Baseball Photo Trivia

[Homebrewer]

Another famous photo of TLR..

[Angel Oracle]

LaRussa looks totally different facially today.   Didn't recognize him at all.   Good one, 79

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

Stock Market Crashed and the Great Depression began

[fan_since79]

Okay, this one's a little easier:

 

[Stradling]

Mike Schmidt?

[fan_since79]

Yep.

He led Ohio University to the College World Series in 1970, where they finished fourth. There was a legend about him hitting a 500-ft home run off the roof a nearby campus building. Schmidt says it never happened, but they still talk about it like it did.

http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/141139512/mike-schmidt-500-foot-home-run-ohio-university

[fan_since79]

This one's a little harder.

Future Hall of Famer.

[Angel Oracle]

Probably a little too late in the century to guess Mickey Mantle? 

[Homebrewer]

Because of Mom in the background I'll guess Lou (mama's boy) Gehrig.

[fan_since79]

It's Gehrig.

Did you know that he weighed 14 pounds at birth? His mother was of strong German stock.

 

 

[fan_since79]

There's a good reason Lou was a "mama's boy".

http://sabr.org/bioproj/person/ccdffd4c

Henry Louis Gehrig was born on June 19, 1903 to Heinrich and Christina Gehrig, two first-generation German immigrants who lived in the Yorkville section of Manhattan. He was a very big baby, by some reports weighing in at a massive 14 pounds. Lou was not the couple’s only child, but he was the sole Gehrig baby who would survive to adulthood. An older sister, Anna, died on September 5, 1902, when she was just three months old. A second daughter, Sophie Louise, contracted a combination of measles, diphtheria and bronchopneumonia when she less than two years old, and passed away in the winter of 1906. Heinrich and Christina had another child, a boy, but he died almost immediately after birth, and was never given a name.

Lou’s father was a part-time sheet metal worker who was frequently unemployed because he sometimes drank too much and was subject to spontaneous bouts of ill health. Even when he did work, Heinrich maintained a generally poor attendance record, often missing several days in a row without explanation or excuse. Accordingly, Lou’s mother served as both the breadwinner and the disciplinarian for the family. Christina, already having lost three children to illness, became very protective of her only surviving child.   

[Homebrewer]

Read some stuff on Gehrig last winter...wasn't at all familiar with much of his story before that.

He was pretty much the antithesis of Ruth, which made their baseball lives just that much more interesting. It was Mom in the background that gave the picture away as probably being Lou. 

[Angel Oracle]

Interesting that his mom dressed like that in the early 1900s, that made it tough for me to guess Gehrig.

[fan_since79]

Rookie, future Hall of Famer:

[Dick B Back]

Looks like Ekersley (sp?).

[Stradling]

1 minute ago, Dick B Back said:

Looks like Ekersley (sp?).

Yep

[fan_since79]

1 minute ago, Dick B Back said:

Looks like Ekersley (sp?).

Put a "c" in there and you've got it!

Rookie in 1975 with the Indians. 

13-7 with a 2.60 ERA.

 

[fan_since79]

University of Cincinnati:

[Stradling]

Don't know who this is, but I love this thread @fan_since79, you and @Homebrewer make this thread great (again).  

[fan_since79]

A teammate said of him, "When he first came up he couldn't throw a ball inside a batting cage."

 

[Homebrewer]

eyebrows look like Koufax's

[makepeac]

It's Koufax, he went to Cincinnatti

 

[fan_since79]

Koufax it is!

I need to find some less easy ones.

 

[fan_since79]

Future Hall of Famer in this photo:

 

[Homebrewer]

Mike Piazza?