Gambo and T_Wil1 Photopack

[Merkle923]

I'm pretty confident this is the first color image ever unearthed of middle infielder Wesley "Lee" Bales of the '67 Astros. We've seen him with the Braves (1966) and in a lot of black and white photos from Houston, but this Dexter shot is unique.

Incidentally, "gifts" #s 3 and 4 (Salty Parker coaching for the Angels, 1966; coaching and then managing for the Mets, 1967) are posted in the coaches http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...ml#post4129107 and managers http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...ml#post4129109 threads respectively.

[SDL]

Was glancing thru the FE folder and noticed that 405 is erroneously listed as Fred Holdsworth. That is actually, the late, great pitcher/songwriter Bill Slayback

[SDL]

Looking thru the MB folder, 630-631 are definitely Hawk Taylor but 632-633 is definitely not. He looks familiar but I cannot place him. Hawk Taylor was never with the Colts back then.

[keonleafs]

Originally Posted by SDL

Looking thru the MB folder, 630-631 are definitely Hawk Taylor but 632-633 is definitely not. He looks familiar but I cannot place him. Hawk Taylor was never with the Colts back then.

Chuck Taylor Colts 45 MiLB 64-65

[cheech411]

in hospital prays needed per son todd on fb[ATTACH][/ATTACH] UPDATE MEL IS DOING MUCH BETTER 12-25-16

[Rainmaker]

Originally Posted by baseball-birthdays.com

WTF is wrong with you? Please leave me out of your ongoing passive-aggressive drama with this stuff. I'm not on your payroll and I don't owe you a response to your never-ending series of emails...

I am deeply sorry to anger so many people that I respect.

[dennis_keith]

The two youngest players on Wikipedia's oldest living major leaguers list are now pitchers Don Mossi (above: Cleveland) and Moe Savransky (below: Cincinnati) at # 124 and #125, respectively. They are the first two players to be listed who were born in 1929 and have not yet had their 88th birthday. Born two days apart in January 1929 they are currently about 87 years and 11 1/2 months old.
Mossi and Savransky also made their major league debuts as 25-year-olds less than a week apart in April 1954. While Savransky (MLB debut: 4/23/54) proved to be a "one year wonder" pitching only 16 games for Cincinnati in his only major league year, Mossi went on to have a nice 12 year MLB career through 1965, mostly for the Indians, and in fact in a recent poll he was voted one of the 100 greatest Cleveland Indians of all-time.
Mossi posted a nice 101-80 lifetime record with a lifetime earned run average of about 3.40 and with 55 Complete Games and 8 Shut Outs in about 1550 innings pitched. His longtime teammate and a two-time American league all-star reliever, Ray Narleski also made his major league debut in the same game as Mossi debuted in. (4/17/54).


The main Wikipedia list covers the 100 oldest living players. If you click the word EDIT on the top right of the main list you will get additional players listed beginning from #101 through the end of the list which is variable. The highest I've ever seen this supplementary list run to is #126, but sometimes it may only run to about #110 or even lower.

[cheech411]

MERKLE 5 AT A TIME PLEASE THIS IS A GOLDMINE !!!!! phillies UECKER BUHL PHILLIES !!! I HOPE !!! red sox players tony c s lyle tony horton d bennett just for starters

[Merkle923]

Buhl's a yes. Coming up. Just got them back from the photo shop (these are large format negatives, like 3 X 4). There are no Red Sox in the collection, sadly.

[Merkle923]

As promised: Buhl was one of the Phillies captured in Dexter's visit to the Clearwater camp during Spring Training, 1967.

As I mentioned above, these are large format negatives and they've aged differently (even ones from the same shoot on the same day). There was also - and you can see that from some of the images actually used in the Dexter/Coke/Phillies set - some color variation based on what were obviously changeable skies the day Dexter took his pictures.

Short version: some of the uniforms of the newly-discovered Phils are the correct bright red, and others like Buhl have become cherry red. Still, given that I know of only two other images of Buhl in Phils' garb, it ain't bad!

[cheech411]

wow nice THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Oriole1952]

REALLY GREAT pic, thanks so much and Merry Christmas...

[rlumpkin1@tampabay.rr.com]

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! to Everyone and may 2017 be GREAT!!!! and THANKS to this GREAT site and THANKS to all that helped with pics.

[cheech411]

phillies 67 ellsworth g wagner ramos francona uecker linz

[baseball-birthdays.com]

Jimmy Hudgens, 1926 Cincinnati Reds, the image is from an eBay listing by fedxit.

[Merkle923]

As promised, a couple more from the Dexter Press negative collection.

Yes, that's Jim Gentile, the man who tied Roger Maris for the American League in RBI (and tied with him for 5th place in WAR) the year Maris broke Babe Ruth's home run record, in color, in camp with the 1967 Phillies.

It goes without saying Gentile didn't make the Phil roster, and had wrapped up his career in Cleveland in 1966. He spent two years with the Philadelphia farm in San Diego trying to make it back, but did not.

An answer on the other requests for the Phillies: there are about 500 negatives and I didn't have them all scanned. Francona (who wasn't in camp with the Phillies in 1967; he was purchased rom the Cardinals on April 10) and Uecker (who was a difficult player to get to pose) are not among them. The best I can do on the others is stick them atop a light box and take shots with my phone).

[Merkle923]

Hiding in plain sight. Two years ago he might have been the greatest of Mets white whales. In the interim one candid color image and now three posed shoots have popped up. Yep - Dexter even got him in Spring Training, 1967.

[Merkle923]

The entire Dexter collection is fascinating from both a photography and a baseball card perspective, but here's a mystery within a mystery.

As mentioned before, Dexter shot the Angels for a postcard set in 1966, and reused a '66 shot of Paul Schaal in a card that's either part of the '67 Coke set or identical in size and form. Dexter posed them again in the spring of 1968 even though they printed only one postcard, of Jim Fregosi. They did not issue a full Angels set in 1967.

Yet here's Nick Willhite, who was only with the Angels from spring training 1967 through June 10th of that year, among the Dexter negatives. And he's the only '67 Angel in the pile of 500.

George Brace shot Willhite in Comiskey Park. That's the only other color image I'm aware of showing Willhite in an Angels' uniform.

[Merkle923]

Some players are just tough to find in color. Other than his Topps cards, it's tough to locate color shots of Voss with his original team (the White Sox), or his later stops in California, Milwaukee, Oakland, and St. Louis (seen only in black and white).

In addition to the Dexter shot below, I tripped over a poorly reproduced McWilliams shot of Voss with the A's on SABR's site. But better still, the third image is a fantastic internet deconstruction of an epic Topps error from 1973 on what's supposed to be Joe Rudi's card. It's long been known that the player in the middle being congratulated by his teammates isn't Rudi but rather Gene Tenace.

But I had never bothered to check - and didn't know anybody else who had - the identities of the two players shown with Tenace. Sure enough, they're Marty Martinez and Voss!

[Merkle923]

Nothing special about a shot of the great Stott, but I thought it fitting given the existence of a pose not used by Dexter in its 1967 set, and given the good news on his improved health.