rolling old-tyme baseball photograph thread

I've been browsing through the LOC photo site, and they have a pretty good selection of turn of the century (and pre-20th) baseball photography. I'm going to throw the ones with big TIF files into LR and do some cleaning and brightening and make prints for myself. Anyone who winds up wanting a full-size TIF or JPG of any of these, holla at me and I'll upload it somewhere other than Flickr.

Casey Stengel:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4026/4370604657_1972bccc90_b.jpg

what the original looked like:
http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/ppmsca/18400/18466r.jpg

nice touch-up job!
sort of prefer the old-tyme-y colouring tho.

I believe that 'Dodger' park was on Third Ave in Gowanus/Park Slope.

this thread is going to be awesome

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2518/4101084606_a881d3446b.jpg

Ernie Krueger, Cleveland AL, at Polo Grounds, NY

Not THAT old time, but:

Don Mossi:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/images/02/22/don-mossi.jpg

is that the san diego chicken?

http://hydeparkblvd.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Eddie-Colling.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2264/2163449614_fc82d81c2f_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2048/2163448880_9a04436883_o.jpg

http://myfolio.pixel8tion.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/baseball-patmaloney.jpg

that toronto cap is fucking ill

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2253/2163920956_dff4a58462_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2159/2163147081_4ec1dc9a6f_o.jpg

Some of these files are horrible - it's like they blew dust onto the glass plates before scanning them.

dust is very old-timey

Easterly reckons that young floozies positively swoon over "home" runs.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3379/3640762733_1cb47cd416.jpg

holy shit love his sweater - how comfortable does that look??

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2264/2163449614_fc82d81c2f_o.jpg

great thread!

great threads!

how about some more old timey 'staches?

okay, no stache, but...

http://i.cdn.turner.com/si/multimedia/photo_gallery/0905/mlb.nicknames/images/mardecai-brown.jpg

three fingers!

Not exactly "old-tyme," but...

http://www.life.com/image/ugc1138021/in-gallery/51141/1955-world-series-rare-never-seen

Wow.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Jim_McCormick_baseball_card.jpg/331px-Jim_McCormick_baseball_card.jpg

James McCormick (November 3, 1856 – March 10, 1918) was a Scottish right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball. A native of Glasgow, he was the first ballplayer born in Scotland to appear in a major league game.

McCormick was great friends with Mike "King" Kelly and was also very well liked by Cap Anson, two of the great personalities of early baseball. Anson was McCormick's captain-manager in 1885 and 1886, when Chicago won its last 19th-century pennants.

In Paterson starting in 1885, McCormick co-owned a bar with a fellow former local player, Dave Treado. It had a ticker, to post results of games and races. Before the 1888 season and probably at other times, Kelly did some bartending for him. That August, when McCormick’s wife Jennie died, Kelly wired a former mutual Chicago teammate, and "telegraphed Mr. Joseph Towell, the [Paterson] florist, to get up something handsome, and this consisted of `The Gates Ajar,’ the sides of which were made from nephetos [presumably nepetas, aromatic herbs in the mint family] and white roses, the base of carnations, yellow roses and white lilies. The gates were made of ivy leaves, the whole being surmounted by a dove."

http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/5818/edwalshhof1.jpg

Ed Walsh. I found this looking up info about my new boss. I also found a cool photo of Elmer Stricklett ("Master Teacher of the spitball"), but it's too small.

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/22/charles-m-conlon-baseball-photographs/

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7172/6750846167_9ee3f1f694_o.jpg

Sports Illustrated has a nice slide-show of old spring training photos up:

http://i.cdn.turner.com/si/multimedia/photo_gallery/0702/gallery.mlb.classic.spring.training/images/mays-dark-80962391.jpg

http://cnnsi.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/0702/gallery.mlb.classic.spring.training/content.1.html?sct=mlb_bf4_a4

https://p.twimg.com/Ar_S8C5CEAIn7Hm.jpg

Casey Stengel and a friend

ws friend

slider I hardly know er

Johnson, Grove, Young, and guy who went 34-5 one season:

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6064/6082209587_768af071ac.jpg

Lots more here: http://www.highheatstats.com/2012/10/amazing-baseball-photos/#more-7269.

(Playoffs? Yes, I know.)

not just photos... but who ever heard of the Indoor Base Ball craze?

http://baseballnuggets.blogspot.com/2012/10/indoor-baseball.html

Just started Summer of '68 by Tim Wendel. I wasn't aware of this Neil Leifer photo for a Sports Illustrated cover:

http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lt7wfvMnnA1qm9rypo1_1280.jpg

Weird, wild stuff:

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/B4sJ9rNCIAAcFoQ.jpg

https://mlblogsthesproutingnews.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/ernie-orsatti-cardinals1.jpg

https://sfgiantsphotos.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/grant-eddie-272-69_hs_pd.jpg

http://thumbs.imagekind.com/5307597_650/Lawrence-J-Larry-Benton_art.jpg?v=1401986712

http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large-5/2-william-c-baby-doll-jacobson-retro-images-archive.jpg

need IDs

1. ernie orsatti
2. eddie grant
3. larry benton
4. baby doll jacobson

rolling newly discovered color footage of old-tyme baseball

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/sports/ted-williams-film-last-game.html

just barely beat ya to it

i failed at searching : /

https://phildellio.tripod.com/clemente.jpg

There's some Yankee fan page or something that keeps showing up on my FB wall with great photos.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BSoQlS-CUAAQgpE.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/61/f4/6c/61f46cbfcb8e6a28a7859da261fdf098.jpg

wow, when eras collide

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FPTs6HkVIAM52N5?format=jpg&name=medium

I'd never seen this till yesterday.

Ozzie Smith and Eddie Murray, high school teammates. Because that really happened. pic.twitter.com/G474z1OVjp

— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) August 31, 2021

I'm in one of those Facebook groups for the small town where I grew up. Someone posted this morning, identifying it as 1971 and soliciting names.

https://i.postimg.cc/3wxP8GHQ/baseball.jpg

97% sure that's me just to the coach's right. (Couldn't remember his name, but someone ID'd him as Mr. Morton in the comments.) I'm so proud of those pants--I hadn't even read Ball Four yet, but I was already bucking the system. Typically, I'm trying to sneak a glance at the lineup card, worried about where I'm batting or even if I'm starting.

Great photo. Looks like you guys were getting in some fall ball.

I think you're right--the weather still made sense then.

I think I posted in the portraits thread about how great Walter Iooss is (probably misspelled his name as I can’t find it in search) but was reminded of this by this thread & a SFG photography book I bought recently.

https://i.postimg.cc/ZqywVGpd/IMG-4819.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/5Nw2vyXc/IMG-4816.jpg
Yogi Berra & Whitey Ford

https://i.postimg.cc/gkJqM9P2/IMG-4817.jpg
DiMaggio (at old timers day)

https://i.postimg.cc/52y7FYtp/IMG-4820.jpg
Juan Marichal

https://i.postimg.cc/NfpCM7Q5/IMG-4821.jpg
Mays

https://i.postimg.cc/bJc3Mm9F/IMG-4822.jpg
Koufax

https://i.postimg.cc/vBr3d5P8/IMG-4825.jpg

I follow former SI photographer Walter Iooss on IG (you should too) and he posted this pic he took of Willie Mays the other day on Mays’s 90th bday. Pull this picture out every time someone says “they didn’t have athletes then like we have now.” pic.twitter.com/y6buSb1o54

— Harry Arnett (@harryarnett) May 7, 2021

Some background for some of these photos here

that first one is Dodger Stadium is just sensational. and the Piazza graphic! so 90s.

I think the three trees on the left are these ones

Fun Fact: The three palm trees in the left field bullpen are nicknamed, "The Three Sisters". They're so iconic to the stadium and to the team, the Dodgers actually incorporated them as part of their sock design. 🌴🌴🌴 pic.twitter.com/SjFysBE83g

— All Sports History (@AllSportHistory) April 6, 2020

He turned 80 last year, still alive. His site:

https://www.walteriooss.com/

Backatcha, Dick Allen:

https://i.postimg.cc/Vvt8S7QL/walter.jpg

Dave Parker, 1973 Charleston Charlies. @Pirates pic.twitter.com/nbq4vRmH0H

— Vintage Jerseys & Hats (@PolyesterUnis) January 27, 2024

First Jays spring training, 1977. Some weird kind of calisthenics drill, I think.

https://i.postimg.cc/XvMxCT5r/roy.jpg

Is that not just sliding practice?

Joking!

Sorry!

I often assume everyone's on my wavelength. In my local Facebook group yesterday, someone linked to a big table of census-derived data for our town. In the comments I said "You know, a census taker once tried to test me...the rest of the story isn't important." The poster responded "Funny, but not"--I couldn't tell if she got the reference or not.

Cosell at Exhibition Stadium:

https://i.postimg.cc/Sx7NR6f2/cosell.jpg

I like this one: Ted Williams at spring training, 1981, invited by then-Jays coach Bobby Doerr. (I get some of these from a FB page called Cooperstown in Canada that shows up on my feed.)

https://i.postimg.cc/4N3yMWG1/ted.jpg

"Just get the bat out front, John, and launch that fucking thing into space."

20-year-old prospect Cito Gaston.

https://i.postimg.cc/GptvRyc4/cito.jpg

The Alous, 1966. (SI's Neil Leifer.)

https://i.postimg.cc/XYJPSPHW/alous.jpg

Frank Robinson, 1966--it was a very good year.

https://i.postimg.cc/wTWTXFdF/frank.jpg

Weirdest photo that turned up on my FB wall this morning: the two Joneses, 1996:

https://i.postimg.cc/N0G3Nxg3/jones.jpg

Someone else commented on the thing that jumped out at me right away: looks like a photo from the '50s (the other person thought the '20s--the colour rules that out for me). And was Chipper Jones always that stocky? He looks like Harmon Killebrew there.

Maybe the M for Milwaukee on the hat is adding to the effect?

I miss a lot--see discussion of Shohei Ohtani New Yorker cover--so I didn't notice that...You might be right, though, that the M (almost subliminally) has something to do with it. It's their bulldog-like builds, which I associate with the '50s, that seemed off to me.

pretty sure that M is for macon, erstwhile atlanta class a affiliate

that photo is clearly (to me) show on medium format film too, which adds to the effect. old tymey portraits would have been shot on large format film. neither look like 35mm

Oh would wearing the M for Macon have been a thing they would have done? Agree they look unusually built, perhaps it's the photo angle slightly from below. Timeless photo from the ankles up.

I'm sure all of that figures in, but this is how I remember Chipper Jones:

https://i.postimg.cc/W3vg3LJJ/chipper.jpg

Did he lose weight as he got older? Bulking up seemed to be the usual thing during the PED era.

Looks like baby fat, not unusual to see guys tone up to keep pace in the majors surely

the macon braves are no more, having moved to rome, georgia in 2003 . . . where some desperate writers refer to them as the R-Braves.

the M-Braves still exist tho, as a double-a team in pearl (just outside of jackson) mississippi. naturally they had to add a fucking tomahawk to their M

https://mbraves.milbstore.com/cdn/shop/files/5950road_450x.png

This is their last year in MS; moving to Columbus GA next year. The Jackson area is not having a good 2020s.

huh. thanks!

columbus, ga has had a bunch of teams over the last 150 years; the last one left for bowling green, ky in 2009

i assume they've built a new stadium and will be naming themselves the FORT BENNING MURDERERS or something?

I've mentioned this game more than once on ILB: June 4, 1989, when the Jays came back from 10-0 against the Red Sox to win 13-11, the big hit being Ernie Whitt's grand slam.

I'd somehow forgotten this, though, same game: George Bell karate-kicking Bruce Kison!

https://i.postimg.cc/mgJ8KYVc/bell.jpg

From a Facebook account called Cooperstown in Canada (more for the story than the photo itself):

One of my big baseball regrets is not begging my parents to take me to the 1991 All-Star Game at SkyDome 33 years ago today.

I didn't go and I missed out on this: just a pre-game home plate meeting between DiMaggio, Williams, Aaron, and Carew with Piniella looking on.

https://i.postimg.cc/5y6hPZ7G/coop.jpg

No recollection of that at all--kind of wish I'd been there too.

Sept. 18, 1977: Hank and Billye Aaron in Japan to congratualate Sadaharu Oh on #756.

https://i.postimg.cc/Fs7wXYjj/aaron.jpg

Gibson at Candlestick, 1961.

https://i.postimg.cc/g0GPDXJD/gibson.jpg

Only started once there that season, so easy to track down the boxscore:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SFN/SFN196104232.shtml

So-so, but he did strike out Mays and Cepeda (but not McCovey).

From last week, but I don't think there's a general thread for photos, and I really liked this:

https://i.imgur.com/Hti02gE.jpeg

that's great

vry cool

https://i.postimg.cc/s275V9z0/IMG-3893.jpg

is it cuz gibson was a righty but in the photo he’s a wearing a lefty glove?

if so was thinking the photo might be flipped but then the cards lettering would be flipped too no?

https://i.postimg.cc/VLwjDHFS/reggie.jpg

Judge/Ohtani, 1978 version.

https://i.postimg.cc/SQ96CDyJ/1978.jpg

(Designated for the SI '79 preview cover, I believe.)

https://i.imgur.com/b2f6NOd.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/1EN0woD.jpeg

Sorry I should say:

The last photo was taken in Washington D.C. during the 1912 World Series between the Giants and the Red Sox. All those people are there to watch the 1912 equivalent of "Game Day" eg, someone watching a ticker tape and moving little wooden figures around a board to represent the action.

The previous photo is of a game at Old Forbes Field in Pittsburgh during the 1960 World Series, taken from a seemingly impossible angle. They look like they're in a blimp! However I'm pretty sure they're on the roof of the building you can see in the distance just to the right of the grandstand in this picture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes_Field#/media/File:Forbes_Field_football.jpg

forbes field photo was taken atop the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_of_Learning

Nice bookend to a YouTube clip I posted yesterday:

https://i.postimg.cc/mkyL8f3W/reggie.jpg

The clip (on the WS thread) included Reggie Smith in 1981--I guess he'd lost his starting job by then. The photo is Yaz, Smith, and Tony Conigliaro in 1970.

I follow some baseball groups on Facebook, and I just love old-timey baseball video clips (c.1920s). One of the things I get a kick out of is how players actually shake hands after home runs. It's amazing the high five didn't evolve until decades later!

Dusty Baker and Glenn Burke, 1977:

https://www.lgbtculturalheritage.com/highfives