Baseball Photo Trivia

[fan_since79]

Just now, arch stanton said:

Waner brothers. I don't know which is which. They all look alike to me

You got it!

Paul (Big Poison) on the right, with his brother Lloyd.

 

[Tank]

Vance is close to Waner, right?

i know one was named Paul, and I think the other was Lloyd, right?

[fan_since79]

from Paul Waner's HOF page:

Few players were as well-rounded as Waner was at his peak. During his time in Pittsburgh, from 1926 through ’40, he batted .342 and led all players with 2,868 hits, 558 doubles and 187 triples.

[Angel Oracle]

I wonder if Lloyd would have made it to Cooperstown, if not for being Paul's brother.

Excellent career, but with only 1200+ runs scored and 2400+ hits in his career

[fan_since79]

Set a single-season all time record of 20.5 WAR.

Won 46 games in two different seasons. In one of those years, he had 72 complete games and threw 656 innings.

646 complete games in his career, and the first pitcher to win 300 games.

Hall of Famer.

Called "The Little Steam Engine".

[Tank]

Jack chesebro?

[fan_since79]

6 minutes ago, Tank said:

Jack chesebro?

Good guess, but no.

Initials are P.G.

An interesting fact about this pitcher was that he couldn't throw a curve ball. He relied on his fastball and pinpoint control.

 

[Redondo]

Spoiler

James Francis Galvin would earn the nickname "Pud" over the course of his baseball career for his uncanny ability to make hitters look like "pudding."

http://baseballhall.org/hof/

[arch stanton]

2 hours ago, Redondo said:

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James Francis Galvin would earn the nickname "Pud" over the course of his baseball career for his uncanny ability to make hitters look like "pudding."

http://baseballhall.org/hof/

That's the most disappointing nickname origin story since I found out the girl who sat next to me in sophomore English was called "Poon" because her baby brother couldn't pronounce her real name.

[Blarg]

Only disappointing if she didn't live up to that moniker.

[Blarg]

8 hours ago, fan_since79 said:

Good guess, but no.

Initials are P.G.

An interesting fact about this pitcher was that he couldn't throw a curve ball. He relied on his fastball and pinpoint control.

 

Pud Galvin, the record that will never be broken simply because no starter pitches more than 33 games a season. He had two season that he started more than 70 games. His 46 win season he had a 1.99 ERA and ended his career at 2.87.

The little steam engine passed away ten years after retirement at the age of 45. He made a top salary of $3k, a considerable amount before the turn of the century but ended up dying penniless.

In case you are thinking that is a young age, it was actually just a year under the life expectancy of the average American at the turn of the century. When people talk about athlete differences between today and back then and snear at accomplishments of that time period please keep in mind the player back then was aged by his time period, diet, living conditions, where a 20 year old is playing in a body that took a beating before it ever pulled on a uniform. Life expectancy today is around 78. 

[fan_since79]

Elected to the Hall of Fame in 2006.

[Troll Daddy]

[fan_since79]

Effa Manley, the first woman elected to the Hall of Fame.

[fan_since79]

What was happening when this photo was taken?

 

[yk9001]

Game 5 2002 first round.

Angels were smacking the shit out of wells.

[fan_since79]

8 minutes ago, yk9001 said:

Game 5 2002 first round.

Angels were smacking the shit out of wells.

...and it was beautiful to behold!

 

[Troll Daddy]

Here's some trivia

 

 

[Angel Oracle]

4 hours ago, fan_since79 said:

...and it was beautiful to behold!

 

All 8 runs in the 5th inning's worth

[Troll Daddy]

[Homebrewer]

What's going on here..

[fan_since79]

Torre removing Joba Chamberlain in the 7th inning of Game 3 of the 2009 ALCS?

That's the Mathis walk-off game.

(I had to look up Joba's uniform number and then did a little more research. It's still a guess.)

[Homebrewer]

It's Joba...but it's a different year, also the playoffs, but not vs the Angels.

Notice the other players..

[Angel Oracle]

The #10 patch on the upper sleeves would indicate that someone wearing #10 for the Yankees in the past, passed away that year.

But the one player who wore #10 and passed away around that time, Phil Rizzuto, passed away in 2007.   So I'm guessing it wasn't 2009?  

I'm guessing the 2007 ALDS vs the Indians, just don't know the significance of the moment.

[Homebrewer]

It's more about what they players are doing...