Baseball Photo Trivia

[Angels#1Fan]

5 hours ago, fan_since79 said:

Bonus question:

Casey Stengel is the only person to have a bird fly out from under his cap

It has to do with New York.

 

 

[fan_since79]

Casey Stengel scoring the winning run on a walk-off inside the park home run in Game 1 of the 1923 World Series.

[fan_since79]

This bespectacled gentleman was said to have been the hardest throwing pitcher of all time. His fastball was estimated at 100-110 mph. Some thought he reached 120, but this was before the radar gun. Ted Williams once batted against him in spring training and said he could not see the ball, and that he never wanted to face him again. He blew out his arm during another spring game and never made it to the majors.

[Angels#1Fan]

That sounds like Steve Dalkowski?

Many people swear that "Smokey" Joe Wood was the hardest thrower in history which somewhat dispels the notion that players from his era only threw in the middle 80's. 

[fan_since79]

Dalkowski is right.

Joe Wood and Walter Johnson were probably the hardest throwers in the old days.

 

[Angels#1Fan]

I got that question because several days earlier I had read about the guy. Otherwise I'd never heard of him before.

People that saw him pitch claim he threw harder than anyone but who really knows.

[Angel Oracle]

I've heard of Dalkowski (a folk hero type), but didn't know that he was the answer to the question.

[fan_since79]

3 hours ago, Angels#1Fan said:

I got that question because several days earlier I had read about the guy. Otherwise I'd never heard of him before.

People that saw him pitch claim he threw harder than anyone but who really knows.

He definitely spooked Ted Williams who said he could not see any of his pitches, they were that fast.

[Angel Oracle]

A real life Sidd Finch?

[fan_since79]

Some members of the 1921 Yankees' starting lineup. Recognize anyone besides Ruth?

[Redondo]

Spoiler

 New York Yankees,  (l-R) Wally Pipp, Babe Ruth, Roger Peckinpaugh, Bob Meusel and Frank "Homerun" Baker

Great picture. Had to look it up. Not sure if it's right.

[fan_since79]

34 minutes ago, Redondo said:

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 New York Yankees,  (l-R) Wally Pipp, Babe Ruth, Roger Peckinpaugh, Bob Meusel and Frank "Homerun" Baker

Great picture. Had to look it up. Not sure if it's right.

It's right.

Ruth had one of the greatest offensive years ever in 1921.

59 home runs, 168 RBI, 177 runs scored (all-time record), 457 total bases (also an all-time record), and 119 extra-base hits, most ever.

.378/.512/.846

 

Edited March 26, 2017 by fan_since79

[Redondo]

1927 part of Murderer's Row. Can you recognize any of them?

Spoiler

Lou Gehrig, Tony Lazzeri, Mark Koenig, and Earle Combs.

 

[Redondo]

7 minutes ago, fan_since79 said:

It's right.

Ruth had one of the greatest offensive years ever in 1921.

59 home runs, 168 RBI, 177 runs scored (all-time record), 457 total bases (also an all-time record), and 119 extra-base hits, most ever.

.378/.512/.846

 

Amazing numbers. He was so good and to see those kind of numbers just let's you how far above the normal ballplayers he was.

[fan_since79]

7 minutes ago, Redondo said:

1927 part of Murderer's Row. Can you recognize any of them?

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Lou Gehrig, Tony Lazzeri, Mark Koenig, and Earle Combs.

 

I recognize Gehrig and Lazzeri, next to him.

I'm guessing one of the other two is Earle Combs.

[Angel Oracle]

Ruth was Bondsian, without the roids.

[Redondo]

10 hours ago, fan_since79 said:

I recognize Gehrig and Lazzeri, next to him.

I'm guessing one of the other two is Earle Combs.

Wow, that is really good. Combs is correct, only missing one.

[Homebrewer]

Mark Koenig I think next to Lazzeri.

Koenig, Lazzeri and Meusel were all California boys. Meusel was from LA and Lazzeri-Keoning both from San Francisco, where if I'm not mistaken they went to the same high school (not sure if it was at the same time, though)

 

[Redondo]

4 hours ago, Homebrewer said:

Mark Koenig I think next to Lazzeri.

Koenig, Lazzeri and Meusel were all California boys. Meusel was from LA and Lazzeri-Keoning both from San Francisco, where if I'm not mistaken they went to the same high school (not sure if it was at the same time, though)

 

Good job!

[fan_since79]

On 3/25/2017 at 4:39 PM, fan_since79 said:

Some members of the 1921 Yankees' starting lineup. Recognize anyone besides Ruth?

(L to R)  Wally Pipp, Babe Ruth, Roger Peckinpaugh, Bob Meusel, Home Run Baker

[fan_since79]

Something I found while looking for something else.

Ray Kelly, Babe Ruth's personal 'mascot'. One lucky kid.

 

It all began with a chance meeting of neighbors on the Upper West Side of Manhattan one day in 1921, when the Yankees were sharing the Polo Grounds with the Giants.

''I was having a catch with my father in a park along Riverside Drive and the Babe lived around the corner and stopped to watch,'' Mr. Kelly recalled. ''I was a pretty good player for age 3, and Babe told my dad: 'I'm taking Little Ray with me to the Polo Grounds tomorrow. He's going to be my mascot.' ''

Over the next decade, the boy sat alongside the Babe and the future Hall of Famers Lou Gehrig, Tony Lazzeri, Bill Dickey, Waite Hoyt, Herb Pennock and Manager Miller Huggins. He was a good-luck charm at many home games in the Polo Grounds and at Yankee Stadium and was also Ruth's guest on some road trips, sharing a hotel room with Eddie Bennett, the Yankees' adult bat boy. ''I was just there to sit on the bench and look cute,'' Mr. Kelly once said.

He was in the dugout at Yankee Stadium when it opened, on April 18, 1923, with Ruth hitting a three-run homer that lifted the Yankees to a 4-1 victory over the Boston Red Sox.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/14/sports/ray-kelly-83-babe-ruth-s-little-pal-dies.html

Edited March 27, 2017 by fan_since79

[fan_since79]

(from his NY Times obit)

Mr. Kelly always revered Ruth. As he put it: ''He was like a second father to me. He treated me like the son he never had. Babe was idolized by everyone, particularly kids. He treated children with a great deal of respect, and adults appreciated that.''

How did he think the Babe would have fared in the modern game? ''If he was alive today,'' Mr. Kelly told an interviewer in 1998, ''he'd hit 100 home runs.''

[fan_since79]

Born on this date, 150 years ago.

March 29, 1867.

[Homebrewer]

Cy Young.

[fan_since79]

Yep, in 1890. His first year in the majors.

Cy Young averaged 334 innings a year for 22 seasons.

749 complete games. Unreal.