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09-01-2016, 02:45 PM | #29021 |
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Whitey Herzog with a Mets uniform
I found this in black and white and cleaned it up and colorized it. This must be from a spring training.
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09-01-2016, 03:12 PM | #29022 |
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Herzog was the Mets' third base coach in 1966.
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09-01-2016, 03:15 PM | #29023 |
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Jim Beauchamp 1963
Not a lot of the well-traveled pinch-hitter and later beloved coach and minor league manager in an Astros uniform. This clearly dates to 1965.
Thursday's Topps uploads (KC): 221-224 Jim Beauchamp; 225-226 Dante Bichette; 227-228 Steve Bilko; 229-230 Larry Biittner; 231-232 Doug Bird; 233-234 Dick Billings; 235-238 Jack Billingham; 239-240 Greg Biercevicz; 241-242 Joe Becker; 243-244 Rich Beck; 245-246 Howie Bedell; 247-250 Fred Beene; 251-252 Julio Becquer; 253-254 Rod Beck; 255-256 Jim Beattie; 257-260 Glenn Beckert; 261 Jim Holt; 262 Don Hood; 263-264 Joel Horlen; 265 Pat Jarvis; 266-267 Jeff James; 268 Cleo James; 269 Paul Jaeckel; 270 Steve Huntz; 271-272 Ron Hunt; 273 Terry Humphrey; 274 Terry Hughes; 275 Jesse Hudson; 276-277 Roy Howell; 278 Jim Howarth; 279 Larry Howard; 280 Bruce Howard. Last edited by Merkle923; 09-01-2016 at 07:38 PM. |
09-01-2016, 03:28 PM | #29024 |
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Jeff James 1968
Remember when I mentioned that during the 1967-68 player posing boycott Topps had to reach out to free lancers for photos of guys they had no images of but felt they had to have in the 1969 set? Thus the Reggie Jackson shot was actually taken by Louis Requena and the infamous Leo Garcia/Aurelio Rodriguez goof was made by the legendary J.D. McCarthy?
Well Topps has posted and will now sell one of these rare out-of-house images. It's a George Brace shot of rookie pitcher Jeff James, who Topps decided just had to be in the '69 set. They took his print and made their own negative out of it. Fittingly the shot is a little blurry: |
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and 239-240 Greg Biercevicz, Seattle minor leaguer 77-81, already posted by TV on JB244-45 Last edited by keonleafs; 09-01-2016 at 03:51 PM. |
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09-01-2016, 06:24 PM | #29026 |
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The original Whitey Herzog B&W Mets if anyone is interested
Black and White Herzog in Met Uni
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09-02-2016, 12:44 PM | #29028 |
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Seattle Pitcher photo
100% on King Felix and Julio Mateo best guess on Soriano and Fruto
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09-02-2016, 07:45 PM | #29030 |
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Bud Hardin 1952
Bud Hardin, 1952 Chicago Cubs. The image is sampled from a recently purchased photo and fills a slot on the UIN list.
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09-02-2016, 08:34 PM | #29031 |
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Holly Hollingshead 1872
From the team photo of the 1879 Washington Nationals.
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09-02-2016, 08:36 PM | #29032 |
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Oscar Bielaski 1872
From the team photo of the 1879 Washington Nationals. I'm not sure why he didn't bother to flip the backwards "N" on his uniform.
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09-02-2016, 08:37 PM | #29033 |
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Sam Trott 1880
From the team photo of the 1879 Washington Nationals.
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09-02-2016, 08:38 PM | #29034 |
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George Derby 1881
From the team photo of the 1879 Washington Nationals.
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09-02-2016, 08:39 PM | #29035 |
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Joe Ellick 1875
From the team photo of the 1879 Washington Nationals.
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Harry MacPherson 1944
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09-03-2016, 07:53 PM | #29038 |
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Red Hardy....NY Giants
Here is an alternative for Red Hardy
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Conlon Collection sold; court to sort claims
This is from the Arkansas Business online paper, which has been covering the John Rogers story since its onset.
This ran on August 29th: The famed Conlon Collection of early major league baseball images sold for nearly $1.8 million at auction on Saturday. The single sale of 7,462 glass-plate negatives produced by photographer Charles Conlon (1868-1945) was handled by Heritage Auctions in Dallas. About $1.5 million of the auction proceeds will be deposited in the court registry until a hearing before Pulaski County Circuit Judge Chris Piazza can sort out the competing claims by creditors. A hearing date is hoped for by year's end. "Lots of people, lots of conflicting claims," said Michael McAfee, court-appointed receiver for the former business assets of John Rogers. The identity of the Aug. 26 buyer is shrouded for now, but sources indicate that two of the three leading bidders intended to send the collection to the Baseball Hall of Fame. http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/arti...hn-rogers-debt "There's a very high probability that it's heading to Cooperstown, which is where it should be," McAfee said. The Conlon Collection that Rogers acquired in June 2010 numbered about 8,300 pieces. In a past interview, McAfee said he wasn't sure what happened to reduce the count to about 7,500 before he came aboard and inventoried assets. "Some of the Conlon plates seem to have evaporated," McAfee testified at a Jan. 20 court hearing. Last edited by Rainmaker; 09-03-2016 at 07:55 PM. |
09-03-2016, 08:35 PM | #29040 |
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Charlie Sands (1947 - 2016)
Charlie Sands, a reserve catcher for the Yankees, Pirates, Angels and A's, passed away on August 22. He was 68.
The stars simply did not align for Charlie Sands to be the player he might have been. But he played in the major leagues, was part of a World Series winning team, and left his mark on the game. Charlie was selected out of high school by the Orioles in the 21st round in 1965. The following year, he achieved some notoriety by catching all 29 innings of what was then the longest game in professional baseball history. The Yankees took the receiver in that year's Rule V draft, so Charlie spent all of 1967 with NY, gathering splinters and getting just one pinch at bat on the season (and striking out). Traded to Pittsburgh, Charlie served as the 3rd string catcher on the 1971 world champion Pirates. He got a single at bat in the Series, pinch hitting in game two (and struck out). Charlie spent most of 1972 in the minors, suffering through a number of nagging injuries of the type every catcher experiences. He suffered bruised ribs in a home plate collision, and endured numerous injuries to his thumb, hand and wrist. For the most part, he played through them. His reward? One September pinch at bat (not a hit, but not a strike out). In 1973, Charlie was traded to Detroit for Chris Zachary as spring training was coming to an end. A few weeks later, he was traded on to the Angels. He had to wait for September, again, to get a look at the major league level, but at least he got into 17 games and managed a .273 average. 1974 should have been Charlie's year. He hit .524 for the Halos in spring action. But Charlie suffered a knee injury (torn ligaments) blocking the plate in the final pre-season game. After missing a month, Charlie returned and was actually getting semi-regular playing time, though he was finding it hard to get into the hitting groove he'd had in the spring. The occasional power was encouraging, if not overwhelming. But then Charlie sustained several injuries to his throwing arm--particularly the elbow and shoulder--and he was back on the shelf for another month or so. He returned in September and hit .273 for the month, primarily as a designated hitter (he did not catch at all in September). In the Spring of 1975, the Angels released Charlie. He caught on with the A's, who released pinch runner Herb Washington to make room. He pinch hit in three games in early May (one walk, one hit, and one strikeout) before he was dispatched to Tuscon where he would play through 1976 without another trip to the majors. While with Tuscon, though, Charlie did have one more mark to leave on the game (one for which, as a Mets fan, I'm very thankful). His roommate was Skip Lockwood, who had by then failed in the major leagues twice--as an infielder and as a starting pitcher. When the Yankees released Skip in April 1975, his confidence was shot and he figured his career was over. Charlie got Skip to embrace the role of relief pitcher and suddenly Skip's career had new life. When I think of the best Mets closers of all-time, I don't think of John Franco or Armando Benitez (God, no) or Billy Wagner or even Jeurys Familia. I think of Tug McGraw, Jesse Orosco and Skip Lockwood. Just sayin'. After baseball, Charlie found success in real estate and opened a chain of restaurants called "Charley's" which are scattered throughout Virginia and North Carolina. Its possible that Charlie's career might have turned out differently but for the Rule V draft and injuries. Or he might just have been a quad-A hitter to begin with. But he did put up decent numbers in the minors. His career minor league average was .270, but, in Triple-A (where he spent 6 of his 8 minor league seasons), it was .283. He hit 87 minor league home runs--75 in Triple-A. And he drove in 336 runs in the minors (251 in AAA). Once upon a time, a good Charlie Sands image was hard to find. Not so anymore. The Topps Vault offers up good images of Charlie with Pittsburgh and California and a couple of OK images with the Yankees (wish the Yankees ones were a bit larger, but at least they're color). BS 417 - 426 (417 & 418 are NYY) BW 521 - 522 GH 388 HX 244 - 245 KA 119 - 122 That leaves us only pining for an Oakland A's image, which Merkle was kind enough to give us a few years back (you'll find it here). The color Yankees image below was posted to Baseball-Birthdays and was originally an offering from eBay seller brealdiamond. I've cropped and brightened it (and desaturated a tad). The B&W Pirates image was posted by the Baseball Hall of Fame on their Facebook page along with the notice of Charlie's passing. |
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