Minor League Baseball Players

[PinsonHOF]

Thank you for the effort defelop. I appreciate it.

[PinsonHOF]

Thank you Cusick. I like the late 60's retro Astros look of the jacket. I like the colors of the image all the way to the flush in Miscik's face. Very cool.

[PinsonHOF]

Here is another image of wiry Venezuelan Julian Ladera who pitched in the Browns and Reds systems before moving on to the Mexican League. According to Baseball Reference his career spanned from 1952- 61 though it appears Ladera continued to hurl for several years in his native country. Here is Ladera on the cover of HIT magazine circa 1960 when he played for the Red Eagles of Veracruz. I love these HIT magazine covers as the players are presented so colorfully .


https://www.baseball-reference.com/r...d=ladera001jul

[PinsonHOF]

Edelen has a good minor league career and cups of coffee with the Cardinals and Reds. Here he is pictured with the AA Arkansas Travelers off and on from 1977 to 1980 winning 28 and losing 13. Arm problems cut his career short in 1983 at the age of 27. Included is a link to the Oklahoman where it talks about Edelen pitching 17 innings in a Class B high school championship game and striking out 35. "Benny Joe" is pictured on the 1980 card. Joe as a 1978 Traveler and "Joey" is shown winding up in 1973. Joe Edelen like his brother Jimmy won Oklahoma's Jim Thorpe award as outstanding high school athletes in baseball and basketball.



https://www.baseball-reference.com/p...delejo01.shtml

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/spor...onship-game/60

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Edelen

[Patsy Tebeau]

Originally Posted by cmcgill

You can find links to a plethora of team photos here.

This is very helpful thank you

[cmcgill]

Originally Posted by Patsy Tebeau

This is very helpful thank you

As I come across useful ones (where you can see at least most of the faces) I add them. I seen some that would be great additions, but you can't see anyone's face. Then it's just a bunch of uniforms.

[prewinter]

Originally Posted by cmcgill

As I come across useful ones (where you can see at least most of the faces) I add them. I seen some that would be great additions, but you can't see anyone's face. Then it's just a bunch of uniforms.

Feel free to add any of these to your list.
https://www.krispaulw.com/baseball/h...eamphotos.html

[cmcgill]

Originally Posted by prewinter

Feel free to add any of these to your list.
https://www.krispaulw.com/baseball/h...eamphotos.html

These are great. Thanks.

[PinsonHOF]

Arturo Gonzalez enjoyed a long and winding professional career beginning as a 16 year old centerfielder in 1972 and finishing as a pitcher in the Mexican League in 2003. Gonzalez was an error prone center fielder and hit about .175 with a horrific strikeout to walk rate. Fortunately for Arturo he had a good arm.. Good enough to reach the AAA level with the Portland Beavers in 1985 and '86 where he was a back to back 10 game winner. He was good enough to get a major league but it was not meant to be. in 28 seasons as a pitcher Arturo Gonzalez won 126 games.




https://www.baseball-reference.com/r...d=gonzal001art

[Cusick]

Arturo Gonzalez was on the Philadelphia Phillies' spring roster in 1986 and he was a non-roster invitee with them in 1985.

[PinsonHOF]

Steve Farr has a distinguished major league career as a setup man and closer. He earned a World Series ring with the '85 Royals pitching well against the Cardinals. Before this Farr languished for four years at AA Buffalo amassing a record of 37-19 from 1980 to 1983. I have included three cards from 1980, '81 and 1982 including one of Steve Farr looking slightly uncomfortable with a bat in his hand.

[Patsy Tebeau]

team photo

[prewinter]

Jake Goldie (born Jake Goldstein) played for numerous clubs in California in the late 1880s and into the 1890s. His record in Baseball-Reference is scattered, but so far I have tracked him as playing for San Francisco in 1888 (goldst001j--), Aspen and Leadville in 1889 (goldie002jac), Peoria, Muncie, Indianapolis, and Dubuque in 1890 (goldie001j--, goldie001---), back in California in 1891, and Texas in 1892 (goldie001tom). He was in Santa Cruz, California in the mid-1890s, but he turns up again in New Orleans in the spring of 1898 before playing with Shreveport that year. At that time, the papers said he played in Michigan in 1897. I've also found references to playing in Spokane in the late 1890s, and he was in Duluth for a few seasons in the early 1900s. At some point he returned to California, where he had a billiard hall in Calistoga.

In 1914, the Petaluma Morning Courier reported he was scouting for Comiskey of the White Sox and living in Portland. That same article indicated he was still playing ball the previous season in Santa Rosa.

he sounds like a guy who loved to play ball, and would travel anywhere to do so. I found references to a fiancee in California, a wife whom he married in Iowa, who died about a month later, a wife in Duluth, and then a wife when he moved to Portland in 1920 or so. Not sure if some or all of these are the same.

I think he died on December 24, 1940 in Long Beach while visiting a sister. The obituary describes him as a former ball player with the Cubs around the turn of the century. The life of Jake Goldie, just a guy who wanted to play ball.

[cmcgill]

Originally Posted by prewinter

Jake Goldie (born Jake Goldstein) played for numerous clubs in California in the late 1880s and into the 1890s. His record in Baseball-Reference is scattered, but so far I have tracked him as playing for San Francisco in 1888 (goldst001j--), Aspen and Leadville in 1889 (goldie002jac), Peoria, Muncie, Indianapolis, and Dubuque in 1890 (goldie001j--, goldie001---), back in California in 1891, and Texas in 1892 (goldie001tom). He was in Santa Cruz, California in the mid-1890s, but he turns up again in New Orleans in the spring of 1898 before playing with Shreveport that year. At that time, the papers said he played in Michigan in 1897. I've also found references to playing in Spokane in the late 1890s, and he was in Duluth for a few seasons in the early 1900s. At some point he returned to California, where he had a billiard hall in Calistoga.

Here's his TSN Contract Card.

[prewinter]

Originally Posted by cmcgill

Here's his TSN Contract Card.

I don't think this is the same person. The Jake Goldie I'm tracking was born in 1867. On the other hand, I just found some articles that suggest he was still playing for a local club in Oregon in 1909. "Old man Goldie". The man loved baseball, it seems.

[Patsy Tebeau]

Another Sam Van Anda Fort Wayne Railroaders picture from 1904 Baseball Spalding Portraits