Random Photo Colorizations and Cards

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Another Satch

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And one more.

Satchel Paige and Dizzy Dean.

[FatJack]

The late Dodger righthander. Not sure of where I found this image. I would have thought I got it here, but it didn't turn up in a site search. Possibly Baseball Birthdays or maybe a Mears auction. Too big to be an eBay photo. Anyway...

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Greg Jelks, a former Phillies player who became a baseball legend in Australia, died early Friday. According to the Perth Community News, Jelks was returning to Australia after visiting his elderly mother in Alabama when he fell asleep on the flight and could not be woken when the plane arrived in Sydney. He was 55. The cause of his death was unknown.

[zappa1]

Originally Posted by FatJack

The late Dodger righthander. Not sure of where I found this image. I would have thought I got it here, but it didn't turn up in a site search. Possibly Baseball Birthdays or maybe a Mears auction. Too big to be an eBay photo. Anyway...

I like the job you did on the eyes. Very nicely done.

[FatJack]

Proving once again that the picture you end up with is largely determined by the picture you start with...

Starting picture was kinda dark. Hard, using my methods to turn black to red. I used a number of base colors to keep the freckles evident and I was happy to give him teeth (that, alone, improves the picture immensely, IMO). And, lord knows, I hate doing pinstripes when you can't see the pinstripes on the original (actually, I hate doing pinstripes, period). But it is what it is.

[FatJack]

I pulled a larger version of the B&W off eBay, but they clipped the cap (I hate photo lobotomies) so I worked from the smaller one, which has been posted on the site by both bearman14 and, following Lehew's passing, by John of baseball-birthdays.

[baseball-birthdays.com]

Ray Berres played in the majors with the Dodgers, Pirates, Bees/Braves, and Giants... he spent 1937 in Kentucky before catching both ends of a season-ending doubleheader for the Pirates against the Reds on October 3. Most of my colorizations leave me feeling that I should've done better, but now and then one will strike my fancy...

[FatJack]

From a team issued B&W purchased off eBay.



I did miss a tiny piece of the lower left corner, but, for my purposes, that was going to be cropped out anyway. Also, the '79 orange was a little darker--almost red--but I'm a traditionalist and I like my Mets orange orange. All in all, I'm happy with it.

[FatJack]

Nobody's gonna care about this one but me. Paul was one of my first "favorite" minor league Mets. He passed away on April 19th and I did a career write-up on him on the minor league thread back then.

I asked for and looked for images of Paul (with the best of what was found in that earlier post). I did start to colorize the KU image. But then, sigh, I was going to have to get him into a Mets uniform, too. So, in the end, I went with the image I always had...the B&W large screen image from the Mets yearbook. I hate working with those kinds of images, but it wasn't really worse than the others and he was already in a Mets uni, more or less. Lots of crap I could be disappointed with on this one but, given the quality of the starting image, I'll take it. What the hell, I always wanted a Paul Womble baseball card. And my guess is this is the only one in existence. BTW, because of the cross-hatching you get with a screen capture of a large screened image (which has to do with the number and size of the "dots"--a "fine" screen is what you'd want), the card image is a scan of a print. And, for anyone who is wondering, the cap logo on the original is what the Mets used in the Instructional League.

[FatJack]

Bill Endicott passed away in November of 2016. Signed by the Cardinals in 1937, Bill was tearing up the minor leagues and was called up to the majors for a cup of coffee in September 1941. Unfortunately, he was called up by the draft board first.

Bill didn't get back to the states until 1946. The Cardinals kept him on the major league roster the entire season, but, as it turned out, Bill had broken his shoulder while in the Army and couldn't throw anymore. So he was used as a pinch hitter and got only 20 at bats for the entire season.

You might ask why the Cardinals would carry an outfielder who couldn't throw for an entire year. Well, the truth is that there was a law or regulation that the government had put in place at the outset of the war that said players on the major league 40 man roster at the time they began their service in the war effort were to be guaranteed a spot on the active roster upon their return. They could choose to go to the minors (for playing time or whatever), but that choice was theirs, not the club's. It was one of those occasions where the government leveraged the anti-trust exemption to get MLB to (pun intended) play ball.

As it happened, Bill had actually had a decent spring training and, though he knew his arm was sore, didn't realize his shoulder was broken until after the season began (an injury he aggravated crashing into the wall on a catch).

Come 1947, Bill was back in the minors. But it wasn't long before he concluded that the shoulder wasn't getting any better and, thanking the Cards for their patience with him, Bill retired.

This colorization is another example of the final product being largely determined by the quality of the beginning photo. Although a different example of this image has been posted on this site, this one came from eBay and I used it because it offered better contrast. Still, when I tried to color the birds on the bat, the result of the lighter bird looked ridiculous, causing me to choose to blend a photographed version of the uni front. I also used one of the GIMP filters to smooth out the roached facial features. Card size, it looks OK, but blowing it up larger it tend to look like a bad impressionistic painting or something. It is what it is.

[rlumpkin1@tampabay.rr.com]

Originally Posted by fatjack

nobody's gonna care about this one but me. Paul was one of my first "favorite" minor league mets. He passed away on april 19th and i did a career write-up on him on the minor league thread back then.

I asked for and looked for images of paul (with the best of what was found in that earlier post). I did start to colorize the ku image. But then, sigh, i was going to have to get him into a mets uniform, too. So, in the end, i went with the image i always had...the b&w large screen image from the mets yearbook. I hate working with those kinds of images, but it wasn't really worse than the others and he was already in a mets uni, more or less. Lots of crap i could be disappointed with on this one but, given the quality of the starting image, i'll take it. What the hell, i always wanted a paul womble baseball card. And my guess is this is the only one in existence. Btw, because of the cross-hatching you get with a screen capture of a large screened image (which has to do with the number and size of the "dots"--a "fine" screen is what you'd want), the card image is a scan of a print. And, for anyone who is wondering, the cap logo on the original is what the mets used in the instructional league.

love the work that you do on colorization and custom work. Very appreciative of the work you do.

[rlumpkin1@tampabay.rr.com]

would like to see this Archie Moore and Tim Grant Colorized if possible. Thanks

[krantzbucks]

Originally Posted by rlumpkin1@tampabay.rr.com

would like to see this Archie Moore and Tim Grant Colorized if possible. Thanks

Colorized

[rlumpkin1@tampabay.rr.com]

Originally Posted by krantzbucks

colorized

thanks so much, great work

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Gehrig, Cronin, Dickey, DiMaggio, Gehringer, Foxx, Greenberg
Foxx and Greenberg were reserves. The others started.

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My brother-in-law wanted this. Big Indians fan.

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sorry it's so big. should have made it smaller for posting.

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