Baseball Photo Trivia

[CaliAngel]

On 12/20/2023 at 9:21 AM, NJHalo said:

The guy on the left looks like he could pass for Tim Salmon's dad.

I thought the exact same thing. 

[fan_since79]

Baseball eventually took over.

All-time leader in RBI per games played.

This one's easy, but I'd never seen the photo before. 

[Stradling]

Hack Wilson?  I get him and Honus Wagner mixed up.

[jsnpritchett]

54 minutes ago, fan_since79 said:

Baseball eventually took over.

All-time leader in RBI per games played.

This one's easy, but I'd never seen the photo before. 

Lou Gehrig.  Not sure why the pic is colorized, though.

[Angel Oracle]

He must have played football as well at Columbia? 

[jsnpritchett]

Just now, Angel Oracle said:

He must have played football as well at Columbia? 

Yeah, he actually had a football scholarship at Columbia, not a baseball one.

[Blarg]

He had a movie star face and the body of a modern day athlete. 

[notherhalo]

Jeff Mathis - the final out of Weaver's career

[Blarg]

And that is why Mathis was Weaver's favorite catcher. 

[fan_since79]

Gehrig averaged 149 RBI per 162 games. That's over his entire career.

[Tank]

58 minutes ago, fan_since79 said:

Gehrig averaged 149 RBI per 162 games. That's over his entire career.

and that was hitting behind ruth while he was setting one home run record after another. 

i wonder how many more rbi's he would have had if ruth hadn't been such a prolific long ball hitter.

[T.G.]

On 1/13/2024 at 1:10 PM, fan_since79 said:

Baseball eventually took over.

All-time leader in RBI per games played.

This one's easy, but I'd never seen the photo before. 

Darin Erstad.

[NJHalo]

Can anyone figure this one out? I know the stadium, but cannot believe a major league game would have been played with those dimensions. There seems to be a decent crowd.

[Angel Oracle]

15 minutes ago, NJHalo said:

Can anyone figure this one out? I know the stadium, but cannot believe a major league game would have been played with those dimensions. There seems to be a decent crowd.

That makes the Coliseum look like a bandbox.

[jsnpritchett]

56 minutes ago, NJHalo said:

Can anyone figure this one out? I know the stadium, but cannot believe a major league game would have been played with those dimensions. There seems to be a decent crowd.

That's JFK Stadium in Philadelphia. It was mostly used for football. Maybe they did some sort of exhibition baseball game there or something. 

[The Ghost of Bob Starr]

On 1/13/2024 at 5:04 PM, Blarg said:

He had a movie star face and the body of a modern day athlete. 

I get Neil Peart vibes here. 

[NJHalo]

Another oldie. What stadium did this evolve into?

[Angel Oracle]

Colt Stadium?

[Tank]

2 hours ago, NJHalo said:

Another oldie. What stadium did this evolve into?

where the twins used to play in minneapolis?

[NJHalo]

So far no right guesses. 
 

Hint: It was more well known for the football team that played there. No longer standing, and the Football team and baseball team now have their own stadiums

[Roy Hobbs]

1 hour ago, NJHalo said:

So far no right guesses. 
 

Hint: It was more well known for the football team that played there. No longer standing, and the Football team and baseball team now have their own stadiums

That's where the Bears played, the Denver Bears that is. I saw a Broncos game there in 1975, but by that time they had changed the name to Mile High Stadium and added thousands of seats.

[NJHalo]

8 hours ago, Roy Hobbs said:

That's where the Bears played, the Denver Bears that is. I saw a Broncos game there in 1975, but by that time they had changed the name to Mile High Stadium and added thousands of seats.

Correct!!

[The Ghost of Bob Starr]

The ball could have carried there then. 

[Stradling]

So this isn’t trivia or a picture but I enjoyed it despite the fact that it’s Bregman. I personally like listening to professionals break things down. 

 

[Blarg]

He just described splitting himself in two at the pelvis. Hope he can accomplish that goal.