OT: What the heck. Let's see some photos.

[packs]

Here's the moment Joe D hit safely in his 56th consecutive game:



Ted Williams outside of Fenway Park in 1947



A young Sandy Koufax the day he signed his Dodgers contract:

[Jobu]

1933 Yankees at Spring Training. This was Pete Jablonowski's (aka Pete Appleton) copy.

[pherbener]

1929 Spring training

[MikeGarcia]

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[Kawika]

Some favorites. Might have gotten a bit carried away . . .

Fans (when?, where?)


1904 New York Giants (Matty is off taking a leak behind the fence)


Babe Magnet Ruth - "Fancy Curves"


Ty Cobb and Fans 1922


Mel Ott on the occasion of his first big league game, 1927


1928 San Francisco Seals (modern print from original glass negative)


World Series Umpires, 1928


Prince Oana letting one fly, "Aratani" team 1920s


Honolulu Braves (semi-pro?, beer league?, when?) in the dugout


Honolulu Stadium "The Termite Palace" - torn down in the seventies. Drove past the site every day and always wished it were still there.


Bennie Bengough and Annies, spring training 1920s (small snapshot)


Yankee Stadium, 1941 World Series (ground zero for the best boyhood memories)


Purdue fullback Bill Skowron


"Yer Out!!" - got your umpire, got your play at the plate, a field photog, even got a cop in the background


Ted Williams and Little Leaguers, 1952


Ol' Casey 1957

My son with Tommy Lasorda in 2005 during Spring Training and a recent picture at Martinsville, VA my son is on the left, front tire carrier for the team

[bn2cardz]

[MikeGarcia]

...only the bottom half qualifies for this thread ; it's obviously post-war but not by that much .....Is that Fenway ?

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[jerseygary]

Honolulu Braves (semi-pro?, beer league?, when?) in the dugout


The Honolulu Braves were a firs-class semi-pro outfit in the late 20's-early 30's. The big guy "manspreading" is Sig Jakucki, one of the aces of the 1944 Browns. At the time this picture was taken he was either a serving US Army soldier or had just been discharged. A local baseball promoter, who I assume owned the Honolulu Braves, bought Jakucki's early release from the Army so he could play with the team. Sig was the team's most popular and talented player at the time, and the local fans all chipped in to buy him a steamship ticket back to the mainland where he was offered an Oakland Oaks tryout.

I wrote about Jakucki in my book The League of Outsider Baseball - he was a wild man and one of baseball's most interesting characters!.

If you ever want to sell this picture, please let me know, I like these obscure teams and players.

[gracecollector]

[Den*nis O*Brien]

.......and Voland Furniture with the great Fred Domke could revitalize this thread. There must be hundreds of this type of pedestrian mounted photos in Net54 members closets and drawers. But maybe not much interest.

[Den*nis O*Brien]

...and Kramer's Hat's. Bennie Huffman played for the Harrisonville Turks in the 1930's. Please note the dead pigs and buckets of lard behind the Dold team.

[obcbobd]

and a picture of the wall

[PSACJ]

Here are some of my new additions to my Conlon Photo Collection.

[tedzan]

1941 AP Wirephoto




TED Z
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[slidekellyslide]

1914 Johnny Evers autographed snapshot