Bobby Bonds as a Cub, surrounded by the hats of teams he has played with, 1981.

George Brett having his bubble measured in the 'Bazooka Gum Blowing Championship', 1975.

Fans take home some souvenirs on Sept. 30, 1973, the last game before the renovations at Yankee Stadium. Daily News

A record crowd of 93,103 came to the Los Angeles Coliseum on Roy Campanella Night..

Stan Musial making his retirement speech

One of my personal favorites..

Dave Roberts steals second to start the Red Sox 9th inning rally off Mariano Rivera in Game 4 of the 2004 ALCS

This is Lou Gehrig, Bill Terry, the Babe & Mel Ott

1944 Great Lakes Navel Base baseball team with Larry Doby

Ty Cobb at the wheel of a Case race car, 1911

Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth at an exhibition barnstorming game at Fresno's Fireman's Ballpark on October 29, 1927.

Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth fishing, December 1938. NY Daily News-Getty Images

Cy Young and Honus Wagner, 1953

Jackie Robinson, Gil Hodges, Roy Campanella), Billy Cox, and Pee Wee Reese, 1952 Spring Training

Mark Lemke and Jeff Blauser pose as the press box at Atlanta Fulton County Stadium burns, July 20, 1993.

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Nice picture! It also features the Fresno Athletic Club, a Nisei (Japanese-North American) team of the 1920s. Kenso Nushida, who pitched for the PCL Sacramento Senators, was on the team, though he is not in that picture.

Jimmie Foxx as a catcher

The U.S.S. Maine baseball team. All of the team members except for John Bloomer ,back row, far left, were killed in the explosion of the Maine on February 15, 1898. Source Flickr Commons project, 2009

March forth and play ball!

Marilyn Monroe photoshoot with the White Sox, 1951

Josh Gibson and Rafael Pedroso, catchers on the 1937-38 Cuban League Champion Santa Clara Leopards.

Joe DiMaggio and Lefty Gomez

Morehead State has one of the craziest field dimensions of all time

Steve Garvey, Ricardo Montalban, Gary Burghoff, and Tommy Lasorda on Fantasy Island, 1977.

Reggie batting Thurman catching

Ernie Banks with the Kansas City Monarchs

The Hall of Fame remembers Royals, Expos and Pirates shortstop U L Washington, who passed away Sunday.

March 4, 1956 - "Clemente Wows Bucs; Outfielder Amazes New Boss, Crowd With Fly-Chasing." Pittsburgh's sophomore star-in-waiting blows away both his rookie manager and the Fort Myers, FL faithful in this spring's first intra-squad game. "Bobby Bragan didn't hesitate when he picked out Roberto Clemente's spectacular fielding as the most impressive thing he saw in yesterday's game," reports Pittsburgh Press writer Les Biederman. "Until yesterday, Bragan never had seen Clemente play and was amazed at the way he runs down fly balls and turns them into tumbling catches. 'I know he doesn't do that all the time because even Willie Mays doesn't, but I thought for sure he'd drop a couple of those he lunged for,' Bragan added. 'He seems to have sure hands.' Clemente also contributed a single that scored a run, but his best work was saved for the field. He was all over the premises in right field, came in, went back, and to either side to spear fly balls that might have been base hits. He threw out one runner at third and almost nipped another. The fans in the stands ate it up too and when Clemente came to bat for the last time, they applauded him. He was the only Pirate who drew applause from the free-loaders."

MC Hammer, Oakland A’s batboy.

Harmon Killebrew with his 500th and 501st home run balls, 1971

LOOKING BACK AT THE 1914 "MIRACLE" BOSTON BRAVES ...
THE GREATEST COMEBACK IN MLB HISTORY ... 110 YEARS AGO
Braves left fielder, Joe Connolly reported that x-rays of his left leg, broken last September when he overslid a base in St. Louis, have come back negative and that he has been given a clean bill of health to report to spring training.
Joe Connolly was a prominent member of the 1914 Boston Braves World Champions. He was an excellent defender in left field and the Boston Sunday Post wrote, "he is fairly fast, the possessor of a strong wing (arm) and he covers a good extent of territory."
Connolly made his professional debut as a pitcher in 1906 with the Putnam, Connecticut team of the New England League. From 1908 to 1912, he divided his playing time with Class-A Little Rock and Class-B Zanesville teams, playing some outfield when he was not pitching. In 1911 he led the league hitters with a .355 batting average,.
Joe was sold to the Boston Braves in 1913 and became the team's regular left fielder. The sportswriters often referred to him as the Braves' “slugger” or “star.” His rookie season ended prematurely when he broke his ankle, but he led the team with a .281 BA, 57 RBIs, and a .410 slugging percentage.
In 1914, Connolly was the offensive star of the Braves and usually hit third in the batting order. He led the team with a .306 BA and finished second in the NL batting race to Brooklyn's Jake Daubert. He also led the team with nine home runs and 28 doubles.
Joe, however, went just 1-for-9 with one RBI, during the World Series. Nevertheless, the respect for him was further highlighted by a comment made during the World Series by his manager George Stallings. "Connolly showed a remarkable instance of pure grit when he went head-first into the left-field bleachers in a fruitless attempt to snag a line drive that went for a double."

Brooklyn Dodgers spring training in Cuba, 1942

Red Ruffing lost more than 20 games twice while pitching for the last-place Red Sox and won at least 20 for four straight years with the World Series champion Yankees.
Ruffing joined the Red Sox in 1924, just as the club plunged into the bleakest period in its history. The Sox finished last in each of his five full seasons, losing more than 100 games three times.
Although Ruffing was the Red Sox’ top pitcher, he showed no sign of greatness. Today he would be tagged with the backhanded compliment “inning eater.” Relying primarily on a whistling fastball, he posted a better-than-average ERA only once, and then just barely better.
After he batted .314 in 1928 however, while losing a league-leading 25 games, the Sox considered shifting him to the outfield. But he had a bad foot from an injury that slowed him down too much.
Red Sox owner Bob Quinn faced one of his frequent financial crises in May 1930. He said he’d have to raise $67,000 in 48 hours to make a payment. So he swapped the 25-year-old Ruffing to the Yankees for backup outfielder Cedric Durst plus $50,000 and, an additional $50,000 loan from Yankees owner Jacob Ruppert.
Sound familiar? Dejavue when Frazee had to make a loan payment in 1920 and sold Babe Ruth to get the cash from Ruppert ten years before.
The deal made Ruffing’s career. The turnaround in his fortunes began the first time he took the mound for the Yankees. He would go on to have a Hall of Fame career, while Cedric Durst, played in 102 games for the Red Sox, both in left field and in right, hit .245 with 24 RBIs, and in February was released.

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Sandy Koufax holds up four balls with zeros on them, one for each of his no-hitters. Koufax threw his fourth no-hitter and downed the Chicago Cubs, 1-0, with a perfect game. September 9, 1965.

Rod Carew acknowledges the cheers of the fans after his 3000th hit, August 5, 1985

Nolan Ryan tips his cap after striking out Oakland’s Marty Perez to tie Sandy Koufax’s all-time major league record in 10-plus strikeout games of 97 in Anaheim in this July 4, 1977. He ended up with 215.

The Bash Brothers with Reggie Jackson, 1987.

Lefty Grove and Connie Mack, 1931

Hack Wilson taking a tremendous cut. Hack had 56 Home Runs and 191 RBIs in 1930.

Leo Durocher arguing with an umpire.

Karl Wallenda walked across the Vet in 1972 in between games of a double header was given $3000.00

Baseball fans stand on Coogan’s Bluff to watch the New York Giants play the Chicago Cubs, Polo Grounds, New York City, September 23, 1908.

Bill Veeck in front of the eploding scoreboard.

3 UCLA punters- Jackie Robinson, Charley Fenenbock and Bill Overlin, September 14, 1939.

Dizzy Dean playing the tuba. 1934

Short baseball video with Buster Keaton:

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I wish they did this without the coloring..


107 Years Ago Today: Babe Ruth and the Boston #RedSox team arrive to spring training camp in Hot Springs, Arkansas by horse-drawn carriage! (March 5, 1917) ---edit/color by BSmile #MLB #Baseball #History #SpringTraining

Pie Traynor and Herb Pennock were already connected in history by a broken no-hitter in the 1927 World Series. Twenty-one years later, they crossed paths again with their calls to Cooperstown.

Great player. A little underrated I think.

Rod Carew with his hardware.