View Full Version : is this baseball team posing w/a dead teammate?
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10-07-2008, 05:04 PM
Posted By: <b>jamie</b><p><img src="http://imagehost.vendio.com/preview/kh/khtreasures2/zc01236.jpg">
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10-07-2008, 05:12 PM
Posted By: <b>Steve Murray</b><p>Dead as a doornail. Looking pretty ripe too.
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10-07-2008, 05:12 PM
Posted By: <b>Dan Bretta</b><p>I saw that one on ebay and thought to myself "WTF?".
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10-07-2008, 05:19 PM
Posted By: <b>Anthony S.</b><p>dead pull hitter.
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10-07-2008, 05:25 PM
Posted By: <b>judson "i see dead people" hamlin</b><p>from the dead ball era
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10-07-2008, 05:38 PM
Posted By: <b>brock</b><p>Why do you think they are doing it as a tribute. It looks like he is wearing a uniform so maybe he died in WW1?
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10-07-2008, 05:48 PM
Posted By: <b>Matt</b><p>Is there a dead guy in the center back and a mannequin in the center middle?
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10-07-2008, 05:53 PM
Posted By: <b>jamie</b><p>ok, just wanted to make sure i wasnt going crazy. that is a corpse in a box with the team then<br /><br />i was the under-bidder unfortunately so i won't be able to get a better scan
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10-07-2008, 05:54 PM
Posted By: <b>howard</b><p>He's just a utility man but he's dying to play.
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10-07-2008, 05:59 PM
Posted By: <b>Jim VB</b><p>See the "B" on the shirts. That's Bernie.
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10-07-2008, 06:02 PM
Posted By: <b>davidcycleback</b><p>I've not seen a sports version, but in the old days they often made memorial cabinet photos of the recently dead. Typically they had a composite living image of the deceased surrounded by flowers or such. So memorializing the deceased through photos was common practice.<br /><br />Most of the memorial cabinets are tasteful and aesthetic. This one might scare young children. What should have been done is have the deceased in an oval in front of or off to the side, rather than 'standing' there in the crowd like an apparition.
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10-07-2008, 06:19 PM
Posted By: <b>Jeff S.</b><p>I think the printer of the photo superimposed the player in the back from a separate negative. I'm assuming he missed the photo shoot that day. Basically you exposed the blank photo paper with the full team shot, then drop the other negative in, crop it down to show what is desired, then expose the paper again. Print and voila, a "full" team shot.
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10-07-2008, 06:28 PM
Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>I think I see Ty Cobb in the back of the photo..... oh wait, that wasn't the question. <br /><br />That is one of the whackiest cabinets I have ever seen...
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10-07-2008, 06:50 PM
Posted By: <b>davidcycleback</b><p>Below are examples of memorial cabinets<br /><br /><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/115/298621968_d108446356.jpg">?v=0<br /><br /><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/190/502221031_11ebaa2244.jpg">?v=0
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10-07-2008, 08:36 PM
Posted By: <b>Geno</b><p>Does nobody else find the Chuckie doll disturbing? I'm OK with the dead guy, but the dude in the middle is troubling...<br /><br />Take Care,<br />Geno
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10-07-2008, 08:38 PM
Posted By: <b>Matt</b><p>Geno - I'm with you; the doll is creepy.
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10-07-2008, 08:48 PM
Posted By: <b>Dan Bretta</b><p>On second look at this photo what I think the photographer did was insert a shot of a guy in a baseball uniform standing against a wooden fence (bleachers or outfield wall probably). The guy probably was not present when they took the photo or he joined the team later... The doll is probably a ventriloquist doll that served as a mascot.
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10-07-2008, 08:54 PM
Posted By: <b>Ken McMillan</b><p>whole picture seems a little "stiff" to me.
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10-07-2008, 09:44 PM
Posted By: <b>Jodi Birkholm</b><p>That may be the most disturbing thing I have seen in a long time. Buddy looks a little withered. How was this EVER considered appropriate?
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10-07-2008, 09:51 PM
Posted By: <b>Anthony S.</b><p>How much did this cabinet end up going for?
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10-07-2008, 10:20 PM
Posted By: <b>Dan Bretta</b><p>$28<br /><br /><a href="http://tinyurl.com/3fvjna" target="_new">http://tinyurl.com/3fvjna</a>
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10-08-2008, 12:20 AM
Posted By: <b>Alan U</b><p>I think the guy to the left of the doll is Daniel Day Lewis... in another lifetime, I guess
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10-08-2008, 05:02 AM
Posted By: <b>Shawn</b><p>I do not think anyone in the photo above is an actual dead person. Some time back I acquired the photo below and it struck me as extremely odd. I wondered if perhaps the woman on the left was dead? I have contacted many many people who are experts on this kinda of thing, and the consensus was that perhaps she was blind or had a mental illness. While that is quite rare in itself, I was told many times by the photo guys and gals that they had never seen of a "posed" dead person standing up(as if still alive). A few had seen some photos of someone "posed" sitting down and wearing regular clothes, but that is extremely rare! <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><img src="http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc139/smokelessjoe/deadcropped.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc139/smokelessjoe/deadF.jpg">
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10-08-2008, 06:37 AM
Posted By: <b>Shawn</b><p>Plus! Here is a picture of the boy in the middle of the baseball team 7 years later... Ha!<br /><br /><img src="http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc139/smokelessjoe/indianFhead.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc139/smokelessjoe/indianF.jpg">
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10-09-2008, 05:28 PM
Posted By: <b>1880nonsports</b><p>is clearly on the ball here. I used to collect the occasional unusual image - and have seen 3/4 with similar anomalies as a result of missing people. That being said, I think the dummy is priceless.........
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10-09-2008, 06:18 PM
Posted By: <b>Fred C</b><p>Do I really have to state the obvious here? It's an overprint. It's a "ghost" image that was transposed on to that picture from another picture, geez.....
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10-09-2008, 07:19 PM
Posted By: <b>Dan Bretta</b><p>Uh....Fred...maybe you should read the thread. More than one person has pointed that out.
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10-09-2008, 07:23 PM
Posted By: <b>Dave F</b><p><br />Dan-<br /><br />I think Fred may have been goofing around.
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10-09-2008, 07:26 PM
Posted By: <b>Jim VB</b><p>Fred was definitely goofing. But his insinuation could easily lead to an entire thread about overprints/underprints and cockfighting. <br /><br />I don't think any of us want to go there. <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>
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10-09-2008, 07:26 PM
Posted By: <b>Geno</b><p>If you look real close at the guy on the far left of the second row, just over his right shoulder, you'll see Susan B. Anthony...weird.<br /><br />Take Care,<br />Geno
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10-09-2008, 07:52 PM
Posted By: <b>Fred C</b><p>Dan, I was just "funnin" around... That picture should be on that website called TheDeadBallEra.com<br /><br />It's definitely pretty freaky...
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10-09-2008, 08:00 PM
Posted By: <b>Dan Bretta</b><p>DOH! You see what happens when I start discussing politics? The battery in my sarcasm meter dies. <img src="/images/wink.gif" height=14 width=14>
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10-09-2008, 09:56 PM
Posted By: <b>ROBERT ADAMS JR</b><p><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x160/bobadams123/?action=view¤t=200px-Susan_B_Anthony_Older_Years.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x160/bobadams123/200px-Susan_B_Anthony_Older_Years.png" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x160/bobadams123/zc01236.jpg"> Actually I think that person center left IS Susan B . Anthony .
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10-09-2008, 10:05 PM
Posted By: <b>Jodi Birkholm</b><p>I wish I had video footage of Susan B. Anthony's audition for Cirque du Soleil. She looks so stiff that you could prop her on top of two stacks of books and iron a shirt.