Complete Universe Facegen Pack

[luckymann]

Another one from the babe save please bud

Johnny Mokan 1921-27

Thanks

G

[LansdowneSt]

Johnny Mokan played seven years in the majors and six in the minors. In his best major league season, 1925, he hit .330 and slugged .488 for the 1925 Philadelphia Phillies. He also hit over .300 in 1923 and 1926 in the majors. All told he slashed .291/.364/.409 for a.773 OPS in more than 2,200 PA. - bRef

lickymann, I used the same facegen that was there and just went to the best source file I could for a face. I extended the nose, chin, narrowed the face, as well as added some color to make it more representative of him as best I could. If I could get those ears sticking out for ya, I would...

[LansdowneSt]

bRef Bullpen wiki says it best: "Gus Krock was Mark 'the Bird' Fidrych of his time."

He had a big year as a 22-year-old rookie in 1888 for the Chicago White Stockings, going 25-14 on the second-place team and pitching 339 2/3 innings with an ERA of 2.44. He may have worn out his arm, because he was not able to pitch effectively again in the majors.

Redid the facegen based on the side view one but used the straight-on pink one to realign some of the resulting facial proportions.

[LansdowneSt]

The 1904 Washington Senators finished 55.5 games behind in the AL, so it's not fair to Albert "Beany" Jacobson ("Jake" to his friends) to say he did his part by going 5-23.

The more interesting parts of his SABR bio involve his wife who traveled with the team and made friendly with Roosevelt and Taft at the ballpark box seats. Here's my favorite story of hers: "Mrs. Jacobson talked with a reporter about some of the zealous female fans who brought flowers and candy to the team hotel. “Some of them were most persistent,” she said. “They’d call our hotel room and ask to speak to Jake. I’d tell them Jake wasn’t in and then add, sarcastically, ‘It’s Mrs. Jacobson speaking.’ ‘Oh, that’s all right,’ they’d reply. ‘Just tell him to call my number when he comes in.’"

I had no facegen in my pack, so this one is new for me...

[LansdowneSt]

Gus Dundon was acquired by the White Sox in 1904. He played well defensively, leading the league's second basemen in fielding percentage in 1904 and 1905. However, Dundon failed to hit in the majors. In early 1906, he was batting just .135 when he lost his spot in the starting lineup. Chicago won the American League pennant that year, but Dundon did not appear in the 1906 World Series. He played his last major league game on October 7. - Wikipedia

I didn't have this one in my pack, so this is also a new one for me, so no before picture.

[LansdowneSt]

Pete Noonan played 162 games in the majors, split among three different teams during the dead-ball era. This results in a delightful symmetry in bRef's total stats and the 162-game average line below it Not to be confused with young Danny Noonan, the renowned caddy/golfer in Caddyshack...

Redid the facegen

[LansdowneSt]

"As to fielding . . . second baseman George Magoon stands head and shoulders above the other second basemen." - Sporting Life of October 6, 1900

George Magoon’s fielding abilities were his ticket to the big leagues. In his first year in the bigs in 1898, he played in 93 games... and batted a disappointing .224 … but was rock-solid in the field. He undoubtedly would have continued to call Brooklyn home were it not for a heavy dose of what could only be termed intra-club collusion. Great Baltimore Orioles were shipped to Brooklyn and players like Magoon (57 OPS+) went to soon-to-be defunct Baltimore.

Redid the facegen from the same picture.

[luckymann]

Noonan and Magoon could almost be brothers from those BBRef pics...

[LansdowneSt]

Yes, but neither has any texture packs or anything that would drive the facegen to be similar. They just look similar as a starting point. I like to compare the before and afters as they definitely came from the same pictures. Noonan isn't bloated and dead though and Magoon hasn't just peered into the Lost Ark pending a full-on melting...

[luckymann]

Originally Posted by LansdowneSt

Yes, but neither has any texture packs or anything that would drive the facegen to be similar. They just look similar as a starting point. I like to compare the before and afters as they definitely came from the same pictures. Noonan isn't bloated and dead though and Magoon hasn't just peered into the Lost Ark pending a full-on melting...

hahahahaha true dat

[LansdowneSt]

With the dog days of August 1904 having descended on St. Louis and the Browns well back in the American League standings, manager Jimmy McAleer was looking for something to maintain fan interest in his club. To that end, he placed two local favorites from the semipro St. Louis Trolley League on the Browns roster: teenager Art Bader and 20-year-old Pat Hynes. The youngsters, alas, were not major-league material, and neither Bader nor Hynes would play another big-league game after his 1904 audition. But the lives of the two make an interesting study in contrast, nonetheless. Bader developed into a competent high minor-league outfielder, received his law degree in 1910, and for the next 50 years, he devoted himself to the civic life of St. Louis, serving as an assistant city attorney, circuit-court judge, and city excise commissioner. Pat Hynes' life took a more tragic turn.

With his bags packed and ready to set off for spring training with the Brewers, Pat and a friend began bar-hopping on the evening of Monday, March 11, 1907. At about 2:30 the following morning, the by-now-intoxicated pair entered Harry Grover’s saloon on Easton Avenue, where Hynes ordered beers for himself and his friend. When bartender Louis Richardson refused to consider the beers on the house, Hynes became angry, throwing a pretzel bowl and then a spice holder at Richardson. He also purportedly struck the barkeep in the face with a mop. When Hynes then attempted to go behind the bar, Richardson uncovered a pistol and fired twice. One bullet missed. The other mortally wounded Hynes. Pat Hynes had died on his birthday, less than three hours into his 23rd year. - SABR bio

Two pictures were available. It looks like the old one used the grainier bRef one whereas I made a new one from the picture (far right) in the paper following his death.

[LansdowneSt]

Wikipedia succulently summarizes it: Walter Holke was a first baseman in Major League Baseball. He played for the New York Giants, Boston Braves, Philadelphia Phillies, and Cincinnati Reds. Holke holds the record for the most put-outs by an infielder in a game, with 46 during a 26-inning game between the Boston Braves and the Brooklyn Dodgers on May 1, 1920.

When I first saw the old facegen I simply colorized it... but every picture out there on the internet showed a face like the one I ended up recreating from scratch. If you love the character of the old face, I posted that file too even though I'll be using the new one (holke-001wal.fg).

[luckymann]

Originally Posted by LansdowneSt

Wikipedia succulently summarizes it: Walter Holke was a first baseman in Major League Baseball. He played for the New York Giants, Boston Braves, Philadelphia Phillies, and Cincinnati Reds. Holke holds the record for the most put-outs by an infielder in a game, with 46 during a 26-inning game between the Boston Braves and the Brooklyn Dodgers on May 1, 1920.

When I first saw the old facegen I simply colorized it... but every picture out there on the internet showed a face like the one I ended up recreating from scratch. If you love the character of the old face, I posted that file too even though I'll be using the new one (holke-001wal.fg).

From memory, the starters pitched that whole game. Yep, here we go... And looky there's Mr Oeschger.

May 1: the Brooklyn Robins and Boston Braves play a 26-inning game (the longest game in history by innings, although it only takes three hours and 50 minutes) only for it to end in a tie and not count in the standings. Both starters, the Robins’ Leon Cadore and the Braves’ Joe Oeschger pitch all 26 innings.

[luckymann]

Couple more randoms for you bud:

Cinders O'Brien 1888-91
Johnny Mitchell 1921-25

Thanks

G

[Amazin69]

Art Raubolt slogged through the Tigers' system for six years, mostly at A-ball. When he finally made AA Glens Falls at the end of 1987, he posted a nice 2.33 ERA in 5 games (4 starts).

But that was the end of the line. I don't know if he gave up or the Tigers pulled the plug. So why him?

Because I'm slogging through the final rounds of the draft, and I'm so sick of everybody left just being someone who had one week in Rookie ball and the AI over-rating them off of that. So to find Art, with a legitimate career, in the 42nd round IMO deserves commemoration. Enjoy.

[LansdowneSt]

Art Raubolt, when all is said and done, has a very small pixelated face of assorted colors Here's the raw image imported in and here's one with features kept but straightened, otherwise cleaned-up and colorized. I think he had a mustache too. I believe he passed away last year as there was an obit with the same name and age in Lakeland. No pictures to compare to. Here's hoping his second incarnation in your sim cracks the bigs...

[Amazin69]

Yes, far better the second Raubolt than the "goth vampire" look. Although that might be intimidating on the mound, it's true.

(Sorry to hear of Art's passing on, though.)

So, to paraphrase Oklahoma, is everything up to date in Kansas City? Now that the draft is over and the first rush of free agency is winding down, let's see.

With the Royals having only finished four games out (89-73) despite #5 taking his talents to Three Rivers, they've had an active off-season. They've brought back Reggie Jackson from the big Apple, and signed Willie Randolph as well. I don't know how suited Reggie will be to Royals Stadium (nor Willie Wilson, whom Steinbrenner signed in revenge, in the Bronx), but Randolph should fill the 2B hole, and form a nice Keystone combo with young SS Tom Herr. After all, Mike Barnes could only manage a .165 average after he was brought in from Pittsburgh last summer.

(The Royals traded Barnes to Cleveland, prompting Ken Barton, Gary Hinson, Mike Bucci and the Tribe fans to ask "why?" as Barnes hardly seems an upgrade. Intriguingly, they got Joe Charboneau in return, fresh of his standard '81 sophomore slump. Is KC the cure? We'll see.)

On the mound, the Royals cast loose of the Count, since John Montefusco was mediocre for them. But John Candelaria was an ace, Tom Candiotti was nearly invincible once he got off the DL, and the likes of Rick Waits, Attlee Hammaker and Mike Flanagan filled out the staff nicely. Which makes it a bit odd that they went out and signed Larry Christenson (who seemed to have used a certain Metroplex-area club to drive his price up, grrr…) and John Denny, but the mound corps will be bulging with familiar faces, it appears.

Except one…



Meet Mike Morley. KC's #2 pick in 1977 (Eisenhower HS in Saginaw MI), the blonde lefty zipped through the lower minors and was on the spring roster in 1980. Sent to AAA Omaha, he continued to pitch well, until an arm injury derailed him, and he never made it any farther. (He was an NRI in 1982, but didn't stick.)

In my version of 1982, he looks an early favorite to claim that last bullpen spot. Unless the Royals sign Steve Carlton, or something.

(Thanks to the Photopack thread for the pics and background info.)

[LansdowneSt]

Both the Candyman Candelaria and Tom Candiotti - who I suppose might have had a "Candyman" nickname too - have been great in my sim for the Pirates. Still can't believe your simmed Royals dissed Frank White so hard.

Here's your 25th man, last arm in the bullpen, Mike Morley. The straight import of the facegen made him look like he was acne-ridden and crying out it terrible pain, so I did two things - smoothed him out and closed his lips a little and that seems to have helped him. Now he just looks perpetually nervous - as he should be being the last man on the roster. Any additional tweaks I felt would have robbed him of him-being-him, if you take my meaning.

The photoback thread is pretty great, isn't it

[luckymann]

A couple more from the Babe era please bud:

Garland Braxton (1921-33)

Frank Welch (1919-27)

And one from the Footnote League I'm sure you'd already have a copy of is Glenn Hubbard (1978-89)

Thank you sir.

G

[Amazin69]

Perhaps Morley was in pain from the acne? Thanks for fixing that.

KC did sign another FA…but it was Jose Cruz, so Morley still has a job. That's a nice OF the Royals have (Cruz, Amos Otis, Reggie), but it's got to be getting creaky.

Greg Cochran was the A's #2 pick in 1975 (Arizona State), and made good progress through the ranks until the Yankees, desperate for pitching help after their 1978 injuries, bought him for $100,000 in February of 1979. (The Athletics were desperate for cash in those Final Days of Finley, so it worked out.) Two good years at Columbus followed, but then he must have been injured at the start of 1981, since his 5 starts that year were horrible, and his '82 form was even worse. And that was that. His only taste of the bigs would be vicariously, via brother-in-law (and fellow Sun Devil) Floyd Bannister

In the sim, he's avoided that fate by not even being in Columbus at the start of 1981; the A's had taken him back in the Rule V draft the previous winter, and gave him three months up top before returning him at the end of June. And while his form as a Clipper still sucked (oddly, if there was no injury; you'd think the AI would hew to his 1979 or so numbers…), he was healthy enough to be signed as a minor league FA by the Mets.

Who are desperate for…anybody, really. Shea's a ghost town with everybody leaving. Even Ray Burris got a job with the Red Sox. So Cochran has slotted in as the #5 starter…let's see if he can keep his place.