Baseball Photo Trivia

[Redondo]

3 hours ago, fan_since79 said:

In looking back over this very long thread, I was shocked to see many of the photos I posted are gone, just some numbers there where the picture should be.

I wonder if this is because I got them off of Facebook (some baseball pages there) and they get removed after a certain amount of time?

So for those who are reading earlier pages on this thread, I am sorry.

I still don't know how to upload photos from my own computer onto this forum.

If you use Mozilla Firefox you can open multiple windows. If you open the picture in a separate window you can grab the picture with the mouse and force it into the window you want to paste it too. When you grab it go sideways until you are under the window you need and then push up and the window will open. Just drop the picture in reply window and it will be there. Easiest way to do it.

If you are using something else them open it in another window. Right click on the picture and copy it. Go to the reply box and paste it. Some pictures on Google will not be allowed to be shown. Best way is to use Mozilla Firefox.

[fan_since79]

2 hours ago, Redondo said:

If you use Mozilla Firefox you can open multiple windows. If you open the picture in a separate window you can grab the picture with the mouse and force it into the window you want to paste it too. When you grab it go sideways until you are under the window you need and then push up and the window will open. Just drop the picture in reply window and it will be there. Easiest way to do it.

If you are using something else them open it in another window. Right click on the picture and copy it. Go to the reply box and paste it. Some pictures on Google will not be allowed to be shown. Best way is to use Mozilla Firefox.

What about jpegs that I've downloaded already and simply want to add to my post as an attachment? I don't see anything here that will let me do that.

 

[fan_since79]

"Spahn and Sain, and pray for rain."

Or for Red Barrett (on the left in the photo), who shut out the Cincinnati Reds on 58 pitches. August 10, 1944. Fewest pitches ever in a complete game.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CIN/CIN194408100.shtml

Edited August 10, 2017 by fan_since79

[Angel Oracle]

58 pitches?    That is sometimes a solid 3 innings for Meyer. 

That 1944 game had to be one of the fastest ever, 1 hour and 15 min.    Nowadays, that is usually about 3.5 innings of baseball. 

[Dick B Back]

7 minutes ago, Angel Oracle said:

58 pitches?    That is sometimes a solid 3 innings for Meyer. 

That 1944 game had to be one of the fastest ever, 1 hour and 15 min.    Nowadays, that is usually about 3.5 innings of baseball. 

Or 2 innings for Santiago or Wilson... so glad they're gone.

[fan_since79]

1 hour ago, Angel Oracle said:

58 pitches?    That is sometimes a solid 3 innings for Meyer. 

That 1944 game had to be one of the fastest ever, 1 hour and 15 min.    Nowadays, that is usually about 3.5 innings of baseball. 

That could have been one inning for CJ "The Nibbler" Wilson.

 

[Angels#1Fan]

4 hours ago, fan_since79 said:

"Spahn and Sain, and pray for rain."

Or for Red Barrett (on the left in the photo), who shut out the Cincinnati Reds on 58 pitches. August 10, 1944. Fewest pitches ever in a complete game.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CIN/CIN194408100.shtml

58 pitches?

Unreal. 

[Redondo]

On This Date: August 13, 1948

• 

• Satchel Paige pitches his first complete game

  Paige was 42 when he nabbed his first complete game in the majors -- and it came less than two months after his major league debut.

It took the man whom Joe DiMaggio once called the “best and fastest pitcher” he’d ever faced more than two decades to finally get his moment. On July 9, 1948, Satchel Paige played in his first Major League Baseball game at age 42. After his professional debut in the Negro Leagues in 1926, Paige reached the long-overdue career milestone of playing in the majors 15 months after Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier on April 15, 1947, though Paige once said, “it still was me that ought to have been first.” And, honestly, he was right. The fact that MLB barred Paige — the first Negro Leaguer to be elected to the Hall of Fame, in 1971 — and other African-American ballplayers alike from joining a league with their white counterparts for so many years is an atrocity. Paige’s arm, competitiveness and showmanship that he translated into an estimated 2,500 games, 2,000 wins, 300 shutouts and 55 no-hitters over his career deserved to be on display in the majors long before 1948.

[fan_since79]

August 13, 1910. The most evenly played game in baseball history. Each team had: thirty-eight at-bats, thirteen hits, eight runs. Each team also used two pitchers, struck out five batters, walked three, and hit one batter. Finally, each team fielded thirteen assists and recorded twenty-seven putouts.

[Angel Oracle]

9 inning game with an 8-8 score that only took 2:05 to play?    Nowadays, that's maybe 5 innings, if a similar score. 

[fan_since79]

The man in the middle turns 76 today. Who is he, and who are the other two, smaller, players?

[Homebrewer]

It would have to be Boog Powell and that would make it the 60's...so Luis Appricio? (wild guess..)

[fan_since79]

Boog Powell, and Aparicio on the right.

[fan_since79]

Player on the left pitched a uniquely brilliant game in the late 1950's, with a different team.

 

[Angel Oracle]

1 hour ago, fan_since79 said:

Player on the left pitched a uniquely brilliant game in the late 1950's, with a different team.

 

Hah hah, Harvey Haddix

[fan_since79]

On this date 96 years ago Ty Cobb at 34 became the youngest player ever to collect 3,000 hits. It happened during the second game of a doubleheader against the Red Sox. There was little or no mention of the milestone in any of the papers, only the box score and a few sentences.

August 19, 1921

 

[Blarg]

I'm disqualifying @Homebrewer since he knows this. What is the significance of the photo and who was the pitcher?

Shouldn't be too hard since everyone here was born before the event took place.

[yk9001]

was it the korean dude pitching and tatis had two grand slams?

i think i watched it at the gym.

[yk9001]

Thank you blarg for posting some baseball related item after electricity was invented.

[Kevin]

40 minutes ago, Blarg said:

I'm disqualifying @Homebrewer since he knows this. What is the significance of the photo and who was the pitcher?

Shouldn't be too hard since everyone here was born before the event took place.

Recent photo of Chan Ho Park.

[fan_since79]

August 21, 1990. Phillies eclipse the Dodgers.

Nine runs in the 9th inning.

 

 

Edited August 22, 2017 by fan_since79

[Angel Oracle]

Two errors on Sosh that no doubt contributed to all of those unearned runs?

heh heh heh

[fan_since79]

Walter Johnson in 1924.

In his career he won 38 games by the score of 1-0, and lost 26 by the same score. Both are all-time MLB records.

[fan_since79]

Everything about Walter Johnson is mind boggling. Just a sample:

http://sabr.org/research/walter-johnson-king-1-0-hurlers

Johnson, in the course of his career, participated in no less than 64 1-0 games, winning 38 and losing 26 (including two in relief). He took part in twice as many minimum scoring contests as any other hurler. Not counted is his classic 12-inning 0-0 tie game with Jack Quinn of the Yankees on May 11, 1919. Quinn gave up 10 hits, including one to Johnson, and the Big Train gave up only two in 12 frames. He retired 28 men in a row (George Halas of later football fame going 0-5), but the Nats couldn't get him any runs.

The longest 1-0 game for Johnson was his 18-inning win over Claude Williams of the White Sox on May 15, 1918. He also had three that went 15 innings and five others that went overtime. Walter also had a half dozen 1-0 losses in extra time. In the 11-inning game of July 29, 1918 at Chicago, he pitched only the last 1 and 2/3 innings in relief of Harry Harper and was the loser.

[Angels#1Fan]

It's amazing that Johnson was able to carve out a career that awesome with just a 82 mph fast ball. lol