LansdowneSt's Facegen Checklist

[LansdowneSt]

Originally Posted by percolaten

still looks a bit squinty eyed as coaches even if morale's high, but oh well.

Morale being too high or low can affect it. Set to zero for all and see. But point taken, sometimes it is what it is...

[LansdowneSt]

Curt Flood, Gene Conley, and Danny Ainge had nothing on Baltimore native Peck Lerian, who challenged the reserve clause and earned fame on both the basketball court and the baseball diamond. Showing great promise as the leading member of the Philadelphia Phillies’ young receiving corps at the close of the 1920s, he also stood out as the starting guard for the lauded Hagerstown Elks basketball team many years before the founding of the NBA or its precursors. Ultimately forsaking his basketball career to play major-league baseball, he joined the Phillies for the launch of the 1928 season and progressed from a seldom-used bench warmer and occasional pinch hitter to become the team’s primary backstop by mid-summer. At the conclusion of the 1929 season, just as he was coming into his own, his life and career were tragically cut short by an out-of-control vehicle.

On Monday, October 21, 1929 (a week before the stock market crash) Peck attended a Redemptorist sermon at St. Martin’s Church in Baltimore. During the sermon, the preacher admonished attendees to live an honorable life, because no one knows the hour or day that the end may come. Following the service, Peck walked to the trolley stop at the corner of Fayette and Mount streets to catch a ride home. While he waited, a car driven by August Meyers nearly collided with a Hecht’s delivery truck, driven by Charles Lloyd. In an effort to avoid a collision, Lloyd swerved and lost control of his truck. The vehicle headed straight toward a group of children playing on the street. Given just a moment to act, Lloyd swerved again, missing the children. His truck jumped the curb, crashing through the trolley stop. Peck, without a moment to react, was caught as the truck plowed into a brick building.

The impact of the collision tore a hole in the building, and trapped Peck between the truck and crushed wall. It took over an hour to remove him from the accident site. A passing motorist rushed him to Franklin Square Hospital, where Peck was diagnosed with severe body bruises, internal injuries, and multiple broken bones. Peck succumbed to his injuries. He was 26.

After news of his death spread, those who knew Peck provided a clear picture of the player and the man. Giants manager McGraw called him “the future catching star of the National League,” while Rogers Hornsby said he was the top young catcher in the league. Catholic periodical The Ligourian mourned the loss of an exemplary role model, eulogizing Peck as the “perfect Catholic gentleman.” - SABR

Smoothed this one a lot. There were odd white splotches on the pic I chose around the mouth but the smoothing knocked it back at the expense of some detail. But it works. Anyway, as promised, luckymann, here's a better fg for the starting catcher in your Bucs save on the historical thread. Sad thing is, I know just where that old church and intersection are here in Baltimore.

[luckymann]

Thanks bud for both the FG and the as always fascinating - albeit, in this case tragic - historical backstory.

G

[LansdowneSt]

Pitcher Ed Dugan was the brother of Bill Dugan. He played 22 games for the Richmond Virginians of the American Association in 1884, then umpired one game in the same circuit in 1887. Ed's parents were immigrants from Ireland living in Brooklyn per census records. Ed and Bill formed a pitching battery when Ed was 19 and Bill, the Richmond catcher, was 22. Ed died in Brooklyn in 1895 at the age of 30. He was listed as a laborer, was single, and died of pulmonary phtisis. - bRef Bullpen wiki

All we had here to work with was this woodcutting. I tried to imagine, if I had described this person to a police sketch artist and gotten this result, who I'd have seen. I used the woodcutting for the facegen, applied a texture pack, found it too chiseled and modern-looking for a young 19th c. ballplayer and so smoothed it abit. I warped the chin and tried to align it and the other pieces as closely as I could to the sketch despite my instinct to normally fix such things. Not sure what the basis of the before was but I couldn't find an alternate picture anywhere. So, AESP, here's my stab at Bill's little brother... btw: I think we made the right call on there being no mustache. The more I look at his brother's mouth and actual mustache on your thread, I'm convinced the artist is extending the mouth and having shadows and textures elsewhere to define the cutting.

[AESP_pres]

Sure looks better now, can't wait to end the 19th century to get better player images to work with.

Thanks!

[LansdowneSt]

As a player on the great New York Yankees teams of the 1950s and later as a manager with five different major-league clubs, Billy Martin was known to be brash, bold, and fearless. He played the game hard and made no excuses for the way he handled himself on or off the field. Many people, including his off-and-on boss, George Steinbrenner, considered Martin a baseball genius for the intuitive way he managed his teams.
Asked about Martin’s prowess as a field general, former Yankees manager Casey Stengel, who had known Billy since his minor league days in Oakland, told The Sporting News in an interview printed on August 23, 1975: “He’s a good manager. He might be a little selfish about some things he does and he may think he knows more about baseball than anybody else and it wouldn’t surprise me if he was right.” Asked why he thought so highly of Martin as a player, Stengel replied, “If liking a kid who never let you down in the clutch is favoritism, then I plead guilty.” As difficult, irascible, and pugnacious as he was, Martin commanded respect as a manager. In 1987, in a poll of 600 former players, he ranked eighth among some heavyweights – behind Stengel, Joe McCarthy, Walter Alston, John McGraw, Connie Mack, Earl Weaver, and Al Lopez, and ahead of Whitey Herzog, Sparky Anderson, and Tommy Lasorda.

On August 10, 1986, the Yankees retired Martin’s jersey number 1 and dedicate a plaque with his likeness at Monument Park in Yankee Stadium. The plaque read, “There has never been a greater competitor than Billy.” Speaking at the dedication, Martin said with great emotion, “I may not have been the greatest Yankee to ever put on the uniform but I was the proudest.” During his tenure as a major-league manager, Martin’s off-field exploits were legendary; he got into fights with team officials, bar patrons, a cab driver, a marshmallow salesman, various fans, and two of his pitchers.

After leaving the Yankees in 1988, he remained on the team’s payroll as a special consultant. A short time later, rumors began to circulate that Billy would return to manage the Yankees in 1990. In the early evening hours of December 25, 1989, Martin’s pickup truck skidded off an icy road near his country home in Fenton, New York, and plummeted 300 feet down an embankment, flipping over and landing on its right side. The 61-year-old Martin was killed in the accident, and his good friend from his days in Detroit, Bill Reedy, was seriously injured. The two had been drinking at a local bar, and Martin allowed Reedy to drive his truck home that evening. The crash occurred mere feet from Martin's home driveway. - SABR

percolaten, this is being saved as his player fg ID (Historical Minors) so it could works as a player (no facial hair) but I tried to keep him at an age where he'd be okay as a manager for you - even without his iconic mustache.

[percolaten]

Fantastic as always, thank you!

Originally Posted by LansdowneSt

percolaten, this is being saved as his player fg ID (Historical Minors) so it could works as a player (no facial hair) but I tried to keep him at an age where he'd be okay as a manager for you - even without his iconic mustache.

[LansdowneSt]

Jake Virtue learned to play baseball in the open areas of Philadelphia. In 1889, he was signed to play with Detroit in the International League where he dazzled on the field with his aggressive fielding, strong throwing arm, daring base running, and solid hitting – he was the only Wolverine regular to clear .300. Virtue remained in Detroit in 1890, but the International League died and with a bunch of players jumping to the Player’s League, Virtue took a job playing first base with the Cleveland Spiders. This was a good young team, featuring a rookie pitcher named Cy Young that would help the Spiders be competitive for the first half of the 1890s. Virtue cleared .300 for the Spiders in his 62 games, adding 49 walks to just 15 strikeouts. Staying in Cleveland for 1891, he continued to grow – though his batting average fell with the influx of talent returning to the National League, he still hit .261, walked 75 times, drove in 72 runs, hit 14 triples, and fielded admirably. Before he even landed in Cleveland, people were singing the praises of his skills and efforts. “He will jump higher for a high ball, reach further for a wide ball, and cleanly pick up more ground thrown balls than any man who ever stood at first base in Recreation park,” wrote the sporting editor of the Detroit Free Press.

Toward the end of the 1892 season, a Boston batter hit a pop foul between home plate and first base. A player on the Boston bench called out to both the catcher and the first baseman to make the play – leading to a serious collision. Virtue was injured and much of the recklessness with which he played soon disappeared. He must have taken the change personally, because over time he was called out for not having the nerve many other players displayed on the field. His manager, Patsy Tebeau, once discussed this with Elmer Bates at Sporting Life. “Virtue is a valuable player and is hitting the ball hard. I only wish he thought as well of himself as I do of him,” Tebeau explained. “Timid players handicap themselves.”

Timid play – despite being able to back up anybody and still hitting fairly well – finally caught up with Jake Virtue. When the mound was moved back to 60′ 6″, a lot of hitters saw their batting averages jump. Virtue’s did not – he fell from .282 (but with 84 walks) to .265. He remained rather difficult to strike out – he fanned just 14 times in 378 at bats in 1893. In 1894, he was reduced to a limited utility role and played in just 29 games. The Spiders secretly relieved him of his duties, but didn’t announce this until after the season was over.

In December, 1894, Virtue signed with Louisville – and things were looking up. However, as March got started, a severe case of rheumatism possibly coupled with a minor stroke left Virtue nearly paralyzed on his right side. He didn’t travel with the team to spring training, and in six weeks, despite getting some of his basic physical ability back, he was summarily released by the Colonels. Two years later, he was hit with a second stroke that again left him paralyzed on the same right side of his body. - mightycaseybaseball.com

Contributing to the 19th c. facegen work being done...

[AESP_pres]

Thanks! I knew you'd be able to bring back his mustache

[hfield007]

Any chance you have a decent Chris Bosio?

The one I have is definitely him as a coach.

[LansdowneSt]

Brewers' Top 5 righty starters: McCalvy's take (mlb.com)

3. Chris Bosio, 1986-92
Key fact: 3.50 FIP is best in Brewers history for a right-handed pitcher (min. 500 innings).

By the Baseball-Reference measure of wins above replacement, Bosio owns two of the top eight seasons ever for a Brewers starter. And he was one of the team’s all-time competitors.

“I remember him coming into the dugout in Toronto,” said catcher-turned TV analyst Bill Schroeder. “We didn’t all have our own bat bags then. You would bring 3-4 bats on a trip, and that’s it. The big boys would have more. But I remember him coming in and grabbing two of my bats and he just destroyed them. He’d had a bad game, so he came in and grabbed anything. He probably figured I wasn’t going to use my bats, so he might as well beat them up. He didn’t take any crap from anyone.”

Bosio pitched as a swingman in his early years with the Brewers but was a mainstay of the rotation by 1989, going 49-35 with a 3.39 ERA in 118 starts over his final four years before departing for free agency along with Paul Molitor and Dan Plesac following the ’92 season. Only Plesac and Higuera have a better FIP in a Brewers uniform (min. 500 innings), and Bosio is in the Brewers’ all-time top 10 in complete games, shutouts, ERA, innings and strikeouts. After his time in Milwaukee, he went to Seattle where in 1993 he pitched a no-hitter against the Boston Red Sox.

Redid the facegen to something closer to my memory of him and based on the '89 Topps card. Smoothed it a bit as there were some sunburn issues at the top of his cheeks.

[hfield007]

that is perfection! i love the fun blurbs when you do these as well. Terrific as always.

[clarkemi1]

Hello LandsdowneSt,

Bernie Friberg had a pretty decent career but his facegen is bleh. Would you mind working your magic (again)?

[LansdowneSt]

Nevada State Journal May 4. 1920. page 5
YOUNGEST OF CUBS MAKES FANS NOTICE
Bernard Friberg is Nineteen and Married and is Making Distinct Hit

Chicago, May 3 - Introducing Bernard A. Frieberg. Club "cublet" and rookie infielder and outfielder of the Clan Mitchell. Despite the fact that he has lived but 19 years, this young fellow gives every promise of breaking into print on the sporting pages quite frequently this season, and for some seasons thereafter, for he has been officially adopted as a member of the Cub family. Just how close Frieberg came to starting his major league career in Boston he will perhaps never know. But the fact remains that he was gobbled up by a scout for the Cubs while playing with a Lynn (Mass.) semi-pro aggregation—copped right from under the nose of George Tailings, as it were, and that at a time when Stallings was getting ready to make him an offer. Bernard isn't particular where he plays on a ball club. He has formed no attachment for any one position and can perform equally well on the infield and in the garden. This makes him a rather valuable young Cub student to have on the bench, and Manager Mitchell means to devote a lot of time this summer prepping him for a regular job with the Cubs in the future. In addition to being a good infielder and a hard hitter, Frieberg is a sprinter, hurdler, and football player of note. He has grown to a height of six feet and he is brawny to match, and somewhat raw-boned. He was born in Manchester. N.H. August 18, 1899. He is a right-handed batsman and throws in the same way. In condition he weighs 178 pounds, and when he puts that 178 pounds behind a bat and the bat connects with a baseball—well that baseball takes a ride. Well say it does. Frieberg, though youthful, is married, and this is just one more incentive for him to make good with a van. Manager Mitchell believes he will.
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After six years with the Cubs, the Phillies took him on waivers in 1925. With the Phillies from June 1925 through 1932, Friberg averaged almost exactly 100 games per season. He hit .274, down from the .290 he’d hit for the Cubs, hitting rather poorly in 1927 and 1928 (.233 and .202), but rebounding with a .301 season in 1929 and his best season for average (.341) in 1930. It’s no surprise that manager Burt Shotton, whose tenure with the Phils almost paralleled Friberg’s, once called him “the most valuable man on our team.” After the 1929 season Friberg was named captain of the Phillies. After a couple of years hitting around .250, the Phillies released him in January 4, 1933. Two days later, the Boston Red Sox – perennially a last-place team in these years – signed him up for the final 17 games of his career. - SABR

Redid the facegen. The CU Facepack had a different, more recent fg of him than yours, clarkemi1, (or at least it was cleaned up and colorized some) but I still tried to make something between his Phillies picture and his more youthful Cubs self (the B&W pic).

[luckymann]

Nice! Old Bern is giving us great service at the Bucs as a backup cornerman. Thanks bud.

G


EDIT: Old brain got addled - Howard Freigau is whom I was referring to, we had Bernie a few seasons ago.

[clarkemi1]

Originally Posted by LansdowneSt

Nevada State Journal May 4. 1920. page 5
YOUNGEST OF CUBS MAKES FANS NOTICE
Bernard Friberg is Nineteen and Married and is Making Distinct Hit

Chicago, May 3 - Introducing Bernard A. Frieberg. Club "cublet" and rookie infielder and outfielder of the Clan Mitchell. Despite the fact that he has lived but 19 years, this young fellow gives every promise of breaking into print on the sporting pages quite frequently this season, and for some seasons thereafter, for he has been officially adopted as a member of the Cub family. Just how close Frieberg came to starting his major league career in Boston he will perhaps never know. But the fact remains that he was gobbled up by a scout for the Cubs while playing with a Lynn (Mass.) semi-pro aggregation—copped right from under the nose of George Tailings, as it were, and that at a time when Stallings was getting ready to make him an offer. Bernard isn't particular where he plays on a ball club. He has formed no attachment for any one position and can perform equally well on the infield and in the garden. This makes him a rather valuable young Cub student to have on the bench, and Manager Mitchell means to devote a lot of time this summer prepping him for a regular job with the Cubs in the future. In addition to being a good infielder and a hard hitter, Frieberg is a sprinter, hurdler, and football player of note. He has grown to a height of six feet and he is brawny to match, and somewhat raw-boned. He was born in Manchester. N.H. August 18, 1899. He is a right-handed batsman and throws in the same way. In condition he weighs 178 pounds, and when he puts that 178 pounds behind a bat and the bat connects with a baseball—well that baseball takes a ride. Well say it does. Frieberg, though youthful, is married, and this is just one more incentive for him to make good with a van. Manager Mitchell believes he will.
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After six years with the Cubs, the Phillies took him on waivers in 1925. With the Phillies from June 1925 through 1932, Friberg averaged almost exactly 100 games per season. He hit .274, down from the .290 he’d hit for the Cubs, hitting rather poorly in 1927 and 1928 (.233 and .202), but rebounding with a .301 season in 1929 and his best season for average (.341) in 1930. It’s no surprise that manager Burt Shotton, whose tenure with the Phils almost paralleled Friberg’s, once called him “the most valuable man on our team.” After the 1929 season Friberg was named captain of the Phillies. After a couple of years hitting around .250, the Phillies released him in January 4, 1933. Two days later, the Boston Red Sox – perennially a last-place team in these years – signed him up for the final 17 games of his career. - SABR

Redid the facegen. The CU Facepack had a different, more recent fg of him than yours, clarkemi1, (or at least it was cleaned up and colorized some) but I still tried to make something between his Phillies picture and his more youthful Cubs self (the B&W pic).

Thanks again for your work. I'm using the face pack from OOTP22 but I update as I go because I don't want any of the work you and others have done to be overwritten.


Just like the old version I had, the newer one has Bernie's face too wide. This one sure looks more like him.

[hfield007]

What do you have in the way of Dalton Jones of the Sox in the 60s? He currently looks very scary in my game haha

[LansdowneSt]

In groups of twos and threes at first and then, little by little, in larger groups, the fans rose and cheered for their hometown team. It spread throughout Fenway Park until virtually every one of the 35,000 fans had joined in the spontaneous standing ovation. The top of the ninth inning on October 12, 1967, was about to start. The score was 7-2; the St. Louis Cardinals were leading the Boston Red Sox in the seventh game of the World Series. The way Bob Gibson was pitching, there was little doubt about the final outcome, but the fans wanted to say “Thank You” to their Red Sox, who had brought so much joy and excitement in the wild ride that was the summer of 1967. Dalton Jones, who was getting ready to play third base, remembered it well nearly 40 years later. “Talk about bringing a tear to your eye,” Jones reminisced. One could still hear the emotion in his voice four decades removed. Mississippi native Dalton Jones, still two months shy of his 24th birthday, had played on baseball’s biggest stage, yes, played and thrived. - SABR

All told, Jones played nine years in the bigs, batting .235 with 548 and 41 HR (79 OPS+). After six years with the Red Sox, he went to Detroit for two and spent his final season with Texas. When he retired, his 81 pinch hits placed him second all-time among American League pinch-hitters.

Redid the facegen. Went back and forth on how to close his mouth, how round the cheeks ought to be, how narrow/wide the head... then I looked up the one in the pack and decided it was an improvement either way.

[LansdowneSt]

I'm not sure where FancySkunk is at the moment but given it is within an hour or so of the slated Public Beta for OOTP 23, I opened a MediaFire account to host my facegens. Of the 1,700 or so I've done, there are a little over 1,100 in the zip file. I've still got to quality check some of the early ones I did on this thread to be sure they meet my standard as I've raised it since I first began posting. The link is here and there is a readme.txt file explaining why it will unzip into three folders (MLB players, Minor League Players, non-MLB NeL players) as well as instructions on where to put the files in the FastSpring version (as that's what I use). I'll figure out Steam in the days ahead too. My Steam name is LansdowneSt, so that's at least convenient. Let me know if this file works for folks and if not, I'll relook at the MediaFire instructions.

FancySkunk, if you see this, this might be an easier way for me to send you ones I do for inclusion in the CU Facepack instead of downloading individual files. Anyway, Happy Public Beta Release Day, everyone!

https://www.mediafire.com/file/ox6gx..._Pack.zip/file

[luckymann]

Originally Posted by LansdowneSt

I'm not sure where FancySkunk is at the moment but given it is within an hour or so of the slated Public Beta for OOTP 23, I opened a MediaFire account to host my facegens. Of the 1,700 or so I've done, there are a little over 1,100 in the zip file. I've still got to quality check some of the early ones I did on this thread to be sure they meet my standard as I've raised it since I first began posting. The link is here and there is a readme.txt file explaining why it will unzip into three folders (MLB players, Minor League Players, non-MLB NeL players) as well as instructions on where to put the files in the FastSpring version (as that's what I use). I'll figure out Steam in the days ahead too. My Steam name is LansdowneSt, so that's at least convenient. Let me know if this file works for folks and if not, I'll relook at the MediaFire instructions.

FancySkunk, if you see this, this might be an easier way for me to send you ones I do for inclusion in the CU Facepack instead of downloading individual files. Anyway, Happy Public Beta Release Day, everyone!

https://www.mediafire.com/file/ox6gx..._Pack.zip/file

Thanks bud - you are a legend.