My Thoughts on Vintage Baseball

[Cardboard Junkie]

I think a lot about Foster Castleman and Purnal Goldy, Gene "Big Daddy" Lipscomb. And that third guy from "bachelors three" that I can't remember right now.

Time for another Becks Dark and a tiny hit!

As I recall, (or so I heard) strip cards came in a type of roll despensing crank type vending machine. For a penny or two, you cranked the handle and they rolled out a small strip. of 5 or so. Like the old U. S. stamp machines. Some types you just pulled a lever or slide.

[terjung]

really enjoyed that read, Peter. Thank you!

[AndyG09]

Peter, love the randomness. That was a fun read! For sure Rabbit wins over "Wee" Willie. Have a great 2012 friend! Hope your Mets find a little more magic this season!

Best,

Andy

[BlueDevil89]

Great post!

I've always secretly believed that Christy Mathewson and Grover Cleveland Alexander were twins in the metaphysical sense, with one getting all "goodness' and the other getting all the "meanness" when they split into two separate entities. Think about it...

Happy New Year to All!

[WillowGrove]

Thanks for your comments guys. Anyone else have their own random comments on vintage baseball?

[z28jd]

Originally Posted by WillowGrove

Thanks for your comments guys. Anyone else have their own random comments on vintage baseball?

I have one besides the fact I like the Dots Miller reference in your first post, don't know how I missed it.

I was just saying to my dad today it's sad how few people care about baseball history and the proof was in two articles I wrote for the Pirates website I write for yesterday. A story about a rumor about Vicente Padilla pitching for the Pirates scouts down in Nicaragua gets picked up by tons of sites and plenty of people discuss it(took me about 30 minutes total to write the story,if that). I post a bio of Claude Ritchey early this morning that took about 3 hours to write/edit and it gets about 1/10th the amount of hits. Makes me a little sick how big of a difference there can be between those two stories.

Oh well, I guess years from now the Ritchey article will still be interesting to a select few, hopefully, for the hobbies sake.

[Ladder7]

Fun thread.

I have this pc Im nearly certain it's 1904 Jimmy Collins and positive it's is Huntington. Why he's playing second base wearing Florsheims is anyones guess.

Wait, is that fellow sliding who I think it is?!

[David Bender]

For what it's worth, I thought the Claude Ritchey piece was really interesting as all of your historical pieces have been. Thanks for writing those.

I read the Padilla piece too of course.

Originally Posted by z28jd

I have one besides the fact I like the Dots Miller reference in your first post, don't know how I missed it.

I was just saying to my dad today it's sad how few people care about baseball history and the proof was in two articles I wrote for the Pirates website I write for yesterday. A story about a rumor about Vicente Padilla pitching for the Pirates scouts down in Nicaragua gets picked up by tons of sites and plenty of people discuss it(took me about 30 minutes total to write the story,if that). I post a bio of Claude Ritchey early this morning that took about 3 hours to write/edit and it gets about 1/10th the amount of hits. Makes me a little sick how big of a difference there can be between those two stories.

Oh well, I guess years from now the Ritchey article will still be interesting to a select few, hopefully, for the hobbies sake.

[Mark]

Originally Posted by z28jd

I have one besides the fact I like the Dots Miller reference in your first post, don't know how I missed it. I post a bio of Claude Ritchey early this morning that took about 3 hours to write/edit and it gets about 1/10th the amount of hits. Makes me a little sick how big of a difference there can be between those two stories.

Oh well, I guess years from now the Ritchey article will still be interesting to a select few, hopefully, for the hobbies sake.

I read your article on Pirates Prospects. In fact, I read almost all of them. You do nice work. I didn't comment on it because it makes me mad to think how we lost him in such a lousy trade to Boston. Anyway, that site is helping me get through another January.