Classic Baseball Photos

[fan_since79]

Overhead shot of Babe Ruth hitting one of his three home runs in Game 4 of the 1926 World Series.

[Homebrewer]

How the hell did they get that picture?

[ELEVEN]

On Thursday, September 29, 2016 at 3:06 PM, fan_since79 said:

Dan Casey, Charlie Bastian, and trainer (Philadelphia Quakers, 1886)

The earliest known case of forearm tightness.

 

Turns out it was just dehydration.

[ELEVEN]

On Friday, September 30, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Angel Oracle said:

Safe to say that this will never happen again (3 first ballot HOFs on the same team at age 40)?

yankees?

[ELEVEN]

1 hour ago, fan_since79 said:

Overhead shot of Babe Ruth hitting one of his three home runs in Game 4 of the 1926 World Series.

Damn I love this thread!

[fan_since79]

This is young Johnny Sylvester, to whom Babe made the promise to hit a home run in Game 4 of the Series. He hit three of them.

 

First home run was 395 feet to right field, and cleared the roof at Sportsman's Park.

Second home run to right-center also exited the park and smashed through a window of a car dealership, 515 feet from home plate.

Third home run cleared the center field bleachers (the first one ever to do so), by a good hundred feet. Estimated distance of that blast, 530 feet. The longest home run ever hit in a World Series.

 

[IEAngelsfan]

9 hours ago, fan_since79 said:

This is young Johnny Sylvester, to whom Babe made the promise to hit a home run in Game 4 of the Series. He hit three of them.

 

First home run was 395 feet to right field, and cleared the roof at Sportsman's Park.

Second home run to right-center also exited the park and smashed through a window of a car dealership, 515 feet from home plate.

Third home run cleared the center field bleachers (the first one ever to do so), by a good hundred feet. Estimated distance of that blast, 530 feet. The longest home run ever hit in a World Series.

 

Man, that kid had balls.

[Redondo]

This will be a classic one day

[fan_since79]

The final pitch of Don Larsen's perfect game. October 8, 1956. Exactly sixty years ago.

[fan_since79]

Babe Ruth crosses the plate after his "called shot" home run in the 5th inning of Game 3 of the 1932 World Series.

Lou Gehrig hit a home run on the next pitch from Charlie Root of the Cubs.

[Homebrewer]

8 hours ago, fan_since79 said:

The final pitch of Don Larsen's perfect game. October 8, 1956. Exactly sixty years ago.

A friend of mine has a ball signed by perfect game pitchers with the date under the name.

Don Larsen is on the sweet spot.

 

 

[rick99gtp]

On 9/29/2016 at 5:19 PM, fan_since79 said:

Deacon McGuire, Philadelphia Quakers. He played 26 seasons, mostly as a catcher, and his last game was in 1912 at the age of 48, for Detroit. 

McGuire holds the all-time record for caught stealing with 1,459 base runners thrown out.

 

[Vegas Halo Fan]

On 10/8/2016 at 1:00 PM, fan_since79 said:

The final pitch of Don Larsen's perfect game. October 8, 1956. Exactly sixty years ago.

The thing that made this so special, apart from the fact that it hasn't been done before or since, is that Larsen was a journeyman pitcher (pitched for seven different clubs, including the Orioles twice) who was untouchable for one special game. He has the distinction of having pitched for both the St. Louis Browns and the Houston Colt .45s. Over his career, he won 81 games in the big leagues and was ten games under .500 - not the kind of pitcher who you would expect this performance from. He made $13,000 pitching for the Yankees in 1956.

[fan_since79]

11 minutes ago, Vegas Halo Fan said:

The thing that made this so special, apart from the fact that it hasn't been done before or since, is that Larsen was a journeyman pitcher (pitched for seven different clubs, including the Orioles twice) who was untouchable for one special game. He has the distinction of having pitched for both the St. Louis Browns and the Houston Colt .45s. Over his career, he won 81 games in the big leagues and was ten games under .500 - not the kind of pitcher who you would expect this performance from. He made $13,000 pitching for the Yankees in 1956.

And he was 3-21 two seasons before his perfect game.

Of course, that was for a horrible Baltimore Orioles team that scored only 483 runs and lost 100 games in 1954.

[fan_since79]

Yogi Berra has just tagged out Granny Hamner of the Phillies in the 9th inning of Game 3 of the 1950 World Series. Yankees won the game 3-2 in the bottom of the 9th on a walk-off single by Jerry Coleman.

[Angel Oracle]

22 hours ago, fan_since79 said:

And he was 3-21 two seasons before his perfect game.

Of course, that was for a horrible Baltimore Orioles team that scored only 483 runs and lost 100 games in 1954.

Their first season (1954), after moving from St. Louis

The O's in fact were so bad back then, that in 1955 an 18 year-old 3B got 6 starts for the O's just a few months after being signed out of HS, some guy named Brooks Robinson.

[fan_since79]

Fifty-six years ago today.

[fan_since79]

Pirates' broadcaster Bob Prince interviews the team in the locker room immediately following Maz's blast. Priceless!

https://www.facebook.com/OddPittsburgh/videos/1809437539300113/

[Angel Oracle]

The baseball coach at Tustin HS when I was there in the early/mid 1970s, George Witt, made 3 appearances in the 1960 WS over 2.2 innings, giving up 0 runs but also allowing 7 base runners.

[fan_since79]

On this date in 2002: Adam Kennedy takes a curtain call after his third home run in Game 5 of the ALCS.

 

[Tank]

On 9/29/2016 at 11:31 AM, fan_since79 said:

62 years ago today, at the Polo Grounds...

 

Never hear anyone mention it, but that fly ball by Wertz must have been at least 450 feet. Theres also no warning track where Mays is.

[makepeac]

12 hours ago, Angel Oracle said:

The baseball coach at Tustin HS when I was there in the early/mid 1970s, George Witt, made 3 appearances in the 1960 WS over 2.2 innings, giving up 0 runs but also allowing 7 base runners.

George was my favorite Bio teacher at THS when I attended 73-77. That's his Topps card I use as my avatar since he passed a few years back.  I played ball at THS but George no longer coached by then (wish he had). I had his card and knew who he was and showed it to him one day after class. Cool guy, great man.

AO what year did you graduate? 

[yk9001]

14 hours ago, fan_since79 said:

On this date in 2002: Adam Kennedy takes a curtain call after his third home run in Game 5 of the ALCS.

 

Exactly 90 seconds before this photo was taken, Mike Scioscia was giving AK the bunt signal.
I was 150 feet from where this pic was taken.  What a day.

Nobody ever tell me that the Bottenfield-AK-Edmonds trade was a disaster.  One player in the 60 year history of the franchise has been ALCS MVP: Adam Kennedy

[Blarg]

The recent Dodgers elimination game at home there were still plenty of seats available. I don't think a single seat went unsold during the 2002 playoffs. 

[Homebrewer]

16 hours ago, fan_since79 said:

On this date in 2002: Adam Kennedy takes a curtain call after his third home run in Game 5 of the ALCS.

 

I was there for those games. Stayed at the Doubletree and so did the Twins. Met and talked with a lot of the players but the highpoint was meeting Kirby Puckett..not long before he passed away.