Krantzbucks pics to colorize

[krantzbucks]

Lee Currin Gooch upscaled and colorized with the Philadelphia Athletics from an image shared by tnfoto. Double whammy upscale from pica.ai and deepnostalgia.ai with colors by Palette.fm

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Blaine M. Thomas upscaled and colorized from an image shared by dto 7. thanks go to pica.ai and palette.fm
With this image, I have added a blur to the second image to try to remove some of the grain from the newspaper source

[infieldfly]

Originally Posted by UKBaseballfan

Attached is a 1924 image of Kent Greenfield from his rookie year with the New York Giants.

Couldn't do much with this. Went to ebay and found a somewhat better starting point of same pose. Still not a great result.


Interestingly, he and Robert Penn Warren were longtime friends. Interesting reading here.

[bobw]

From RMY Auctions...w color by Palette fm.....

[UKBaseballfan]

Originally Posted by infieldfly

Couldn't do much with this. Went to ebay and found a somewhat better starting point of same pose. Still not a great result.


Interestingly, he and Robert Penn Warren were longtime friends. Interesting reading here.

Thanks for the very interesting article on Greenfield and also the effort made in respect of the Greenfield image.

The image of Greenfield subsequently posted is from 1925.

Attached is a 1924 image of right handed pitcher Red Lucas who was also known for his prowess as a switch hitter.

Lucas made his debut in April 1923 for the New York Giants appearing in 3 games pitching 5 plus innings and being credited with 1 save. He appeared in 27 games for the 24 Braves which included 18 games finished and 1 complete game. 2 years later in 1926 he reappeared with the team he is most associated in his 157 win career the Cincinnati Reds. He went 8-5 from 11 starts with 21 games finished, appearing in a career high 39 games. In 1927 he finished 11th in MVP voting posting a 18-11 record with a career high 4 shutouts. In 1928 he matched his career high in shutouts but this year it was enough to lead the National League, but his record declined to 13-9. In 1929 he recorded a career high 19 wins and also finished a career best earning 6th place in MVP voting. He also led the National League with 28 complete games and sent a career high with 270 innings pitched. In 1930 he again gained consideration in MVP voting despite a losing record. 1931 saw him just regaining a winning record but his durability in again leading the National League in complete games led to more MVP votes. In 1932 he posted his lowest ERA going under 3 for the only time with a 2.94 mark again leading the League with 28 complete games. In 1933 he showcased excellent control in averaging less than 1 walk per 9 innings to lead the League and again gained MVP votes despite a 10-16 record. Lucas joined the Pirates in 1934 posting a 10-9 record from 22 starts. In 1935 he went 8-6 from 19 starts. 1936 was easily his most effective year with Pittsburgh again leading the National League in fewest walks per 9 innings and posting a 15-4 record. 1937 saw him start all 20 of his appearances but his record declined to 8-10. 1938, the final year of his career, he again started all 13 of his appearances posting a 6-3 record. His career record was 157-135 with a 3.72 ERA, completing 204 of his 302 starts.

[krantzbucks]

Bernard Daniel Kuhn colorized and upscaled. Pixa.ai and kolorize.cc helped

[krantzbucks]

Kenneth Timothy Hogan upscaled by deepnostalgia.ai, colorized by Palette.fm (with a lot of tweaks), then upscaled again with Pica.ai
all from an image shared by dto7

[infieldfly]

Originally Posted by UKBaseballfan

Attached is a 1924 image of right handed pitcher Red Lucas who was also known for his prowess as a switch hitter.

More of the phantom AI hair wisps...


palette.fm, et al.

[krantzbucks]

Kenneth Wandersee "Hook" Johnson upscaled and colorized with the Detroit Tigers and St Louis Cardinals. The Tigers image was shared by baseball-birthdays while the Cardinals image was shared by tnfoto.Thanks to deepnostalgoa.ai, pica.ai and Palette.fm.

[UKBaseballfan]

Originally Posted by infieldfly

More of the phantom AI hair wisps...


palette.fm, et al.

Thank you for the upgraded Red Lucas outcome, may be possible to deal with the phantom.

Here is a 1924 image of Bub Kuhn extracted from the recently posted Cleveland 1924 team image by Dto7.

Kuhn's only Major League appearance took place on 1st September against the St. Louis Browns. He pitched the final inning of the game giving up 3 earned runs. He pitched the bottom of the eighth with the score tied at 8, so unfortunately the runs he gave up resulted in him being credited with the loss as the Indians could not plate any runs in the top of the ninth. The go ahead runs being scored on a 2 run homer with none out by Ken Williams.

[infieldfly]

Originally Posted by krantzbucks

Kenneth Wandersee "Hook" Johnson upscaled and colorized with the Detroit Tigers and St Louis Cardinals. The Tigers image was shared by baseball-birthdays while the Cardinals image was shared by tnfoto.Thanks to deepnostalgoa.ai, pica.ai and Palette.fm.

Really fine detail work on these...

[krantzbucks]

Robert Troxell "Ray" Knode upscaled and colorized with the Cleveland Indians from an image shared by tnfoto. I employed Pica.ai and Palette.fm

[Patsy Tebeau]

Kolorize

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Thomas Jefferson Gulley upscaled and colorized with the Chicago White Sox from an image shared by Amazin69. Kudos to Palette.fm and Pica.ai

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Virgil Earl "Chief" Cheeves upscaled and colorized with the Chicago Cubs from an image shared by tnfoto. Thanks to Pica.ai and palette.fm

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Wyatt Arnold "Watty" Lee upscaled and colorized with the Washington Senators with a nod to deepnostalgia.ai and palette.fm

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Henry Victor Bradford upscaled and colorized with Navy baseball. Thanks go to Palette.fm and nostalgia.ai

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Victor Sylvester Saier colorized and upscaled with the Chicago Cubs from an image found on SABR. I colorized this image first using palette.fm then upscaled using Pica.ai

[krantzbucks]

Bernard Daniel " Bub" Kuhn upscaled and colorized with the 1924 Cleveland Indians. This proved an interesting image to work with as both of the upscaling programs I use chose to represent the Indians' cap Kuhn is wearing as hair. I tried to ameliorate by colorizing first but this produced marginal improvement. I finally ended up doing a cut and paste of the bottom player's cap.

[UKBaseballfan]

Originally Posted by krantzbucks

Bernard Daniel " Bub" Kuhn upscaled and colorized with the 1924 Cleveland Indians. This proved an interesting image to work with as both of the upscaling programs I use chose to represent the Indians' cap Kuhn is wearing as hair. I tried to ameliorate by colorizing first but this produced marginal improvement. I finally ended up doing a cut and paste of the bottom player's cap.

Placing these comments in context having just listened to the superb Chris Hayes discussing the development of AI in a typically enlightening podcast I do feel it amazing that your experience of AI was as described in the stage of development it has reached. I have to say it conflicts with my experience as I would expect by now for AI software to have established what baseball is and that their participants wear caps in contrast to most other sports. I would not have expected it to know that Bub Kuhn was a baseball player but when the image was also labelled with a team name I would have expected it to know that the Cleveland Indians was a baseball team and also typically the colors of their cap. Having used the facilitate to work on soccer images it is clear to me that when you label an image with not just a personal name but an additional team name you get a much better response and that it can often vary its response to differentiate the color of say an Everton label to a Liverpool label. It is interesting to experiment with the image labelling process to see what works and what does not in terms of the desired colorized outcome.

Attached is another image provided, by cinemaodyssey, in response to my request for 1924 Indians images. This is of right handed pitcher Virgil Cheeves. Cheeves made his debut in 1920 with the Chicago Cubs and stayed there for the first 4 seasons of his Major League career. He did not record any decisions in that initial season despite making 2 starts and finishing 2 games in his 5 outings. In both the next 2 years he made 22 starts and went 11-12 and then 12-11 in those consecutive seasons. In the second of those years, 1922 he posted career best figures in the vast majority of statistical categories but his ERA remained over 4. In 1923 his number of starts fell to 8 and he joined the Cleveland Indians in 1924 but his ERA approached 8 and he was decision less in his 8 appearances. He returned to the Majors for his final season with the 1927 New York Giants, again with no record from his 3 appearances.