Complete Universe Facegen Pack

[luckymann]

Originally Posted by LansdowneSt

Michael Joseph Morrissey was nicknamed "Deacon," which was why we know him today as Frank Morrissey. He appeared in a total of six games as a pitcher in 1901 and 1902, five of which were as a member of the Chicago Orphans going 1–3 with fourteen strikeouts in his six appearances.

luckymann, I copy the names onto a Word doc and use strikethrough for the ones I've posted to keep track. Drop the additional names and I'll add them on.

We are obviously OC brothers from different mothers - that is exactly how I do it!

OK, here are the randoms:

Mike Golden (1875-78)
Toad Ramsay (1885-90)
Cy Swaim (1897-98)
Mark Baldwin (1887-93)
Joe Harris (1914-28)
Joe Oeschger (1914-25)
George Zackert (1911-12)

Well, I did say "random"...

Thanks bud, do what you can with these.

G

[LansdowneSt]

Jack Morrissey had a two-year stint with the Cincinnati Reds punctuated by a fight with Honus Wagner when the Dutchman flew at him spikes first on a play a second. Jack is also famous for being the Morrissey I was supposed to do when I accidently did Frank a post or two ago. But Frank was MIA in my database anyway, so win-win. Here's Jack Morrissey...

[LansdowneSt]

“I definitely gave up college when they handed me a textbook entitled Ars Discendi... It was all in Latin which was too much for me. It was more fun to listen to Rube Waddell.” - Andy Coakley, on why he left Holy Cross for a life in baseball

The moundsman formerly known as Jack McAllister (he played under this false name in 1902), Andy Coakley pitched nine big league seasons. He did his best work in 1905, going 18-8 with a 1.84 ERA and 145 strikeouts in helping the Philadelphia Athletics to an American League pennant. As a coach of Columbia University's baseball team after his playing days, he had a young player named Lou Gehrig under his wing.

I tried colorizing his old facegen first but it was from his coaching days and had a wicked shadow. I found a younger, cleaner picture and redid him.

[luckymann]

Andy Coakley McAllister is one of those guys who seems to pop up in EVERY save. I think he's in 4 of mine.

Nice work there, that was a tricky one.

G

[LansdowneSt]

Over the years Toad Ramsey became famous as a left-handed strikeout artist - due to an injury he had suffered as a bricklayer, he could not flex one of his fingers properly and so threw something akin to a knuckleball. He was also reputedly the inventor of the Toad Ramsey cocktail: a pint of whiskey poured into a pitcher full of beer, which the inventor supposedly drank down three times per day.

This was a fun facegen to make. Don't often use a sketch as a starting point...

[luckymann]

Originally Posted by LansdowneSt

Over the years Toad Ramsey became famous as a left-handed strikeout artist - due to an injury he had suffered as a bricklayer, he could not flex one of his fingers properly and so threw something akin to a knuckleball. He was also reputedly the inventor of the Toad Ramsey cocktail: a pint of whiskey poured into a pitcher full of beer, which the inventor supposedly drank down three times per day.

This was a fun facegen to make. Don't often use a sketch as a starting point...

Toad, not to put too fine a point on it, has been KILLING it for the Kansas Jayhawks in the ACBA, my NCAA save. 17-4 with a 2.30 ERA and 328 strikeouts in 191 innings in '50, and so far in '51 he's fanned 28 in 17 IP.

TOAD RAMSAY

[LansdowneSt]

Any game you play, acquire him - Toad is fantastic. I like this thread on reddit...

https://www.reddit.com/r/OOTP/commen...ikeouts_every/

[LansdowneSt]

“Mr. Gertenrich was able to arrange his affairs for a lay-off of three months (in order to play for Springfield, and) the rich man negotiated with (Manager Jack) Hendricks for a position…The very next afternoon beheld Mr. Gertenrich, free from business care and happy as a proverbial lark, capering in the Springfield pasture and slamming that old ball like seven Cobbs and a Lajoie thrown in for luck.

“On his first day out he got three singles. Next day he amassed two triples and a double. The third day he whacked a home run and a single. On his fourth day he drew three passes and connected for a triple. On the morning of the fifth day Mr. Hendricks summoned him to headquarters.

“’Mr. Gertenrich,’ said Mr. Hendricks, pausing to wipe away a tear ‘you are a great batsman and a good fellow. You are setting this league afire. You are the wonder of the Twentieth Century. But you are breaking the hearts of my younger players. They cannot bat like you. They are losing their ambition. A few more games with you among them and they will pine away and die…Moreover Mr. Gertenrich, you have money. You do not need this job. The boys whom you are shoving into obscurity have little families and need the coin. I hate to say it Mr. Gertenrich,’—and the manager again wiped away a tear—‘but you and I must part. Here is your release. Goodbye, Mr. Gertenrich, and good luck be with you. Please go away, for I weep every time I look at you.”

As a candy maker, Lou Gertenrich, had one more connection with professional baseball. An advertisement for his company appears on the back of a baseball card set. The 120 card set–the more common version advertises American Caramel on the back (E121)—was issued in 1922. The Gertenrich variations are extremely rare.

[luckymann]

All Lou was interested in was Gertenrich...

[LansdowneSt]

Joe Harris served with the 80th Division, 320th Infantry in World War I. Sent to France, his wartime bunkmate was Johnny Miljus, with whom he would be together again as members of the Pittsburgh Pirates team in the 1927 World Series. The first major attack the U.S. Army made was in the Argonne Woods, north of Verdun, against an enemy well placed in defensive positions in the difficult terrain thick with forest and underbrush. Although the Americans attacked with great spirit, their assault ground to a halt, and they took heavy casualties. Harris and Miljus were both gassed and Miljus was bayoneted. Later Harris suffered a cracked skull in a truck accident which limited his play in 1919 and almost ended his baseball career. This caused a permanent injury around the eye. It is not known if this affected his vision nor which eye it was but it did provoke an unusual batting stance.

Mustered out as a Sergeant when the War was over, he returned to the Indians in 1919. When the season was over, he played for an industrial team in Franklin, PA. The Indians offered him $5,000 for 1920. So did the Franklin team in the Franklin Oil City League. Harris had become enthralled with a local girl in Franklin and chose Franklin (or better said "chose" the lady in Franklin whom he later married). Judge Landis promptly banned him from baseball for life for having "played with and against ineligible players in independent games".

His application for reinstatement for 1922, however, was accepted by Landis, making him the first ballplayer to be reinstated after receiving a lifetime banishment. Landis mentioned, when he reinstated Harris, accommodation for circumstances we would call today post traumatic stress disorder.

On the facegen, the old one was from when was a manager/coach. I found a younger version of Joe on gettyimages from the '27 Pirates and redid it using that one.

[luckymann]

Had to do some research on this one, who is named Brownie Foreman in my save / OOTP but was christened John and played in 1895-96.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/p...orembr01.shtml

[luckymann]

Another one from the depths of history...

Erv Kantlehner (1914-16)

Thanks bud

G

[LansdowneSt]

"The Case of Harry Berte" made the front page of the March 19, 1898 Sporting Life, when it was decided that a team had the right to keep "reserve" players. Berte had asked for his release on the theory that the Quincy club had been disbanded, but the ruling was that Quincy's club had merely moved to Ottumwa, IA. Berte's "services" were awarded to Ottumwa. Also served as the player-manager of the Jacksonville Lunatics of the Central League and Kearney Kapitalists of the Nebraska State League - which are great team names.

The facegen that was there didn't look, to my eyes, much like the only photo we have of Harry, so I started anew...

[LansdowneSt]

"I believe the club has two or more crackerjack twirlers to help out Mercer. Cy Swaim made monkeys out of the hard-hitting Baltimore’s at the close of last season, and if he can be made to quicken his movements his improvement will be wonderful." - Local DC paper previewing the season on 12 February 1898

Here's Cy Swaim, making monkeys...

[LansdowneSt]

There were five Ganzel brothers, and the family was called the "First Family" of Michigan baseball. John and Charlie were in the majors, while Fred Ganzel played independent ball, Joe and George Ganzel played independent ball and in the minors.

The original facegen was okay, but I did it over anyway. Couldn't help myself from trying to improve it a bit...

[LansdowneSt]

John Davis "Brownie" Foreman (August 6, 1875 – October 10, 1926) was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played in the major leagues for the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Cincinnati Reds of the National League during 1895–1896. His older brother, Frank Foreman (nicknamed "Monkey"), was also a major league pitcher.

[LansdowneSt]

Boasting a .228/.310/.246 career slash line in 49 games for the then Chicago Orphans, here's Tufts University grad, Art Williams...

[LansdowneSt]

Bob Lawson pitched three years for the University of North Carolina (1897-1899) and was the first player from UNC to come to the majors.

He had a cup of coffee with the Boston Beaneaters in 1901. Before the 1902 season he jumped from Boston to the Baltimore Orioles only to get another cup of coffee. Although primarily a pitcher, he also played the oufield and third base.

He served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps during World War I and then returned to UNC where he coached and served as a trainer for myriad sports. His baseball prowess was so highly regarded that he became known as... the "Father of Basketball" at the University. Well, if you are going to be the father of basketball somewhere, UNC-Chapel Hill ain't a bad place to be so regarded.

EDIT: I found a better image of Bob Lawson via UNC. Here he is. My previous attempt is now the "before" and the revised is the "after" - each made from a different image. The old one was the best i could do with the grainy photo but the UNC pic made it a lot easier to get closer to him. Revised facegen posted in this edit. And thanks for the compliment, luckymann - but I'd much rather have good source material!

[luckymann]

Originally Posted by LansdowneSt

"I believe the club has two or more crackerjack twirlers to help out Mercer. Cy Swaim made monkeys out of the hard-hitting Baltimore’s at the close of last season, and if he can be made to quicken his movements his improvement will be wonderful." - Local DC paper previewing the season on 12 February 1898

Here's Cy Swaim, making monkeys...

Obviously who James Brown was singing about all those years later...

[luckymann]

Bud, all your work is great but what you are doing with these older guys with crap source material is extraordinary.

G