR

Redone by request. The screenshot on the far left is the one currently in the CU Facegen pack and is likely from the photo on the far right. I gave it a go with the pic on the left.

[Tommarine]

Just wanted to second what luckymann replied above. Your Facegens are a big reason why I never get tired of this game. Thank you so much for the time and energy you put into these. Just incredible work!

[LansdowneSt]

Thanks so much! Kind words keep me going. Been working on a ton of current players for the past few weeks in preparation for the game's release, so I'm behind where I would be on the historic ones. If I were to do every single MLB'er myself that'd be 21,000 more to go... so patience is required. But I enjoy it The community (and the developers) have given so much over the seventeen years I've been playing, I'm just doing my small part to give back where I can.

[actionjackson]

Wow. I'd been gone since February 8th. Awesome stuff. Love Reed Johnson. That second photo of Tim Keefe is a dead ringer for actor Kevin Kline. Nice job on Keefe too. He was starting to dominate my RD league when I left off.

[LansdowneSt]

Welcome back, action. I fear your Jays are going to whoop my Sox this year in the East. Download the whole pack I put on MediaFire - there's hundreds I didn't post on the thread in there due to time constraints. Been busy doing current players but still doing a ton of facegens in my spare time!

[actionjackson]

Originally Posted by LansdowneSt

Welcome back, action. I fear your Jays are going to whoop my Sox this year in the East. Download the whole pack I put on MediaFire - there's hundreds I didn't post on the thread in there due to time constraints. Been busy doing current players but still doing a ton of facegens in my spare time!

I'm dumb. Or lazy. Where's the link?

As for Jays/Red Sox: It's gonna be a four way Pier 6 brawl, all season long. Health will be the deciding factor, so there's no way you can predict anything this early in the season. Maybe not even late in the season. Better buckle up, 'cause it's gonna be crazy.

[actionjackson]

Got stuff I gotta do now, but I'll PM ya later with some questions I have.

[actionjackson]

Originally Posted by LansdowneSt

Welcome back, action. I fear your Jays are going to whoop my Sox this year in the East. Download the whole pack I put on MediaFire - there's hundreds I didn't post on the thread in there due to time constraints. Been busy doing current players but still doing a ton of facegens in my spare time!

Regarding the Jays. Just noticed the "23" logo in OOTP23, is Blue Jay blue, and is a very similar script to the numbers on the backs of our jerseys. IT'S A SIGN FROM THE BASEBALL GODS!!! IT'S DESTINY!!!

[The Game]

not sure if this FG is accurate but if not could you try it? He was friends with my dad in school.

[LansdowneSt]

This one's for The_Game...

From the Press and Sun-Bulletin, Binghamton, New York, 25 Apr 1965:

"Herb Feris got rid of one "r" many years ago. This is the year that he feels he must somewhat reduce the K's. Herb is the new [Birmingham, NY] Triplet first-baseman, with the square-jawed, clear-eyed, fresh-scrubbed look of an All-American Boy Type. The loss of the "r" was something beyond his control. His dad legally changed the family name from Ferris for business reasons. Chicago was full of Ferrises. But there's only one Feris Flying service, as Father F. calls the thriving private airport he operates in Hindale, out west of the city."

Alas, in four professional minor league seasons he batted .193 and in 1,246 PA, he struck out 444 times. Still, Herb, class of '63, was inducted into the Hinsdale HS HoF which noted how he excelled at baseball, earning All-Conference and All Area honors as MVP of the of the 1962 high school team, signed with the Yankees, met his some of the game greats before becoming a coach and eventually paying mind to his three children and now six grandchildren.

I found one picture of him from that 1965 article. I had to clean it up and close his mouth to work with it. Best I could do.

[The Game]

Thank you so much. Gonna read the write-up to my dad in a bit.

[LansdowneSt]

Originally Posted by The Game

Thank you so much. Gonna read the write-up to my dad in a bit.

just sent you the whole article from 1965 via email . The end part was just from the HS HoF page...

[LansdowneSt]

Added a hundred more fg's

https://www.mediafire.com/file/ox6gx..._Pack.zip/file

[Scipio Africanus]

Thanks man. Much appreciated.

[actionjackson]

Originally Posted by LansdowneSt

Added a hundred more fg's

https://www.mediafire.com/file/yyaoe...12022.zip/file

Thank you! Yer a star!

[The Game]

Have you done this one yet?

[LansdowneSt]

Part of the story of Willard Eben Mains is typical of the era, but his achievements during his baseball career are not. Mains pitched in professional baseball for 20 years (1887-1906). He played briefly in the majors; the bulk of his career was spent in various minor leagues, where he was the first pitcher to win more than 300 games. When his career ended in 1906, only six major league pitchers (all future Hall of Famers) had reached 300 wins. Only Cy Young, Kid Nichols and Tim Keefe had more victories than his 334 total. Mains was arguably the best minor league pitcher of his day.

Typical of the times, Mains had to support himself when he was not playing professional baseball. Most players held down other jobs during the off-seasons. As early as the 1890s, Mains was making baseball bats in Sandy Creek, Maine. According to his grandson, Mains’s bats were used by the minor league teams he played on and by other teams in the region. - SABR

Redid the facegen.

[The Game]

Have you done Tom Carey? i need to add your updates & any new updates from Skunkle to my files.

[LansdowneSt]

Tom Carey (born J.J. Norton) had the first putout in a major league baseball league. In the opener of the 1871 National Association, second baseman Carey caught a liner by Gene Kimball and then completed an unassisted double play by tagging out baserunner Deacon White. He was playing for the Fort Wayne Kekiongas against the Cleveland Forest Citys. Carey had previously played for the amateur Baltimore Marylands.

Biographical information listed for Tom Carey in earlier baseball encyclopedias has proven to be false. While he was born in the New York City area, he was likely three years older than his original listed birthday of 1849. It is known that he was a Civil War veteran who moved from Brooklyn to California in 1869 and was a soldier in San Francisco's Presidio garrison at that time. He returned to California after his playing career. In May 1906, The San Francisco Call reported in 1906 that Carey was struggling financially and that he was standing in the city's bread lines. He died later that year. - bRef Bullpen wiki

Redid the facegen for The_Game.

[The Game]

Got another minor leaguer for ya. I follow him on Twitter so I can get ya a pic if you need it. He played in 1986 Expos system.