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[LansdowneSt]

Former Padres manager and general manager Jack McKeon, the architect of San Diego's 1984 National League pennant-winning squad, has been elected to the team's Hall of Fame.

"Trader Jack," as he is fondly referred to by Padres fans, spent 11 years with the organization, serving as general manager from 1980-90. In the last three of those seasons, McKeon was also the 12th manager in Padres history, going 193-164. But it was while he was with the Padres from 1979 through 1990 — as both general manager and manager — that McKeon earned his nickname. “I don’t have to trade, but I’m not afraid to pull the trigger,” McKeon once said. “If I can improve the Padres with a trade, I’ll consider anything. I’m a gambler. I always have been. I’m aggressive and I’m confident. I’m not worried about making a mistake because I think I’m going to be right much more often than I’m wrong.” - mlb.com, 2017

I save managers in the First_Last.fg format so as not to overwrite any MLB or MiLB playing day facegens they have. The manager profiles don't use the Historical Minors code so it works out.

[percolaten]

I'm wondering if some magic can be done to produce "We Are Family" versions of '79 Pirates Kent Tekulve...

[percolaten]

...and Tim Foli, except the best photo I coud find was one of him with the Rangers.

[justtxyank]

Originally Posted by LansdowneSt

Former Padres manager and general manager Jack McKeon, the architect of San Diego's 1984 National League pennant-winning squad, has been elected to the team's Hall of Fame.

"Trader Jack," as he is fondly referred to by Padres fans, spent 11 years with the organization, serving as general manager from 1980-90. In the last three of those seasons, McKeon was also the 12th manager in Padres history, going 193-164. But it was while he was with the Padres from 1979 through 1990 — as both general manager and manager — that McKeon earned his nickname. “I don’t have to trade, but I’m not afraid to pull the trigger,” McKeon once said. “If I can improve the Padres with a trade, I’ll consider anything. I’m a gambler. I always have been. I’m aggressive and I’m confident. I’m not worried about making a mistake because I think I’m going to be right much more often than I’m wrong.” - mlb.com, 2017

I save managers in the First_Last.fg format so as not to overwrite any MLB or MiLB playing day facegens they have. The manager profiles don't use the Historical Minors code so it works out.

Tremendous!


Thank you!

[LansdowneSt]

When the calendar flipped to July in 1979, manager Chuck Tanner declared that, nearly halfway through the season, he believed the Pirates had the National League’s most valuable player on their roster. Tanner wasn’t talking about Dave Parker or Willie Stargell or Bill Robinson. No, the manager meant Tim Foli, the fiery shortstop who only three months earlier was stuck in New York, wondering whether his playing career was over.

By modern metrics, Foli’s numbers in 1979 were nothing special. Below average, actually. But he fit the Pirates’ need for a No. 2 hitter between Omar Moreno and Parker. “I felt like I finally got to play on a team where the things I did — catch the ball, throw it across the infield, turn double plays and set up Parker and Stargell for RBIs — mattered,” Foli recalled. Until that season, Foli underachieved. He had promise and an unquenchable temper. “I was a hothead,” Foli said. “It (cooled) some over time, but not enough. Now I’d do it differently. I was a hothead. I did things I probably shouldn’t have.” Kent Tekulve, the former Pirates closer, offered this interpretation. “He wasn’t really a hothead,” he said, laughing. “He was overly emotional.”

Foli’s baseball days are in the rearview mirror, but when he looks back, he’s proud. He was a hothead. He was never worth the No. 1 pick. But he played his part. And for the 1979 Pirates, that’s exactly what was needed.

“Not everybody can be a star,” Foli said. - a great article in The Athletic

I lived in Pittsburgh a young boy for a single year - 1979. I used to listen to the Red Sox on an AM radio but caught a bit of "We Are Family" fever so all the '79 Pirates are favorites of mine. A confession on this one. I found a great photo of him with Montreal. Crisp from the Topps vault, I think, and just a few shadows to fix. I did it up and then I was staring at it. Something was off. Ugh! How could I forget the mustache! So, I did a first for me. I cut the mustache off his Rangers pic and sized it atop his cleaned-up Montreal photo. So, not a cheat per se - after all it IS his mustache... Anyway, I am showing the fg next to photos of him with said actual mustache. Looks enough like what I remember him looking like in '79 for me.

[luckymann]

Originally Posted by LansdowneSt

When the calendar flipped to July in 1979, manager Chuck Tanner declared that, nearly halfway through the season, he believed the Pirates had the National League’s most valuable player on their roster. Tanner wasn’t talking about Dave Parker or Willie Stargell or Bill Robinson. No, the manager meant Tim Foli, the fiery shortstop who only three months earlier was stuck in New York, wondering whether his playing career was over.

By modern metrics, Foli’s numbers in 1979 were nothing special. Below average, actually. But he fit the Pirates’ need for a No. 2 hitter between Omar Moreno and Parker. “I felt like I finally got to play on a team where the things I did — catch the ball, throw it across the infield, turn double plays and set up Parker and Stargell for RBIs — mattered,” Foli recalled. Until that season, Foli underachieved. He had promise and an unquenchable temper. “I was a hothead,” Foli said. “It (cooled) some over time, but not enough. Now I’d do it differently. I was a hothead. I did things I probably shouldn’t have.” Kent Tekulve, the former Pirates closer, offered this interpretation. “He wasn’t really a hothead,” he said, laughing. “He was overly emotional.”

Foli’s baseball days are in the rearview mirror, but when he looks back, he’s proud. He was a hothead. He was never worth the No. 1 pick. But he played his part. And for the 1979 Pirates, that’s exactly what was needed.

“Not everybody can be a star,” Foli said. - a great article in The Athletic

I lived in Pittsburgh a young boy for a single year - 1979. I used to listen to the Red Sox on an AM radio but caught a bit of "We Are Family" fever so all the '79 Pirates are favorites of mine. A confession on this one. I found a great photo of him with Montreal. Crisp from the Topps vault, I think, and just a few shadows to fix. I did it up and then I was staring at it. Something was off. Ugh! How could I forget the mustache! So, I did a first for me. I cut the mustache off his Rangers pic and sized it atop his cleaned-up Montreal photo. So, not a cheat per se - after all it IS his mustache... Anyway, I am showing the fg next to photos of him with said actual mustache. Looks enough like what I remember him looking like in '79 for me.

One of your absolute best bud. Can't wait to hit this era in my Bucs save.

[LansdowneSt]

At the Pirates’ minor-league pitching camp in 1970, Harding Peterson, the team’s minor-league director, told two pitching prospects to abandon their side-arm pitching delivery. Fortunately, neither listened, as each would become a Pirate World Series hero, with Bruce Kison starring in 1971 and Kent Tekulve in 1979 with the “We Are Family” champs. During offseason banquets, Tekulve said, “That’s how smart you need to be as the general manager of a World Series champion.” - SABR

And from the New York Times Oct. 13 1979 in an article titled "What is a Kent Tekulve?"

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 12 — Relief pitchers come in all shapes, sizes and styles. Goose Gossage cuts down batters the way a lumberjack cuts down trees. Stu Miller was so small that a wind once blew him off the mound. Mike Marshall lectures on kinesiology. Ryne Duren could just about see the plate through his bottle‐thick glasses. Rollie Fingers waxes his mustache. Hoyt Wilhelm fluttered his knuckleball until he was 49 years old. Sparky Lyle wrote his memoirs. And now there is Kenton Charles Tekulve of the Pittsburgh Pirates, gaunt and gangling, who throws as if he were slipping $5 to a maitre d’ under the table. Including his two hitless innings in the Pirates’ 8‐4 loss tonight that moved the Baltimore Orioles into a 2‐1 lead in the World Series, he has appeared in 98 games this year without any apparent distress in his thin right arm.

“I have the kind of arm that doesn't tighten up,” Kent Tekulve says. “Maybe that's because there are no muscles in it.” At a skinny 160 pounds, Kent Tekulve resembles a cross between Gomer Pyle, Ichabod Crane and a scarecrow. He is all arms and legs and face, almost as if he had no torso. But what makes him different, as well as difficult to hit, is his delivery. “I'm somewhere between sidearm and submarine,” he says. “But the reason I'm effective is not so much where the ball is coming from, as that it's coming from a different spot.”

I did a Kent Tekulve way back on this thread when I first started posting so the "before" is my own. This time I closed the mouth so I do like it better. It's a tough one regardless. Not sure if the glasses will stick on a mac, percolaten...

[luckymann]

Currently reading Moneyball - Kent would have been an idol of Chad Bradford, methinks... and vice-versa.

[percolaten]

Fantastic! And great personal story! Thank you!

[justtxyank]

Another one you could maybe take a stab at is manager Lou Piniella? The current one loads up an odd white/gray face for me.

[luckymann]

You seem to be on a roll bud, so here's a few more for whenever - thanks!

G

Rickie Weeks

Milt Cuyler

and the one and only Neon Deion Sanders




No pre-versions for the first two, sorry, I cut them before I took screenshots.

[AESP_pres]

LansdowneSt Do you think you could do something foe Tom Lanning (1938) with those pictures? First was in cinemaodyssey photopack and the second was in his Find a grave page... He has an Ancestry page too.

Thanks!

[justtxyank]

One last request: Mel Wright
Coach for the Astros and Expos. Not a lot of great photos of him, perhaps impossible to make?
Here's bw photos:



Color:

[cinemaodyssey]

Originally Posted by AESP_pres

LansdowneSt Do you think you could do something foe Tom Lanning (1938) with those pictures? First was in cinemaodyssey photopack and the second was in his Find a grave page... He has an Ancestry page too.

Thanks!

Here's one more option I had for Lanning, circa 1939 with Memphis.

[AESP_pres]

Obviously LansdowneSt can do better (I hate working with FGM 3.31 because they removed the cleaning option) but this is what I was able to do with the picture you posted earlier...

For some reasons the treatment gave him big fluo orange eyebrows

[LansdowneSt]

Tom Lanning, a left-handed pitcher, was a star athlete at Wake Forest College, where he received three letters in baseball, and Biltmore Junior College, which is now the University of North Carolina at Asheville. He was said to have a good curve, and he also threw a knuckleball. He joined the Winston-Salem Twins of the Piedmont League in 1932, when he was 25 years old. But by the end of 1937, Lanning was 30 years old and had yet to pitch anywhere outside of the low minor leagues.

Lanning reported back to Dothan in 1938 but was traded to the Montgomery Rebels weeks later. In moving from the Class D Alabama-Florida League to the Class B Southeastern League, Lanning would be put to the test, trying his skill against players who were a little more developed. He had an excellent year, achieving a 14-10 record and 3.17 ERA. He gave up a lot of hits – 252 in 216 innings – but his walk ratio was a solid 2.3 per 9 innings. On September 3, Lanning was brought to the majors by the Philadelphia Phillies. All told, Lanning pitched 7 innings over the three games, with an 0-1 record and 6.43 ERA. He struck out 2, walked 2 and gave up 9 hits. Though it was thought that he would compete for a spot on the 1939 rotation, he was instead farmed out to the Memphis Chicks of the Southern Association and out of the game at the end of 1940. Had Lanning dedicated himself to the game, it’s reasonable to think that he could have had the type of career that his younger brother did. - R.I.P. Baseball

So, I didn't see the new picture of him until a few minutes ago. I trolled his college yearbooks a couple hours ago and selected his basketball picture to use. That picture is on the far left. I added cinemaodyssey's to the row and even tacked on his brother's picture as I considered that in my work. I'm pleased it looks like this one from the Chicks (at least to my eye). Given that, it's close enough for me, as-is, based on the 1929 yearbook photo.

[LansdowneSt]

MONTREAL -- Montreal Expos' coach Mel Wright, who spent 32 years in professional baseball, has died in Houston following a lengthy fight with cancer, the Expos announced Tuesday. He was 55. Wright died of heart failure Monday night at Methodist Hospital in Houston. He entered the hospital April 14 during an Expos' road trip to Houston. He missed the second half of the 1982 season as an Astros' coach because of cancer.

Wright followed Manager Bill Virdon from the Astros to the Expos this season and went through spring training and the first week of the regular season with the club. He worked in baseball as a pitcher, scout, manager and coach. He was a coach under Virdon since the 1973 season, following him to the Pittsburgh Pirates, the New York Yankees, the Astros and the Expos. He spent most of his playing career as a pitcher in the minor leagues but played parts of four seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1954 and 1955, and the Chicago Cubs in 1960 and 1961. - UPI ARCHIVES MAY 17, 1983

By request. Man, every picture I wanted to use had dark sunglasses. Lest he be a raccoon in the facegen, I tried to clean and lighten it up but leave the impression the glasses. Rather than spend hours on it, I thought this might work for ya. It's saved in the manager/coach format of First_Last name so I can do a facegen of him as a player at some point later and not erase this one by accident.

[LansdowneSt]

In virtually all of his managerial stops, Lou Piniella turned struggling teams into pennant contenders.

It’s a legacy that has brought Piniella acclaim and admiration throughout baseball – and has taken him to the precipice of the Hall of Fame. Piniella is one of 10 finalists on this year’s Today’s Game Era ballot that will be considered by the committee on managers, umpires, executives and long-retired players at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. In 23 seasons as a manager, Piniella won 1,835 games – good for 14th on the all-time list. Of the 13 managers ahead of Piniella on the wins list, only Gene Mauch has not been elected to the Hall of Fame. He received Manager of the Year votes in 14 of his 23 seasons and led his teams to six division titles.

“He wears his feelings on his sleeve, and you know exactly how he feels,” said Mariners Chairman and CEO Howard Lincoln when Piniella left the Mariners after posting seven winning records in 10 seasons. “All of that is what makes Lou a good manager: His passion, his refusal to pull punches.” - HoF website

Managers are tough, but here's a shot at a revised Lou as a manager for you, justtxyank. You didn't say if you wanted young-ish Yankee/Reds Lou or an older one. I chose Tampa Lou. As always for a manager, it's saved as a First_Last name facegen to avoid conflicting with the player-age fg that uses his Historical Minors ID.

[LansdowneSt]

We remember Deion, the football player. The Hall of Famer. The stuff of a quarterback’s nightmare, walking, talking, and dancing across the gridiron. We remember one of the greatest cornerbacks of all time, the 53 interceptions, the 18 touchdowns; we remember Prime Time.

But there was also Deion, the baseball player. The leadoff hitter. The prolific base stealer. The field-shrinking outfielder. He had so much potential that MLB teams kept signing him even though he could only play for a fraction of each season before he’d have to report for NFL training camp. Or, as he often did, play both sports simultaneously. Early on, Sanders chose to prioritize football over baseball. “I’m married to football,” Sanders said in a 1989 Sports Illustrated cover story. “Baseball is my girlfriend.”

Atlanta pitcher Marvin Freeman remembers the first time he ever saw Sanders, in St. Petersburg, Fla. Freeman was out to dinner, and someone at his table pointed out the dual-sport star. Look, it’s Prime Time, Freeman’s companion said in awe. “I had never heard of him,” Freeman says. “He was real flashy so I was like, ‘What is he, a rapper or something?’” With a baseball uniform on, Sanders was simply another one of the guys clawing to make a big league roster. “He was exactly, 100% the opposite of what everybody thinks he is,” Freeman says. “That dude was some kind of teammate, some kind of friend, just a special person.” - Sports illustrated

Redone upon request.

[luckymann]

Fantastic re Deion bud, one of your best blurbs yet thanks so much.