Baseball Photo Trivia

[fan_since79]

Ted Williams in the dugout before his first official major league game. April 20, 1939 against the Yankees in the Bronx.

He would get one hit in his debut, a double. Williams hit .449 on Opening Day games in his career, and had at least one hit in every one of them.

Edited April 3, 2017 by fan_since79

[yk9001]

41 minutes ago, fan_since79 said:

Ted Williams in the dugout before his first official major league game. April 20, 1939 against the Yankees in the Bronx.

He would get one hit in his debut, a double. Williams hit .449 on Opening Day games in his career, and had at least one hit in every one of them.

Looks like the new yankee stadium as far as the empty box seats.

[fan_since79]

1962 Angels at Spring Training. Who are they?

[Angel Oracle]

Only ones I can guess are 3rd from left (Leon Wagner) and 5th from left (Steve Bilko)?

[Angels#1Fan]

4 hours ago, fan_since79 said:

1962 Angels at Spring Training. Who are they?

This photo is right up my geezer alley.

L to R Ken Hunt, Lee Thomas, Leon Wagner, Earl Averill, and Bilko.

[fan_since79]

Earl Averill's father was Earl, Sr. who is a member of the Hall of Fame.

 

[fan_since79]

Ken Hunt was the stepfather of Butch Patrick, whose claim to fame was playing Eddie Munster in the hit TV series.

Hunt and Roger Maris were boyhood friends in North Dakota, and they are buried within feet of each other in Holy Cross Cemetery in Fargo.

Edited April 5, 2017 by fan_since79

[Angels#1Fan]

41 minutes ago, fan_since79 said:

Hunt and Roger Maris were boyhood friends in North Dakota, and they are buried within feet of each other in Holy Cross Cemetery in Fargo.

Now that's interesting..didn't know that.

[Homebrewer]

13 hours ago, Angels#1Fan said:

Now that's interesting..didn't know that.

Not many do...you have to be there during the 3 weeks that they aren't covered with snow, in order to see them.

[fan_since79]

Former major leaguer Roy Sievers in the middle. He died on Monday at the age of 90. Sievers led the AL in home runs and RBI in 1957. He was also the first AL Rookie of the Year winner in 1949.

 

Edited April 6, 2017 by fan_since79

[Dick B Back]

3 minutes ago, fan_since79 said:

Former major leaguer Roy Sievers in the middle. He died this past Monday at the age of 90. Sievers led the AL in home runs in 1957.

And you know who on the right long before becoming an Angels fan.

Edited April 6, 2017 by Dick B Back
Typo crappola!

[fan_since79]

A wonderful Thomas Boswell column on Roy Sievers and the profound influence he had on a young boy's life.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nationals/roy-sievers-was-a-solid-major-leaguer-but-to-one-dc-boy-he-was-so-much-more/2017/04/05/b53062d6-1a47-11e7-bcc2-7d1a0973e7b2_story.html?utm_term=.926e9d080ef3

Edited April 6, 2017 by fan_since79

[fan_since79]

This man is celebrating his 99th birthday today. He's the oldest living former major leaguer. He's also a member of the Hall of Fame.

 

 

[Angel Oracle]

I had to look it up.   Very familiar name

[Angels#1Fan]

Man I should have got that..I had to look it up also.

[Angel Oracle]

And a guy who retired while still in his prime

[fan_since79]

Bobby Doerr.

Born in Los Angeles, played baseball at Fremont High before being drafted by the Red Sox.

Nine-time All-Star, averaged 110 RBI from 1946-1950. The only Red Sox player to hit for the cycle twice.

He led the AL 16 times in one defensive category or another, and retired with the highest career fielding percentage for a second baseman (at that time).

At the age of 33, he suffered a back injury while fielding a slowly hit ground ball, and it got worse and led to his early retirement.

https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/afad9e3d

[fan_since79]

Nice interview with Bobby Doerr with lots of pictures.

http://baseballhall.org/discover/the-captain-speaks

I love the story of how he met his wife:

"It was there that winter (1938) that I met my wife, who was teaching school up there (Junction City, Oregon). I didn’t realize she was going to be my wife at that time, of course. But this one night, each Saturday night down the river from us at the C.C. camp, while the boys were building a road over the mountain, they would have a dance one night and have a movie another night.

We would get in the back of this truck, as they’d come pick us up to take us down to the dancing. One night, the people across the river, friends, invited us to come over to their place. It was just kind of dancing from a phonograph. I can remember when we got ready to leave to go back across the river about 2 or 3 o’clock in the morning, Monica was ahead of me in this little old rowboat. The fellow was going to row us across. The seat next to her was all white from being cold and frosty. I remember when I got in, Monica, who would turn out to be my wife, put her coat down so I didn’t have to sit in that old icy seat. And at the time I thought that was pretty nice. I fell in love with Monica that night."

[fan_since79]

What do these two men have in common?

[fan_since79]

It's really a two-parter:

What do they both have in common?

What does this season have to do with them?

 

 

Edited April 15, 2017 by fan_since79

[fan_since79]

Okay, the top photo is a young Connie Mack. He had a lengthy career.

[fan_since79]

I can see that interest in this thread is fading, so I'll go ahead and give the answer.

What Connie Mack and Vin Scully have in common is that both men were active in major league baseball in 1950. Mack was in his final year as manager of the A's and Scully in his first year as broadcaster for the Dodgers.

And 2017 is the first season since 1885 when neither man has been active in MLB.

 

[Stradling]

Just now, fan_since79 said:

I can see that interest in this thread is fading, so I'll go ahead and give the answer.

What Connie Mack and Vin Scully have in common is that both men were active in major league baseball in 1950. Mack was in his final year as manager of the A's and Scully in his first year as broadcaster for the Dodgers.

And 2017 is the first season since 1885 when neither man has been active in MLB.

 

That is insane. 

[Blarg]

This thread hasn't lost interest, there are just harder questions.

Here is one for Halo fans, name these three players and also the strange stat that one of them maintains, the only player in baseball to achieve this.

[fan_since79]

That question is too tough for me. Perhaps AO can help out.