Baseball Photo Trivia

[fan_since79]

The number more accurately should have been 440.

[fan_since79]

Put a period before that number and it makes more sense.

Ted was impressed.

[fan_since79]

Either the question is too hard or this thread is running out of steam finally. Probably the latter.

The photo is from 1942 but the year in question is 1894.

 

Edited November 22, 2017 by fan_since79

[Tank]

that's ralston schmidt's grand-pappy showing off his record setting BA to ted williams.

[Angel Oracle]

I looked it up, had a feeling it was before 1900.     Should I give my answer?

[Tank]

yes, you should.

[Angel Oracle]

Hugh Duffy, in 1894

[fan_since79]

Duffy it is.

His 1894 batting average was revised upward to .440 years later by the baseball statisticians.

1894 season: .440 BA, 237 hits, 160 runs, 51 doubles, 17 triples, 18 HR, 145 RBI in 125 games.

 

[fan_since79]

He would grow up to become a legend.

[Stradling]

Vin Scully

[fan_since79]

27 minutes ago, Stradling said:

Vin Scully

Yep.

Vin turns 90 today. That's his First Communion photo from 1934.

[fan_since79]

Hard-throwing righthander, he was nicknamed the "Yankee Killer" after going 27-10 against the New York Yankees from 1955-61. Led the AL in wins in 1956.

He died yesterday at the age of 87.

[SlappyUtilityMIF]

Frank Lary!

 

But, where is Curly & Moe?........

[fan_since79]

Austin Knickerbocker: one half of a trivial, but interesting, moment in baseball history.

In 1947 the Philadelphia A's had two rookies recalled from the minors and put on their late season roster - Bill Hockenbury and Austin Knickerbocker. Both badly wanted to get in to a game (so they'd forever be recalled as big leaguers). Connie Mack, who was terrible with names (especially as he got older), called for a pinch runner late in the game. He said, "Ok Hockenbocker get on in there and run." Neither man knew who he wanted, but Knickerbocker beat Hockenbury out of the dugout and got in to the game. Hockenbury's name never appeared in a big league box score.

 

 

[Angel Oracle]

LOL, soooo that’s where the Rookie of the Year movie got the idea for butchering Henry Rowengartner’s name!

[fan_since79]

Charles "Victory" Faust, one of the worst players ever to don a major-league uniform, who helped the Giants win the 1911 and 1912 National League pennants. An improbable and fascinating story.

https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/d1ee8535

 

[fan_since79]

just to keep this on the first page...another interesting story of an obscure baseball player.

Hank Grampp, who appeared in only three major-league games in his career, but was considered one of the best ever batting practice pitchers. Day in and day out, he prepared his team's hitters for the game. His workday ended when the umpire yelled "Play Ball".

https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/acf72e29

[Blarg]

And when that umpire called "play ball" Ricky Nolasco took the mound and continued where Grampp left off.

[Angel Oracle]

16 hours ago, Blarg said:

And when that umpire called "play ball" Ricky Nolasco took the mound and continued where Grampp left off.

Imagine what Hackilton could have done even further in the 2009 ASG HR Derby, if Nolasco was pitching to him. 

[fan_since79]

I stumbled upon this today on a Facebook baseball page.

 

Les Mueller, who appeared in only 30 major-league games, but found immortality with his amazing performance on July 21, 1945.

19.2 innings pitched in a game that would end in a 24-inning 1-1 tie, called on account of darkness. No one has matched that record to this day, and arguably never will. He faced 74 batters and threw an estimated 370 pitches.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/PHA/PHA194507210.shtml

 

[fan_since79]

A bit of a twist on the usual baseball questions.

Of course, that's Ruth and Gehrig there, at a dinner in Chicago the night before a USC/Notre Dame football game in November, 1927.

The man in the middle was Babe Ruth's agent,  but who are the other four men in suits? They're all members of the College Football Hall of Fame.

AO should get some of these.

 

[Angel Oracle]

Two I can get for sure.    Pop Warner and Knute Rockne, and guessing that the other two are Howard Jones (USC coach in 1927) and John Heisman (legendary GA Tech coach and of course who's name is on THE trophy)   

[fan_since79]

10 minutes ago, Angel Oracle said:

Two I can get for sure.    Pop Warner and Knute Rockne, and guessing that the other two are Howard Jones (USC coach in 1927) and John Heisman (legendary GA Tech coach and of course who's name is on THE trophy)   

You got three of the four. Good job!

Men in suits, from left to right:

Pop Warner, Knute Rockne, Christy Walsh (Babe Ruth's agent), Howard Jones, and his brother Tad Jones (Yale football coach).

 

[fan_since79]

All-time greats who were VERY stingy on the mound.

 

[fan_since79]

If it will help, the two faced each other in a game in 1908. The pitcher on the right was brilliant that day, but the one on the left was otherworldly.

 

 

Edited March 15, 2018 by fan_since79