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I thought it would be fun if we all shared our favorite photograph of something baseball. Share two or three if you like. My favorite is the photo of Branca lying in grief after the Bobby Thompson homer in '51. Here it is:
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Now it is done. The story ends, and there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention. Only the utterly impossible, the inexpressibly fantastic can ever be plausible again.
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I like the picture after the SHRTW, with the Giants crowding the plate in the background, and in the foreground is Ralph Branca walking by Jackie Robinson towards the deepest part of the park in despair. Can't find it right now though. -
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I think the Branca Image is powerful. I also like the one of Mr. Ty Cobb sliding into third with that fire in his eyes.Johnny
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Not being much of a keyboard athlete, I don't know how to paste a picture from somewhere else, but my favorite is when Bill Veeck sent the midget, Eddie Gaedel up to bat for the Browns in a game back in 1951. The only reason we have the picture is that Bob Broeg, the sports writer from St. Louis Post-Dispatch was up late drinking with Veeck the previous evening. Veeck asked him if they were sending a photographer to cover the Browns-Tigers DH the next day. Broeg said no, generally not too much interest in the Browns, why make the guy work a Sunday? Veeck swore him to secrecy. told Broeg of his plans and so he called a Post photographer and told him to make sure he hung around for the 2nd game, when Gaedel came up to bat.It Might Be? It Could Be?? It Is!Comment
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Here ya go. Eddie made 100 bucks for that AB, or about $2.32 for every inch of height
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Fisk's body english would be a good one. Actually, Luis Gonzalez's WS-winning hit was sweet tooMythical SF Chronicle scouting report: "That Jeff runs like a deer. Unfortunately, he also hits AND throws like one." I am Venus DeMilo - NO ARM! I can play like a big leaguer, I can field like Luzinski, run like Lombardi. The secret to managing is keeping the ones who hate you away from the undecided ones. I am a triumph of quantity over quality. I'm almost useful, every village needs an idiot.
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Almost ashamed to admit this used to hang on my bedroom wall :grouchyComment
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This is of Speaker and Cobb. Not sure why but I really like this photo.Comment
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Probably for the same reason I do.Originally posted by tomservoJohnson and now Goligoski gone.
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Looks like Speaker is looking at the something quite intently and Cobb is staring the photographer down.Originally posted by tomservo"I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it."
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