runningshoes presents: Photo Op

[runningshoes]

Just to let everyone know, this is not a funny caption thread. I would like the photos to speak for themselves.

Feel free to comment on them though or ask for player identifications.

Thanks

[SoxSon]

Do you have a photo?

Here's one.

[Seattle1]

Do you have a photo?

Here's the only one I took of the exterior of the stadium the one time I went.

[Richmond Hill Phoenix]

Yankee coach, Don Zimmer, attacking Pedro Marinez. (You could argue that it's the other way around...)

http://www.gothamist.com/images/2003_10_zimmer.jpg

[Elvis]

Casey Stengel:
http://www.ballparktour.com/Dodger_Stadium_Casey.jpg

[Elvis]

Winter sports time at Dodger Stadium

"Towering high above grandstand level at Dodger Stadium is a ski jump which will be featured in the International Ski Show, opening tomorrow. Run is 167 feet high, and world champion skiiers get up speed to takeoff."

Photo by Tom Courtney - Herald-Examiner Collection; Los Angeles Public Library - October 24, 1963.

http://www.ballparktour.com/Dodger_stadium_skijump.jpg

[Elvis]

L.A. County Supervisor Warren Dorn and Jackie Robinson, congratulate Dodger pitcher Sandy Koufax following 2-1 win over San Francisco Giants.

June 18, 1965.

http://www.ballparktour.com/Dodger_stadium_Jackie.jpg

[RedSoxVT92]

http://www.mapsites.net/gotham/webpages/justinspiegel/oldbaseballgame.jpg

[runningshoes]

Sounds like you want captions ;)

No.

I want comments on photos..feel free to have fun, but I dont want it turning into a joke...one that will last about one week before everyone gets bored to death and stops looking at the great photos i've collected.

And I certainly don't want it being hijacked like my "How did your team fare on the day you were born thread." ;)

[Richmond Hill Phoenix]

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A guy on my team, throwing as hard as he could. The second baseman (behind him) just booted an easy grounder, so the pitcher's angry. He yelled, and I could hear it from left field.

PS. Thanks to Runningshoes for resizing it for me.

[Elvis]

Sandy Koufax pitching to Mickey Mantle - World Series Game 4, October 6, 1963. Koufax won the game 2-1 to cap a 4-game sweep of the Yanks.

http://www.ballparktour.com/Dodger_Stadium_Angels.jpg

[Elvis]

Umpire Paul Pryor never misses a play, not even the one fan Norma Echevarra made for rookie sensation, Fernando Valenzuela in the ninth inning of another shutout perfomance. Norma spent the next several hours in the city jail.

April 28, 1981.

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics40/00054665.jpg

[Elvis]

Babe Ruth: Unknown date. Photo taken at Los Angeles' Wrigley Field.

[Elvis]

White Sox' Hank Majeskie and Marilyn Monroe. March 8, 1950

Los Angeles Public Library

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics42/00055882.jpg

[Elvis]

Former President Eisenhower and Bil Rigney - date unknown

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics42/00055880.jpg

[Elvis]

First and only picture of Babe Ruth and Jack Dempsey ever taken together. Seated on sofa from left to right: Jack Dempsey, Babe Ruth and Christy Walsh. Babe estimates he has autographed a million baseballs more or less. Jack is seen autographing a baseball for the first time in his life. The ball also bore the signature of John McGraw and was handed to Bernard Dempsey, the Champion's brother. At the right is Christy Walsh, syndicate manager for both Babe Ruth and Jack Kearns. Manager of the Champion.

1923

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics42/00055867.jpg

[Elvis]

Knocking Catcher Marty Polka's mask off (arrow) was Joe DiMaggio's ony "hit" of the day when he made his debut with Santa Ana Air Base, beating Fullerton J.C., 6 to 4.

March 26, 1943.

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics42/00055866.jpg

[Elvis]

Group photo, from left to right: Casey Stengel, Joe DiMaggio, Gen. William F. Dean, Bob Hope and Marilyn Monroe.

December 19, 1953.

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics42/00055779.jpg

[Elvis]

Wrigley Field, Los Angeles.

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics38/00053967.jpg

[Elvis]

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http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics38/00053956.jpg

[Elvis]

2 shots of Babe Ruth:
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics38/00053951.jpg

August 28, 1947

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics38/00053954.jpg

[Elvis]

October 7, 1963

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics38/00053504.jpg

[Elvis]

Maury Wills, heading for home:
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics37/00053498.jpg

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[Elvis]

Steve Garvey:
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics38/00053549.jpg

[Elvis]

Nolan Ryan - August 8, 1979

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics38/00053530.jpg

[Elvis]

Babe Ruth, Barnstorming: October 17, 1931

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics38/00053503.jpg

[Elvis]

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http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics37/00053463.jpg

[Elvis]

Casey Stengel:
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics37/00053353.jpg

[Elvis]

Casey Stengel:
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics35/00052070.jpg

[Elvis]

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http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics35/00052097.jpg

[Elvis]

Tommy LaSorda, getting a haircut:
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics40/00054663.jpg

[Elvis]

Dusty Baker - 1981

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics40/00054664.jpg

[Elvis]

Don Drysdale/Sandy Koufax:
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics35/00052223.jpg

[Elvis]

Tommy Lasorda:
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics35/00052153.jpg

[runningshoes]

Great Pics Elvis.

This is exactly how I had hoped this thread would go.
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Great Pics Elvis.

This is exactly how I had hoped this thread would go.

Thanks, and you as well. That's all for now.

All of the photos I posted are courtesy of the Los Angeles Public Library (http://www.lapl.org/)

[Elvis]

Roy Campanella shakes hands with Joe DiMaggio:
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics35/00052402.jpg

[Yankeebiscuitfan]

I don't know what the right guy is up to...

[Yankeebiscuitfan]

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[Yankeebiscuitfan]

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[Yankeebiscuitfan]

What is this fist doing in the outfield?

[E.Banks#14]

Toddler/Babe Ruth:
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[E.Banks#14]

Babe Ruth:
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[E.Banks#14]

Babe -------------------------------------------------------------- Cobb
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[E.Banks#14]

Dizzy and Paul Dean:

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[E.Banks#14]

Jean Dubuc - Slowball pitcher (Look at the size of his pitching arm)
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[Yankeebiscuitfan]

No comment...

[Elvis]

1943 LA Angels - Wrigley Field

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics35/00052318.jpg

[Elvis]

1939 LA Angels - Wrigley Field

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics35/00052317.jpg

[Elvis]

Babe on the DL - 1930

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics35/00052314.jpg

[Erik Bedard]

Is it just me, or does he have a bat coming out of his shoe?

EDIT: No, that's just the railing.

He's got his Dodgers cap next to him, so I don't think it's the Olympics.

[Richmond Hill Phoenix]

I tell you, its an all-star game from a few years back (ill edit later with which one). I remember the game vividly.

[CanadianKid]

Vlad Guerrero lost his bat after a swing and it hit him in the chest and knocked him over.

[Richmond Hill Phoenix]

Quote from Wikipedia:


Lasorda coached the 2001 All-Star Game as Third Base Coach. A batter [Vladdy Guererro] released his bat while swininging, hitting Lasorda, but he was fine. Barry Bonds later gave him a chest protector.

Here is an article about the incident: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/mlb/2001/allstar/news/2001/07/10/lasorda_ap/

[Chisox73]

Awesome thread here.:clapping
If you guys don't mind,I would like to make a contribution to this photo thread.

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/5695/0063a0001jd0.jpg
Albert Pujols laces a double into the corner against Milwaukee-July 21,2005.

[Bill Burgess]

Lou Gehrig flexes. I'm surprised how small Lou was. They always said he and Jimmy Foxx should have been linebackers. And why is his left forearm so much bigger than his right? Is that just the camera angle?

Source: One Hundred Years: New York Yankees: The Official Retrospective, ed. by Mark Vancil/Mark Mandrake, 2002, pp. 202.
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And why is his left forearm so much bigger than his right? Is that just the camera angle?

My left bicep is considerably larger than my right. I was told it is because I favour that arm when lifting, which in fact, I do.

[GiambiJuice]

Rogers Hornsby
http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Arena/5866/horns2.jpg

[GiambiJuice]

Ruth and Sisler

http://www.americans.net/BabeRuth_GeorgeSisler.jpg

[GiambiJuice]

Greatest one-two punch of all time

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/alumni/Magazine/images/Fall2001/Babe.jpg

[GiambiJuice]

The Babe arguing a called third strike

http://www.blackbetsy.com/imagefarm/rutharguescall.jpg

[GiambiJuice]

http://www.vintageball.com/files/Barnstorming_re.JPG

[GiambiJuice]

Lefty Grove and Mickey Cochrane in Japan

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/photo/photogallery/japan_history_standard/03.jpg

[GiambiJuice]

Hornsby, Hack Wilson, Simmons, Foxx at 1929 World Series

http://bss.sfsu.edu/tygiel/hist490/1920S/1920SPHOTOS/players/1929ws.jpg

[GiambiJuice]

Gehrig was wrong. I say Dimaggio was the "luckiest man on the face of the earth" :clapping

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bb/Dmm.jpg

[Brownie31]

Gehrig was wrong. I say Dimaggio was the "luckiest man on the face of the earth" :clapping

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bb/Dmm.jpg

Years ago the National Lampoon ran a picture of Marilyn Monroe
with the caption "Joe Di Maggio's greatest catch"!;)

Brownie31

[Bill Burgess]

In the middle is a less cropped version of the shot in post #84, of Al Simmons. These are all Al.

[Richmond Hill Phoenix]

Lefty Grove and Mickey Cochrane in Japan

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/photo/photogallery/japan_history_standard/03.jpg

Why such big gloves?

[Brownie31]

Cubs catcher Gabby Hartnett all ready for Spring Training 1926.
(Chicago Daily News photo)

Brownie31

[hudsonharden]

runnungshoes, elvis, william_burgess@usa.net, etc...

Do you have any pictures of Babe Ruth playing for the Boston Braves? I've seen a couple here and there, it would be nice to have them posted in this thread.

[Brownie31]

runnungshoes, elvis, william_burgess@usa.net, etc...

Do you have any pictures of Babe Ruth playing for the Boston Braves? I've seen a couple here and there, it would be nice to have them posted in this thread.

hudsonharden:

Here is one of Babe Ruth as a Boston Brave. Taken on April 23, 1935.

Brownie31

[Bill Burgess]

Source: Source: 150 Years of Baseball, 1989, pp. 367.

----------------------------------Hank Aaron, Atlanta Braves RF, 1968-71.

[AutographCollector]

Babe Ruth crowning Carl Hubbell the MVP of the 1936 season.
http://www.rogallery.com/_RG-Images/Photographs-howard-frank/Babe_Ruth-Carl_Hubbel.jpg

[Bill Burgess]

Mickey Mantle

Source: Sports Illustrated, June 22, 1964, pp. 33.

And when they said The Mick could fly to 1B, you thought that they were speaking figuratively!

[Bill Burgess]

One cool baseball card. Mickey Mantle, 1960, Topps.

Source: Baseball Cards of the Sixties: The Complete Topps Cards, 1960-1969, by Frank Slocum, 1994.

[Bill Burgess]

Hank Aaron multi-card, baseball card. --------------------------Hank Aaron multi-card, baseball card.

[Bill Burgess]

Reggie Jackson Baseball card (Upper Deck, 2001)-------------------Mickey Mantle Baseball Card.

[Bill Burgess]

Hank Aaron 1959 All-Star Team Baseball Card
(Bazooka, #561, as selected by The Sporting News) ------------Hank Aaron 1955 Topps Baseball Card.

[Elvis]

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/boxscore/Sandy_Koufax_No_Hitter.jpg

Los Angeles, California, May 11, 1963...10:15pm

[Bill Burgess]

I am seeking these photos of Hank Aaron in color. If anyone has seen either one, could you let me know where? Or post either one here? I would be so appreciative.

[Elvis]

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[Bill Burgess]

To all those following this photo thread:

Eric (Bench 5) has just sent me a photo resource beyond compare. Here's the link.

http://pro.corbis.com/default.aspx

This site is simply amazing. One simply types in the name of the player you're seeking and WOW! KaBoom! The photos have the clarity of original photos, not copies, and many are less cropped than I've ever seen before.

Don't forget to right-click on the photos to enlarge them, and use your cursor to draw down the line across the screen, to enlarge the viewing area.

I am now able to replace some of the shots on this archive with original, uncropped shots.

Here's a hint. When you first view the photos, they have a water mark impressed on them. But if you register, for free, the water mark is removed, and they are ready for down loading. Hope you guys check this out, cuz it's bangin & poppin.---Bill

[Knockahoma]

Thanks on that link WB. They look great and those pics are not your "typical" pics on yahoo and google. The old black and white shots are very impressive.

[Elvis]

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[Elvis]

Willie Mays/Casey Stengel:

[Williamsburg2599]

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Original caption: Half of Boston's pitching punch is Warren Spahn, seen in his pitching pose here for the 1948 National League Champs/Braves.-Corbis

[Williamsburg2599]

Original caption: Casey Stengel, the New York Yankees' new manager paid a visit to the Bronx today to get a look at the Yanks players and prospectors lifted on the blackboard he is shown scanning here. Stengel arrived from the west coast for conferences before the start of spring training. He was most recently manager of the Oakland team of the Pacific Coast League. Prior to that he was manager at Brooklyn from 1934 to 1936 and at Boston, with he braves from 1938 to 1943.(February 4, 1949)
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[tripledup22]

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/alumni/Magazine/images/Fall2001/Wife.jpg

Lou Gehrig - 1937 with wife Eleanor

this picture makes me sad because this is only 2 years before his farewell speech :(

[Williamsburg2599]

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[Elvis]

Ted Williams:

[Elvis]

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[Elvis]

Jackie Robinson/Willie Mays:

[Elvis]

Mickey Mantle:

[Elvis]

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[Elvis]

Babe Ruth coaches 3B: Brooklyn Dodgers: 1938.

[Williamsburg2599]

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[Elvis]

Roy Campanella/Tommy LaSorda:

[Williamsburg2599]

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New York Yankee's star Hideki Matsui meets up with "Sesame Street" very own Elmo and his new Japanese counterpart just prior to the launch of Major League Baseball's season in Tokyo, March 29, 2004. Elmo was in town for the announcement of a new Japanese co-production of the children's series that will begin airing on TV Tokyo in October. The 35th anniversary season of "Sesame Street" premieres on PBS in the US on April 5th.

[Williamsburg2599]

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St. Louis Browns' relief pitcher Leroy "Satchel" Paige, a star pitcher in the Negro Leagues for many years, relaxes in a new easy chair in the Browns' bullpen. Browns' president Bill Veeck bought the chair for Paige and placed it in the bullpen before a Browns-New York Yankees game in St. Louis. Paige became the first African American to pitch in the American League after signing with the Cleveland Indians in 1948. St. Louis, June 28, 1952.

[Williamsburg2599]

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Original caption: Wherever you go, the fans are the same, and those at Del Webb Field in Modesto are no exception. They still dome out to see the stars of the game. A little more avid than most perhaps, was a couple who hoisted their young daughter to the top of the fence--the better to see the star batters of the New York Yankees, Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle. The Yanks along with the Giants made the bus trip here to sharpen up their game in preparation for the 6th World Series tilt at San Francisco's Candlestick Park.

Source: Corbis.com

[Williamsburg2599]

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The Chicago White Sox first baseman Paul Konerko (2nd from R) collides with a fan while chasing a foul ball in the second inning of game three of the 2005 World Series against the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park.

Source: Corbis.com

[Bill Burgess]

Hank Aaron: Braves RF, 1957-65----------------------------------------------------------------------------1957-65--- BB Reference (http://www.baseball-reference.com/a/aaronha01.shtml)

[Bill Burgess]

Joe Jackson, White Sox OF:

[KevinWI]

Knocking Catcher Marty Polka's mask off (arrow) was Joe DiMaggio's ony "hit" of the day when he made his debut with Santa Ana Air Base, beating Fullerton J.C., 6 to 4.

March 26, 1943.

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics42/00055866.jpg

I used to do that ALL the time when I played baseball. Catchers constantly had to duck out of the way when I made contact with the ball.

[PJ-34]

I love this thread. Baseball is the most poetic and historic pastime in the world.

[PJ-34]

Sadaharu Oh

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics32/00050889.jpg

Baseball's real home run king.

[Williamsburg2599]

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20071026/capt.17a2e455d34042e988f28c616e6b64ec.blackhawks_b ruins_hockey_mamd108.jpg

A pair of hockey fans are surrounded by empty seats in the first period of an NHL hockey game against the Boston Bruins and the Chicago Blackhawks, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2007, in Boston. The game time overlapped with Game 2 of the baseball World Series between the Boston Red Sox and the Colorado Rockies also being played in Boston. The Bruins won their game 3-1.
(AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

[Bill Burgess]

Don't let a good thread die.

[NJMetfan4life]

Don't let a good thread die.

Here's my part. Look at the eyes of everone.

[oddsox1919]

Great shot -- it's from 1927 when Babe "played" for the Los Angeles Angels in the movie "Babe Comes Home." Other photos in the Babe Ruth photo thread.

[oddsox1919]

What year was this -- doesn't look like a Yankee uniform, does it?

[oddsox1919]

Babe would be gone less than 1 year after these photos... he looks pretty good here.

[oddsox1919]

looks like Albie Pearson. Am I right?