Let's see your 3 favorite photos

[Leon]

I won 't show the H and B bat train again as I just showed it but here are a few....

[Big Six]

I have only recently begun picking up photos...in many cases I'm not even sure what draws me to them, but they are unlike any of the other things I collect. I am solidly a "black and white" guy, though...no interest in color photos...even of more modern players...anyway, here ya go...

An Old Timer's Game photo from Braves Field in 1930...
Casey Stengel tying Zack Wheat's shoe laces before an Old Timer's Game in the early 1960's...
and a recent pickup from Graig Kreindler of Tom Henrich after hitting a game-winning home run in the 1949 World Series...I believe my dad was at this game, too.

[Ladder7]

1913 Naps;


1916 BoSox;



1938 Negro League All Star game;

[Scott Garner]

It was really hard limiting my choices to three photos, so here are four of my fav photos:

1) Bob Feller speed test 8/20/46 at Washington Senators- Type I photo. You gotta love the speed "contraption" device!!

2) Johnny Vander Meer high kick Type I photo taken prior to his first of two consecutive no-hitters in 1938.

3) A 9 1/2" x 14" Type I photo taken of Nolan Ryan during game 3 of the 1969 World Series. This was Ryan's only trip to the World Series in his great 27 year career, and this is the one of two action images that I have ever seen to this game. I love the World Series bunting in the background at Shea!

4) An original 3" x 3" snapshot of fresh-faced Mets rookie Nolan Ryan taken out in front of Shea Stadium in 1968. The photo was also signed in vintage ball point pen circa 1968. I bought this great snapshot from net54's own Jimmy (The King of Clout). Thanks again, Jimmy!! This still remains one of my favorite early images of Nolan.


Bob Feller speed test Type I photo 1946.jpg

Vandy's 1st no-hitter- Type I photo- Baseball magazine.jpg

Ryan 1969 World Series Game 3 original photo.jpg

Ryan 1968 original color snapshot with vintage signature.jpg

[sbfinley]

1. Tommy Bridges on the 1924 Gordonsville High School Baseball team. I graduated from Gordonsville 77 years later. A relative on my mother's side, Charlie Gwaltney, is 3rd from the left on the bottom row with the catcher's mitt.

2. Tommy Bridges and Daffy Dean shortly before game one of the 1934 World Series. They would face each other in game three. A 4-1 St. Louis win.

3. 1929 Portrait of Tommy Bridges as a member of the Evansville Hubs.

[jcmtiger]

Don't have many, but here are 3.

Joe

[slidekellyslide]

1911 Opening Day in Lincoln, Nebraska - panorama showing both the Lincoln and Denver teams.



1948 Nellie Fox minor league photo at Sherman Field.



1956 Dick Stuart press photo

[Kawika]

This has the makings of a great thread. Some terrific photos so far. Here's my faves . . .

#1: 1930 Old Timers Game at Boston.
Similar to Matt's. Just won it the other week. There is a ton of baseball history in this photo; you can stare at it for hours.



#2: Team photo of the 1928 San Francisco Seals printed from original glass negative. Some talented ballplayers in this crew.



#3: Harry M. Stevens outfield panorama of Yankee Stadium in 1939. It didn't look much different, except for the scoreboard, when I was a kid twenty years later, and is still one of the most beautiful vistas ever beheld by these eyeballs.



Honorable Mention:

Babe and Kids, 1923



Prince Oana warming up his flamethrower, Aratani team in Japan, 1920's