General Baseball Image Discussion

[Buccos]

Ummm ... Kurt Bevacqua! Errrr, Junior Ortiz! Rusty Torres???

Ok, fine, try Larry Littleton.

[Cusick]

Originally Posted by Buccos

Ummm ... Kurt Bevacqua! Errrr, Junior Ortiz! Rusty Torres???

Ok, fine, try Larry Littleton.

It does look like Larry Littleton, but the uniform number is strange. Littleton was on the Pirates' spring roster in 1979, but according to Baseball Digest that spring his uniform number was 37. Alberto Lois was wearing number 11. The previous two springs Littleton was not on the Pirates' roster, and Mario Mendoza was wearing #11. After 1979, Littleton was no longer in the Pirates' system.

[keonleafs]

Originally Posted by Buccos

Ummm ... Kurt Bevacqua! Errrr, Junior Ortiz! Rusty Torres???

Ok, fine, try Larry Littleton.

I think it's Littleton too. Found a nice clear picture of him during his stay with the Indians. The tip of his nose is quite particular, and looks the same on the Pirate's player's pic.

Thanks to both of you.

[SPORTSMEM817]

B&W from Lexifiles and I mocked one up as an A's colorized


http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sac...&pid=188772401

[SPORTSMEM817]

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/h...419-story.html

[SPORTSMEM817]

Photos are of Pytlak, Alvin Dark, Bill Butland and Ed Sanicki....did these a few years back ....

[SPORTSMEM817]

I just changed the background and added color

[Oriole1952]

Originally Posted by SPORTSMEM817

Photos are of Pytlak, Alvin Dark, Bill Butland and Ed Sanicki....did these a few years back ....

Wow, The Phillie looks a lot like Pete Rose.

[SPORTSMEM817]

Photo is from pinterest I also cleaned and mocked it up so that you could see his face...


http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sac...&pid=188811514

[SPORTSMEM817]

"Before Nelson was a coach and broadcaster, he was a second and third baseman for the Indians (1968-1969), Washington Senators (1970-1971), Texas Rangers (1972-1975) and Kansas City Royals (1976-1977) and made an American League All-Star team with the Rangers in 1973.

Nelson played in 140 games over his two years with the Indians, registering 69 hits in 312 at-bats with 25 runs batted in, 37 runs scored, 27 stolen bases and 26 walks.

A 10-year veteran in Major League Baseball, Nelson finished his career with a lifetime .244 batting average, .305 on-base, .312 slugging and .618 on-base plus slugging percentages over 813 games.

During his all-star season with the Rangers in 1973, Nelson hit .286 with 24 doubles, four triples, seven home runs, 48 RBI, 71 runs scored and 43 stolen bases with .325 on-base, .378 slugging and .703 on-base plus slugging percentages.

Following his playing career, Nelson spent 20 years as a coach/instructor for the Oakland Athletics, Montreal Expos, Indians and Milwaukee Brewers. Nelson was a coach with the Indians from 1992-1997, most notably serving as the first-base coach.

After his coaching days in Cleveland, Nelson was a radio broadcaster for the Indians from 1998-1999."


https://brewers.mlblogs.com/brewers-...n-82c8d5066a41

[SPORTSMEM817]

"John Duffie was up in the majors with the Los Angeles Dodgers in September 1967. He had been with the Albuquerque Dodgers that year, going 16-9 with a 2.40 ERA. His manager at Albuquerque was Duke Snider, and his teammates there included Charlie Hough, Willie Crawford and Ted Sizemore. Duffie led the Albuquerque pitching staff in wins.

He was not quite 22 when he made his major league debut. In 9 2/3 innings of work he had an ERA of 2.79, but lost both of his starts. He was a year younger than fellow pitcher Don Sutton and two years younger than Bill Singer.

John was born in Greenwood, SC in 1945. He was the only major leaguer born in South Carolina that year. He attended Brewton-Parker College in Georgia in 1965 and 1966, and was signed by Los Angeles as a free agent in 1966. That same summer, he went 13-8 for the Jamestown Dodgers in the New York-Penn League. The only other player from that team who eventually made the majors was Leon Everitt, who was up in 1969.

After John's successful season in 1967, he was back in the minors in 1968 and 1969 with the Spokane Indians, used primarily as a reliever".


http://www.ricketsonfuneralhome.com/...ie/#!/Obituary

[SPORTSMEM817]

"Alusik got two at-bats for the Tigers in 1958 and did not play in the big leagues again until 1961. In 1961, he had only 14 at-bats. In 1962, Alusik was traded to the Athletics and finally got substantial playing time. In 1962, he played in 92 games and had 11 home runs and 35 RBIs with a .270 batting average. In 1963, he played in 87 games, and 102 in 1964. After the 1964 season, he was traded to the San Francisco Giants, but never played for the major league Giants. Instead, he ended his career hitting .206 in 53 games for the Tacoma Giants.

Until Frank Thomas broke the record for home runs in consecutive games by an Athletics player, Alusik was one of three Athletics players who held the record of hitting home runs in five consecutive games". May he RIP


https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/my...pid=188832524&

[dennis_keith]

Alusik played on the losing side (Kansas City Athletics) in Early Wynn's 300h and final career victory and he made the third out of the fifth inning, allowing Wynn to get credit for the win by going the minimum five inning distance for a starter to earn a win. Alusik was the last batter Wynn faced that day, July 13, 1963.

[SPORTSMEM817]

Dodgers photo is from TNFOTO and the other one is an old Lexi files. Also the Pirate one is a mock up I did since I never found a pirate one to use. Below you will find his SABR page and below that his OBIT

https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/494fc517


http://www.wgog.com/marvin-eugene-rackley/

[dennis_keith]

Marv Rackley hit .317 in about 550 plate appearances over four years (1947-1950). One of the highest career batting averages for a marginal player ever.

[mesally67]

Page two of this thread, near the bottom, shows a great cool picture of the old Houston Colt .45 team in their required traveling suits. There are some stories found online and on youtube about the suits and the team being mistaken for a circus act or a western band because they had these matching suits.

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...=276359&page=2

I just thought y'all might like to see one that's for sale at auction - it belonged to the late Jim Umbricht, who died in 1964 and had the first jersey number retired by the Houston Astros.



(https://sports.ha.com/itm/baseball/e.../50002-50356.s)

Something else they've put up for auction that I thought you'd get a kick out of seeing is "the" Umbricht retired jersey #32 signed for him by most of the 1963 team while they were at spring training:



(https://sports.ha.com/itm/baseball/1.../50002-50357.s)


These have been privately held by the Umbricht family since Umbricht died after a hard-fought battle with cancer on April 8, 1964. Jim's brother, Ed, who had owned them since his parents passed, didn't want any publicity and didn't really let people know that he had these. They have now passed to Ed's children. The jersey and suit were rarely discussed, never celebrated, and have never been on public display. But they finally decided and hope that it will be better in the hands of someone who would appreciate them (or maybe even display them proudly) rather than keep them in protective storage with the family.

Anyway, the auctions close in about three weeks, and I wanted to put these out there so you could see them before they're gone into some private collection forever. I'm NOT posting to "market" these, but thought the pic of the jersey was cool.

If you have any questions, I'm in contact with the family and may be able to get some answers. Just send me a PM...

[mesally67]

Page two of this thread, near the bottom, shows a great cool picture of the old Houston Colt .45 team in their required traveling suits. There are some stories found online and on youtube about the suits and the team being mistaken for a circus act or a western band because they had these matching suits.

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...=276359&page=2

I just thought y'all might like to see one that's for sale at auction - it belonged to the late Jim Umbricht, who died in 1964 and had the first jersey number retired by the Houston Astros.



(https://sports.ha.com/itm/baseball/e.../50002-50356.s)

Something else the Umbricht family has put up for auction that I thought you might get a kick out of seeing is "the" Umbricht retired jersey #32 signed for him by most of the team while they were at spring training and given to him days before he passed in early 1964:



(https://sports.ha.com/itm/baseball/1.../50002-50357.s)

These have been privately held by the Umbricht family since Umbricht died after a hard-fought battle with cancer on April 8, 1964. Jim's brother, Ed, who had owned them since his parents passed, didn't want any publicity and didn't really let people know that he had these. They have now passed to Ed's children. They finally decided and hope that it will be better in the hands of someone who would appreciate them (or maybe even display them proudly) rather than keep them in protective storage with the family.

Anyway, the auctions close in about three weeks, and I wanted to put these out there so you could see them before they're gone into some private collection forever. I'm NOT posting to "market" these, but thought the pics were cool.

If you have any questions, I'm a friend of the family and in contact with them and may be able to get some answers. Just send me a PM...

[SPORTSMEM817]

He pitched in one game for the Tigers in the 1962 season, but that was the only MLB game the left-hander pitched in after a blood clot developed in his shoulder. May he now RIP


http://www.news-gazette.com/sports/i...sses-away.html

[SPORTSMEM817]

http://www.masslive.com/sports/2018/..._ace_pitc.html

He signed with the San Francisco Giants right after high school. As a bonus player, he spent the 1963 season in the big leagues on a team featuring future Hall of Famers Willie Mays, Juan Marichal, Willie McCovey, Orlando Cepeda and Gaylord Perry.

In 1964, he pitched for Triple A Tacoma, leading the league with 220 strikeouts in 223 innings. He had another solid season with Tacoma in 1965, and was told by management that he would have a shot at the big league rotation in 1966 spring training. However, his career was derailed by a shoulder injury incurred while he was serving an Army hitch in the winter of '66. He was never the same pitcher after that, but he did stay in pro ball through 1967.

[dennis_keith]

Joe Adcock was a slugging first baseman who hammered 336 home runs in a 17 year major leagues career (1950-1966) where he played in just under 2,000 games. He's forgotten by many today, but Adcock was famous for his prodigious blasts back in his prime, particularly in his days with the Milwaukee Braves (1953-1962). On April 29, 1953 he hit a home run to dead center field in the Polo Grounds off NY Giants pitcher Jim Hearn. It was the first in the history of the park to go over the wall at dead center's 483 foot mark. Then on July 31, 1954 at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn off five Brooklyn Dodgers hurlers including the likes of frequent all-stars Don Newcombe, Clem Labine and Johnny Podres, Adcock had a 5 for 5 day, with 7 RBI on four home runs and a double. His 18 total bases for one game set a new MLB record. Competition was so strong at first base back during those days that Adcock only managed to make one National League all-star team. (1960).
He's shown here flashing the okay sign after his big record-setting day at Ebbets Field in 1954.