Baseball Photo Trivia

[Angel Oracle]

483 feet to CF and 251 feet down the LF line at the Polo Grounds.   Talk about quirky?

Bobby Thomson's HR in any current park would be nothing but a lazy can of corn.  

[fan_since79]

AO might get this one.

What do these four have in common, other than being in the Hall of Fame?

   

 

[Roy Hobbs]

15 minutes ago, fan_since79 said:

AO might get this one.

What do these four have in common, other than being in the Hall of Fame?

   

 

I think this was a question on Sports Jeopardy, they all finished their careers in the same city but on a different team from which they started on.Red Sox Braves for Ruth Giants Mets for Mays Braves Brewers for Aaron and Cubs White Sox for Santo

[fan_since79]

You got it, Roy!

 

[Angel Oracle]

This guy was the youngest ever to play in a MLB game for the Halos, just 11 days after his 18th birthday.

 

[Blarg]

I was thinking Cardenal but that was wrong. 

Aurelio Rodriguez was only 19 when he got his first chance. He only really played two full years on the Angels but I never forgot the guys name for some reason.

[Tank]

7 hours ago, Angel Oracle said:

This guy was the youngest ever to play in a MLB game for the Halos, just 11 days after his 18th birthday.

 

chico escuela?

[arch stanton]

Willie Montanez. Got rule 5'd from the Cards so they had to give him a shot

[Angel Oracle]

Yep, 1B Willie Montanez

Andddd his MLB debut, as Arch alluded to it (due to being Rule 5 acquisition), came on opening day of the 1966 season at the old Commisky Park.

It was a week before Anaheim Stadium had its' MLB regular season debut.

He played in 8 games, 2 at bats total, and then his next MLB game was with the Phillies in 1970, a year before he was runner-up for NL ROTY to Braves' catcher Earl Williams.     

[fan_since79]

Dodgers' all-time leader in hits, doubles, triples, RBI, and total bases.

Photo from 1959 upon his election to the Hall of Fame.

[Angel Oracle]

Zack Wheat?

 

[fan_since79]

2 hours ago, Angel Oracle said:

Zack Wheat?

 

I knew you would get it.

[Angel Oracle]

49 minutes ago, fan_since79 said:

I knew you would get it.

Hard to tell, but I'm assuming that he's in the middle between Eddie Collins and Ty Cobb in that pic he's holding, when all three were with the Philly A's in the late 1920's at the end of their careers. 

[fan_since79]

I like this pic.

[fan_since79]

Most baseball fans are unaware of this great hitter.

Nicknamed "Slug" due to his slow speed. A sportswriter once said of him that he was "the slowest moving great hitter who ever lived."

From 1921 through 1927 his average BA was .380 with seasons of .394, .403, .393, and .398. If he had been even a moderately fast runner, he may have hit the .400 mark in those four years. Nobody has ever had four seasons of .400 or better.

 

 

 

 

[makepeac]

Old Tiger fans know him as Harry Heilmann.

[fan_since79]

Gee, I can't slip anything by you guys.

 

[Lou]

10 minutes ago, makepeac said:

Old Tiger fans know him as Harry Heilmann.

he was great in L.A. Law 

 

 

 

[fan_since79]

Hamlin, man, Hamlin.

 

[fan_since79]

Heilmann died of lung cancer in 1951 at the age of 56.

On his deathbed, Ty Cobb told him he had been inducted into the Hall of Fame. He was actually admitted the next year.

Cool thing for Cobb to do, even if it wasn't true. 

 

[fan_since79]

For you Phillies fans out there.

Context of this photo?

 

[Fish Oil]

I'm not a Phillies fan, but I remember watching this play as it happened. Great stuff, thanks.

1980 WS. Boone muffed a popup and Rose caught it.

Edited February 10, 2019 by Fish Oil

[fan_since79]

55 minutes ago, Fish Oil said:

I'm not a Phillies fan, but I remember watching this play as it happened. Great stuff, thanks.

1980 WS. Boone muffed a popup and Rose caught it.

..with one out and the bases full of Royals in the 9th inning of Game 6. Huge play. Tug McGraw then struck out Willie Wilson to end it and give the Phillies their first World Series title.

[fan_since79]

14 minor league seasons. Never played in the majors, yet he's in the Hall.

 

[Blarg]

It's the Earl.