Complete Universe Facegen Pack

[LansdowneSt]

Charlie French led off for the White Sox in the very first game played at the original Comiskey Park, on July 1, 1910. He played in 105 games for two Sox teams, Boston and Chicago, in 1909 and 1910, and then returned back to the minor leagues. After baseball, most of what he seems to have done is roast coffee. For 35 years, he was employed as a coffee roaster for the Kothe-Wells Bauer Company in Indianapolis. - SABR

Redid the facegen using the photo shown.

[LansdowneSt]

George Merritt was a two-way player in both the majors and the minors. In the majors, he had three starts for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1901, and won all three of them. He came back to pitch four more innings for the Pirates in 1903. He also appeared nine times in the outfield in 1901-1903, hitting .213, including a couple of games in 1902, when he did not pitch for the Bucs. - bRef Bullpen wiki

Redid the facegen.

[LansdowneSt]

Tom Stankard played two games for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1904. He was a big star in both baseball and football and by 1903 the Pirates wanted to sign him, but would not do so because he was going to play one more season on the Holy Cross varsity team.

I had no facegen for him and so made this one based on the bRef photo

[LansdowneSt]

If Marty O’Toole is remembered at all today, it is as one of baseball’s greatest flops–the “$22,500 Beauty” or “Lemon” the Pittsburgh Pirates paid a record price for in 1911. Truth to tell, O’Toole was well worth the price. Based on his minor league credentials, Marty could have been one of the game’s greatest pitching legends, but by the time Pittsburgh brought him to the major leagues at the age of twenty-two, pieces of his right arm were already strewn across minor league baseball diamonds from Massachusetts to Iowa. Countless pitchers have thrown out their arms long before reaching their potential, but few have done it in the meteoric style of Marty O’Toole. - SABR

Redid the facegen.

[LansdowneSt]

Jack McAleese began his career as a pitcher, and appeared in one game with the Chicago White Stockings in 1901 as a reliever. He pitched three innings, giving up seven hits and three runs. He then went to the minor leagues, where he was converted into a full-time outfielder. He did not return to the majors until 1909, when he served as the primary reserve outfielder for the St. Louis Browns. After batting just .213 in 85 games, he returned to the minors for a few years, retiring after the 1912 season. - Wikipedia

Redid the facegen.

[LansdowneSt]

Paddy O'Connor caught a handful of games every year for the Pirates from 1908-10. He finally got consistent playing time for the 1915 Federal League Pittsburgh Rebels where he put up a .228/.278/.283 slash line.

Redid the facegen. Some photos had rounder faces than others.

[LansdowneSt]

"Mr. Frank Leary stands all alone in the spitball class." - The Harrisburg Courier, June 23, 1905.

Frank “Damp Flinger” Leary had a major league career that lasted a total of 36
days with the Cincinnati Reds in the early part of the 1907 season. Two games, 8 IP and a 1.13 ERA. Less than five months later, the spitball artist would be dead from complications brought about by an appendicitis followed by several hours of general peritonitis. Leary was 26 years old at the time of his death. - diamonsinthedusk.com

Redid the facegen.

[actionjackson]

Leave for 12 days, and it's the 12 Days of Christmas!!! WOOO!!! Thanks LansdowneSt et al!!!

[LansdowneSt]

Action, there’s a whole second thread I started of ones no one has requested but that I had done anyway….

[actionjackson]

Originally Posted by LansdowneSt

Action, there’s a whole second thread I started of ones no one has requested but that I had done anyway….

Thank you. I'll have a poke around for it.

[LansdowneSt]

Pete Dowling’s four-year career with three big-league clubs from 1897 through 1901 produced a won-lost record of 39-64. He struggled with sobriety throughout his brief career - a career that was tragically cut short. His life ended at the age of 28 in a tragic train accident. On June 30, 1905, Dowling was on his way to La Grande, Oregon, where he had joined a semi-professional team. Dowling missed his train at Fox Lake station in Union County, and decided to walk along the tracks en route to the game. While walking on the track in Hot Lake, Oregon, Dowling was struck by an oncoming train which decapitated him.

Long after his death, in the 21st century Dowling finally achieved recognition for a historic achievement that had long gone unnoticed: throwing the first no-hitter in American League history, on June 30, 1901, with the Cleveland Blues. - SABR & Wikipedia

Redid the facegen from scratch...

[LansdowneSt]

What would a history of a season be without descriptions of the personalities of the manager and players as they made their way through the pressure-packed season? In the book "The Greatest Game Ever Played in Dixie": The Nashville Vols, Their 1908 Season, and the Championship Game", the author's succinct assessments would get a sports psychologist's seal of approval. Manager "Strawberry Bill" Bernhard possessed a strong character, was resolute, and admired by his players. His colorful players included the popular outfielder Doc Wiseman; speedy Harry (Deerfoot) Bay; team captain Pryor McElveen, also known as "Humpy"; and Gentleman Jake Daubert, a first baseman who later had an outstanding major league career primarily with the Brooklyn Dodgers. As a team rescued from mediocrity, the 1908 Vols fought hard against Southern Association opponents, and often among themselves, en route to making Nashville sports history. No small task given their pre-season descriptions as selfish, given to dissention, and having disruptive attitudes. These negative traits were all swept aside in the final game of the season when a glorious league championship was realized. - thefreelibrary.com

I don't know why he was called "Humpy". Less said the better, perhaps.

Redid the facegen. Two pictures, one with a wider face than the other.

[Amazin69]

So, what's up with my sim?

Just started May, 1982. Drew Macauley was NL Rookie of the Month for April, and Matlack took Pitcher of the Month in the AL. (It was going to be Danny Darwin, but the Red Sox beat him up on April 30th, so…) Detroit has been struggling, because a number of players aren't hitting (defending MVP Tony Armas is definitely NOT taking advantage of Tiger Stadium; he's been dropped to 9th in the order), but even with Jack Morris missing two months with elbow strain, the pitching is holding up. Led by Tom Seaver, who's so glad to get away from AstroTurf he's posted a 4-0 record and sub-2.00 ERA.

Yes, Tommy the Tiger has been GRRRRRRReat! (Sorry.)

Meanwhile, the Giants just waived Mike Tucker (pticher, not the OF of 10 years later), despite the fact that his only appearance this year was scoreless. Huh. IRL, Mike did well at AA Shreveport, stumbled in his first attempt for AAA Phoenix, but did better the next year, didn't get a call-up and then fell on his face when he was moved back to the bullpen. And so it goes.



I suppose Tucker's final flop in Phoenix in 1982 might have had something to do with his no longer taking the game seriously, judging by that final card…

Mike Norris is out for the year with a torn UCL. Ah, there's Billy Martin the Pitcher-Killer that A's fans knew; right on schedule. Billy, I love you, but maybe if you hadn't made Norris throw 550 IP over the past two seasons…?

[luckymann]

Let's be fair Amazin, hard to be too serious in that clown suit.

[LansdowneSt]

Not much to work with on ol' Mike Tucker. I ended up going to his BYU college yearbook photo (cropped out of the photo was Vance Law who sits next to him on his right) and trying to use that. Here's the best I could do...

[LansdowneSt]

Morris "Farmer" Steelman became one of the best sandlot baseball players in South Jersey in the 1890s. He went on to have a long career as a professional baseball player, then became a policeman in Camden, New Jersey. He primarily played as a catcher, although he did play some games in the outfield. His major league debut came on September 15, 1899 with the Louisville Colonels of the National League. he appeared in 4 games at catcher and hit .067. In 1901 he signed with the Brooklyn Superbas. After appearing 1 game with them, he was released. Later in '01 he played 27 games for the Philadelphia Athletics. He returned to the Athletics in 1902 and, after appearing in ten games, his major leaguer came to an end. After baseball, he joined the Camden, NJ Police Dept. - Camden NJ History website

That's the same facegen but colorized, features straightened and smoothed a bit to lose what was a line straight down the middle of the face that showed up darker once the purple was gone...

[LansdowneSt]

At 6-feet-5 and nearly 230 pounds, Larry McLean was a large presence and a sizable talent, and he did things in a big way – including getting into trouble. Owing largely to a lifelong battle with alcohol, McLean’s career was punctuated by repeated suspensions, occasional brawls, and periodic scrapes with the law. Still, he spanned 15 years in the major leagues, maintained a lifetime batting average of .262, and performed with distinction in his only World Series. McLean played his best baseball for Cincinnati, for whom he batted over .285 three times. Baseball historian Lee Allen compared him to a later Reds backstop: Like Ernie Lombardi, McLean was big and slow but could hit and throw. Though he frequently drove managers to distraction, he was a favorite with writers and fans wherever he went. - SABR

This is the same facegen reworked. I sacrificed some of the detail for a cleaner image. There was enough character in there that I felt the smoothing didn't detract.

[Amazin69]

So, what's up with the Red Sox? Well, they took 5 of 7 in their first home-and-home with my Rangers (grrr…) but overall, they're barely above .500. Larry Gura has stepped in at the front of the rotation, and Montefusco is okay (if not necessarily someone to Count on), but Ray Burris ain't gettin' it done, son (0-3, 4.97), even if all he's doing is replacing Torrez.

It also doesn't help that their big bullpen add, Tug McGraw, tore his shoulder before the end of April and is gone for the year. (It's been a rough year for ex-NY closers; Tony LaRussa got a great 1981 out of Sparky Lyle after I dumped him on the ChiSox so Corrales would have to use a more effective solution. This year, Sparky tore his UCL in spring training and will miss the whole season.) Good thing the Sox still have Rick Camp, but still…

At least it opens up a spot for…Randy Graham. IRL, Graham made nice progress through the Yankee chain, recording 22 saves with a 2.12 ERA at A Fort Lauderdale and AA Nashville in 1983. But the Yanks sent him back to AA (now in Albany) because they wanted him to boost his K/9. So Graham did, albeit his 17 saves now came with a 3.54 ERA. Still, it go him promoted to AAA Columbus, where he was moved into the rotation, saw his ERA shrink…but also his K-rate again. So even with the constant traffic on "the Columbus Shuttle", he never saw NY.

Instead, in 1988, Graham was shuttled off to Columbus GA, as he was dealt to the Astros chain. Despite another season of nice ERA and FIP (but inadequate K/9), he landed in Jacksonville at year's end, although he never pitched for the Jacksonville Expos. Still, no doubt, just the experience of waking up in Jacksonville sent him (understandably) screaming into the night, deciding to sell insurance (or something).

(Sorry, Jacksonville! I kid…mostly.)



And, on a different subject, what we've been truly waiting for…

[LansdowneSt]

Let us know who wins the showdown, Amazin'. Here's Randy Graham as a Yankee - as I Sox fan I don't trust him. What fate befell Bob Stanley? You also mentioned Danny Darwin in the previous post - be sure to get the redone facegen I did of him on the other thread. It was one of the first I posted.

[Amazin69]

I'll keep you informed. I don't have the game open atm, but I believe Stanley is still in the Boston rotation: Gura, Eck, Steamer, Burris (why??) and the Count.

(Should we mention how well that Ojeda kid is doing for Baltimore, or that the O's recently had a nice winning streak and are currently leading the division? To be fair, the trade for McGregor was perfectly fine…it was just not locking him up that was the mistake, IMO.

Although if it makes you feel better, McGregor is out for 3 weeks or so. And he had the WORST ERA in our rotation.

I mean…2.30??? What's up with that, Scott? Sheesh!)

(I'm obnoxious. I know that.)