Snider or Reese?

[Bob Lemke]

A reader wants to know if this 1950s baseball "charm" pictures the Duke or Pee Wee. Any thoughts?

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[sflayank]

doesnt look like either of them to me

[Robextend]

I would say neither

[RayBShotz]

I'd say neither, but if it has to be one or the other the answer seems certain to be Reese.
Guess.
RayB

[bbcarddan]

I have a similar charm I thought it might be Lou Boudreau but that doesn`t seem quite right.I asked this question on the old boards about my charm but I can`t remember the names people came up with maybe it was Reese.If there is a way I can search the old forum maybe I can help.Your charm appears to be a close up of the photo in my charm but there is a shadow over the face on mine so I don`t know if they are the same person or not.

[FUBAR]

those two pictures look the same to me, one just appears to be cropped down a bit to fit the charm

[bbcarddan]

Thats what I thought but how do you explain the shadow over the face of mine?Is it a separate photo of the same player or just some editing of the photo when it was cropped to a headshot?

[ibuysportsephemera]

Neither Snider or Reese...not even close in my opinion.

[FUBAR]

Thats what I thought but how do you explain the shadow over the face of mine?Is it a separate photo of the same player or just some editing of the photo when it was cropped to a headshot?

The other has a shadow as well, just lighter, plus the image is faded alot more. it could also have been lightened... not sure, but it looks the same to me

[bobw]

Played with the contrast and they look like they may be same photo with different croppings.

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o186/bobw_photos/Sports%20Collectibles/50scharm.jpghttp://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o186/bobw_photos/Sports%20Collectibles/123.jpg

[GoldenAge50s]

I started a thread about these charms a couple of yrs ago:

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=66836&highlight=charms


At that point I determined the pic you have to be Wally Westlake. I'll let you read the thread & decide!

[JasonL]

my 3 cents

[Bob Lemke]

Thanks for the refresher course, Fred.

So does a Snider exist, or was he a misidentification on earlier versions of the checklist?

[GoldenAge50s]

Just before I started that thread here on N54 I did a similar one on the EBay Sports Board w/ similar ID results, so of all the info I gathered I'm pretty sure of the ID's of just about all of the charms I have or others pictured.

At this point I do not have a Snider & have never seen one.

I also have never seen a Ewell Blackwell or a Jackie Robinson from the cklist.

[Volod]

The player (whoever it is) in the photo appears definitely to be in a batting pose (not follow-through) and a left-swinging one at that. That would seem to rule out Reese, who was right-handed. Snider was a left-side batter, but I agree with other posters that it does not look like him. My first impression was Willie Jones, but he was also a righty. Is it for certain that the photo is a Brooklyn player?

[Leon]

If there is a way I can search the old forum maybe I can help.

Sorry I can't help with the picture but all of the old posts from the old forum (Network54baseball) going back to late 2001 when it was formed, are here on the new board. regards

[GoldenAge50s]

See post 11 for ID

[bbcarddan]

Thanks Leon I thought the old posts were brought over. I can`t remember how the post I made on the old board went.I`m just not sure how to dig it up.

Is there a way to search posts with my previous username from the old board?I changed my username when the new board started.The search engine doesn`t recognize my old username.

[bbcarddan]

I found the thread I was looking for maybe this can help. http://www.network54.com/Forum/153652/thread/1234469677/last-1234503284/Who+is+this+player+and+what+is+it-


My guess then was Ferris Fain but the other guess Willard Marshall has possibility.