Classic Baseball Photos

[Angels#1Fan]

35 minutes ago, Homebrewer said:

Yeah, like the milkman, the ice man, the mail man, the fuller brush man..

Don't forget the Helms man. lol

Gold Medal bread was the best!!

[IEAngelsfan]

9 minutes ago, Angels#1Fan said:

Don't forget the Helms man. lol

Gold Medal bread was the best!!

Man, I loved the cream puffs and chocolate eclairs from the Helms truck. Wait, what are you guys talking about exactly?

[Angel Oracle]

And notice that the men mostly wore a suit, tie, and formal hat.

[LAA Road Tripper]

On 10/14/2016 at 9:40 AM, yk9001 said:

Exactly 90 seconds before this photo was taken, Mike Scioscia was giving AK the bunt signal.
I was 150 feet from where this pic was taken.  What a day.

Nobody ever tell me that the Bottenfield-AK-Edmonds trade was a disaster.  One player in the 60 year history of the franchise has been ALCS MVP: Adam Kennedy

A little late to the game on this but Fred Lynn was the 1982 ALCS MVP in their loss to Milwaukee. Not that it really matters. I would have rather had Cecil Cooper win the award and the Angels win the series. Still hurts but it's only been 34 years. I need to give it some time.

[fan_since79]

At least the two teams that caused such heartache to us in 1982 and '86 ended up losing the World Series those years.

Oh, and Baltimore too in 1979. Pittsburgh had that great comeback against them.

 

[fan_since79]

Babe Ruth with the 1914 Providence Grays, before coming to the majors with Boston.

[Angel Oracle]

On ‎10‎/‎25‎/‎2016 at 2:22 PM, LAA Road Tripper said:

A little late to the game on this but Fred Lynn was the 1982 ALCS MVP in their loss to Milwaukee. Not that it really matters. I would have rather had Cecil Cooper win the award and the Angels win the series. Still hurts but it's only been 34 years. I need to give it some time.

That ALCS hurt because some scrub named Peter Ladd replaced the injured Rollie Fingers and shut down the Halos.   Ladd >>>> Luis Sanchez.

That was the ALCS right there. 

[LAA Road Tripper]

I remember attending Game 2 of that series. That was only the 14th year of the league championship series and no team to that point had ever blown a 2-0 lead. Some folks in the crowd actually ran on to the field after the final out. Seemed to me a bad omen at the time and indeed it came back to bite us. 

[yk9001]

On 10/25/2016 at 2:22 PM, LAA Road Tripper said:

A little late to the game on this but Fred Lynn was the 1982 ALCS MVP in their loss to Milwaukee. Not that it really matters. I would have rather had Cecil Cooper win the award and the Angels win the series. Still hurts but it's only been 34 years. I need to give it some time.

I either don't remember, or never knew that. I have been set straight.

[fan_since79]

Hall of Famer Bid McPhee, regarded as the best fielding second baseman of the 19th century. He did not use a glove until late in his career.

“This glove business has gone a little too far,” Bid McPhee said. “True, hot-hit balls do sting a little at the opening of the season, but after you get used to it there is no trouble on that score.”

 

[Blarg]

The ball back then wasn't quite as hard as it is now. I imagine gloveless McPhee would be busted fingers McDL before the first Spring Training game in these times.

[yk9001]

These hall of famers in 1893 couldn't beat a travel squad of 14 year olds today.

[fan_since79]

1 hour ago, yk9001 said:

These hall of famers in 1893 couldn't beat a travel squad of 14 year olds today.

That statement is ridiculous.

Cap Anson, Billy Hamilton, Ed Delahanty, Cy Young ring a bell?

And that's just off the top of my head. There's plenty more.

 

 

[Angel Oracle]

The athleticism and power in today's game is totally different, but the nuances aren't really all that different today.

[yk9001]

Okay, I was exaggerating.

There is no frigging way these guys would beat a CIF D1 first round loser, like a Lakewood, or Edison, or some team in Santa Clarita.  Not in a million years.

 

[yk9001]

Jesus.

This guy looks awesome.

 

They all throw like sissies.

[yk9001]

10 minutes ago, Angel Oracle said:

The athleticism and power in today's game is totally different,

Yeah, its called 1000x better.

[fan_since79]

Last pitch of Nolan Ryan's 6th no-hitter, June 11, 1990 in Oakland. Willie Randolph hits a fly ball (foul) to right field.

 

[Angel Oracle]

1 hour ago, yk9001 said:

Jesus.

This guy looks awesome.

 

They all throw like sissies.

Glove looks like today's golf gloves.

[yk9001]

I'd give the 1890's major leaguers their choice of bats, and a couple of months to play with modern gloves.

 

They'd be mercy ruled out off the field.

[fan_since79]

Mickey getting some friendly advice from some old guy who used to play baseball.

 

[Homebrewer]

Rough looking bunch here..

[Homebrewer]

Tinker, Evers, and Chance.

 

[fanfromday1]

Roger Maris's 61st Home Run

Baseball Radio, Rizzuto Calling Maris's 61st Home Run

[Tank]

On 10/24/2016 at 9:57 AM, Blarg said:

Why is there a Gestapo agent watching her pitch?

they were scouting her for their annual game against the brownshirts.