Baseball Photo Trivia

[Stradling]

Wow HB, you are right.  

[Homebrewer]

I should probably play the lottery today..

[Stradling]

Well I am not positive but it certainly looks like it.  

[Homebrewer]

My first thought was Fidrych, except I don't think he made the hall...but a couple of those kids could have been this guy.

[fan_since79]

Homebrewer needs to recuse himself from this game. He's too good.

 

[Homebrewer]

If one comes up that I absolutely know for sure (have seen it before) I'll DQ myself.

[fan_since79]

One plays baseball, one plays football:

 

 

[arch stanton]

Kershaw and Stafford

[fan_since79]

Damn, you guys are good.

 

[fan_since79]

Context of this play and the name of the player?

 

[Stradling]

Rusty Greer, Kenny Rodgers perfect game.  Huddler hit the ball. 

[fan_since79]

1 minute ago, Stradling said:

Rusty Greer, Kenny Rodgers perfect game.  Huddler hit the ball. 

I thought for sure that would take more time to answer.

Next one will be harder.

 

[fan_since79]

One of them is in the Hall, the other two arguably belong there.

 

[Homebrewer]

Left is Al Kaline (alkaline) Right I believe is Norm Cash...middle not sure..

[Homebrewer]

A very young Freehan maybe?

[makepeac]

Rocky Colavito

[fan_since79]

You guys got it.

Kaline, Colavito, and Cash.

 

[Angel Oracle]

Cleveland rued originally trading Colavito after 1959.   He eventually was traded back to Cleveland from KC in 1965, but wasn't the same player previously there.

He was the best young power hitter in the AL in the late 1950s for Cleveland.

[makepeac]

" Colavito made his last years in Cleveland worthwhile, making the All-Star team in 1965 and 1966 and placing fifth in the 1965 MVP vote after leading the league with 108 RBI and 93 walks while finishing among the AL's top five in home runs, hits and runs, as well as playing without an error in the outfield."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Colavito

[Homebrewer]

That's bad on my part, since I got Kaline and Cash but didn't recognize my first real baseball idol, Rocky Colavito.

I was born outside Cleveland (Akron) and Rocky was the big slugger for Cleveland when I first got interested in baseball.

Rocky Colavito, "Sudden Sam" McDowell, Vic Davalillo (whom I modeled my little league swing after..)

It was about that time when my Dad came home and told us we were moving to California..

[Homebrewer]

"Most managers think pitchers are dumb because we like to do our own thing. Yet we couldn't be too dumb because every year they're changing the rules to make life easier for the hitters." - Sam McDowell in The Gigantic Book of Baseball Quotations (Wayne Stewart, Skyhorse Publishing, 10/17/2007, Page 230)

 

ML Strikeout leader 5 times..

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mcdowsa01.shtml

[Angel Oracle]

42 minutes ago, makepeac said:

" Colavito made his last years in Cleveland worthwhile, making the All-Star team in 1965 and 1966 and placing fifth in the 1965 MVP vote after leading the league with 108 RBI and 93 walks while finishing among the AL's top five in home runs, hits and runs, as well as playing without an error in the outfield."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Colavito

Admittedly, I underestimated his 1965-1966 seasons.   He did benefit from both hitting friendly stadiums in Cleveland and Detroit. 

[Homebrewer]

Vic Davalillo as an Angel

Davalillo had dipped to a .239 average on June 15, 1968 when, the Indians traded him to the California Angels for former All-Star Jimmie Hall.^[8] He rebounded to lead the Angels with a .298 batting average after the trade, finishing the season with a .277 average overall, the sixth highest average in the American League.^[1] In an era dominated by pitching, Yastrzemski was the only player in the American League to hit for an average higher than .300 in 1968.^[21]

At the age of 41 in 1978, Davalillo hit for a .312 average as a pinch hitter for the Dodgers as they once again claimed the National League pennant before, losing to the New York Yankees for a second consecutive year in the 1978 World Series.^[1][41] Davalillo finished out his major league career as a utility player and pinch hitter for the Dodgers.

For the last four seasons of his career, he was the oldest player in the National League until retiring at the end of the 1980 season at the age of 43.^[1] Davalillo returned to play in the Mexican League well into his late 40s.^[42]

[Angel Oracle]

Both McDowell and Tiant were unhittable back in the late 1960s.   Indians had a pretty decent team then, before struggling throughout the 1970s and 1980s.  

[makepeac]

I moved to the Detroit area as a school kid during the '65 season and people still missed Rocky two years after the Tigers traded him to KC who then traded him back to the Indians. 

But luckily for me they had my boyhood idol Al Kaline, Cash, plus young up and comers McLain, Lolich, Freehan, Horton, Northrup, Stanley and McAuliffe. Quite the powerhouse team to watch in the latter part of the '60s.