T206 Spike Shannon's head
 

I always thought my T206 depiction Spike Shannon's head was incongruous. But, after finding this photo of Spike I now think he just had an enormous noggin. Does anyone else have any photos of Spike?

Not an oversized squash., Just a disproportionately puny body.

Spike Shannon's picture is in the dictionary under "Lantern Jaw" which is a term I don't hear much in the last 20 years or so.

It looks like he is a descendant of the Spanish Habsburgs, who wrote the book on jaws.

I think you're thinking of Peter Benchley.

"With an oversized head and slinkys for arms, that's no way to go through life son."

Spike...
 

another photo...

lantern jaw, granite head
 

Spike had a formidable cranium, for sure. He reminded me of Cy Morgan, whose head looks like it has 90° angles

http://www.baseballlibrary.com/pics/.../Morgan_Cy.gif

http://www.t207.com/images/t204/t204_morgan_sgc50.jpg

Can't get my photos of Philip II and Philip IV of Spain to compress, but a GIS for them makes Spike look like Casper Milquetoast.

Lantern jaw or not, Shannon is one of the less wonderful artistic renderings in the T206 set. He's all bent up like Plastic Man from the old comics. If it weren't for the smokestacks in the background he would join Dunn in the flies through the air with the greatest of ease T206 horizontal pose wannabe category. My theory is that the same artist who painted Spike Shannon also did Billy Purtell and was then told to clean out his desk, and maybe consider another line of work. And stay the heck away from that Kreindler kid. If he were to have painted any more players everyone would have quit smoking in 1911. The history of the world as we know it could have been very different. Just my theory.

http://photos.imageevent.com/kawika_...hannonP350.jpg http://photos.imageevent.com/kawika_...%20Purtell.jpg

Interesting theory Kawicka... I still want some of what is growing in your cellar!

The Kawika cellar, circa 1970, many braincells ago.

http://photos.imageevent.com/kawika_...lt%20House.jpg

PS. Steve: Thanks for the scans. Thirteen inches of snow, you say. Yuk! Lovely day in Honolulu today but we just came off a nasty tropical storm in the islands - five inches of rain on Sunday. Quite the mess and probably a big disappointment for West Coast tourists fleeing their own deluge.

Are those coke bottles salesman samples? Undersized seems to be a theme in this post...:)

GB

I must throw in a nomination for "T206 Spike Shannon's Head" being the best thread title in 2010. Just reading the title threw me into a nice round of laughter!