Baseball History Thread

[Clem Fandango]

http://io9.com/5914713/the-awesomely-weird-art-of-1800s-baseball-photography

[imb]

http://io9.com/5914713/the-awesomely-weird-art-of-1800s-baseball-photography

 

that's outstanding

[OleMissCub]

http://io9.com/5914713/the-awesomely-weird-art-of-1800s-baseball-photography

 

all of them make some sense except for this one...what the hell?

 

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17od394nif1o8jpg/original.jpg

[OleMissCub]

couple of other neat images from that site that is linked

 

1865 scorecards. Spent some time trying to decipher them but the print is too small I think.

 

http://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=psnypl_mss_931&t=w

http://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=psnypl_mss_933&t=w

 

Ruth slides into second

 

http://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=405493&t=w

[Guest]

http://blogimages.thescore.com/mlb/files/2012/08/tigerstadium.jpg

 

This is Tiger Stadium, circa 2012. Link

[javy knows my name]

That's terribly sad.

[OleMissCub]

Yes, very sad. The house of Cobb, Greenberg, and Kaline.

[Guest]

My dad told me this question when I was home for Christmas and I thought it was a good one.

 

If you don't differentiate between the outfield positions (i.e. three OFers rather than one RF, one CF and one LF), prior to 1993, there were nine players who won back-to-back MVP awards, one for each position including pitcher. Who are they?

 

Answer:

 

Hal Newhouser

Yogi Berra

Jimmie Foxx

Joe Morgan

Ernie Banks

Mike Schmidt

Dale Murphy

Roger Maris

Mickey Mantle

 

 

Since then, three more players have won back-to-back MVPs on four occasion (Bonds twice, Pujols and Thomas).

[OleMissCub]

Hmm

 

C - Berra

1b - Greenberg?

2b - Morgan

3b - Schmidt?

SS - Banks

OF - Mantle

OF - Maris

OF - Dale Murphy

P - Koufax?

[javy knows my name]

Hmm

 

C - Berra

1b - Greenberg?

2b - Morgan

3b - Schmidt?

SS - Banks

OF - Mantle

OF - Maris

OF - Dale Murphy

P - Koufax?

 

Jesus damn.

[SouthSideRyan]

I knew 2.

[Sammy Sofa]

I knew one.

[TruffleShuffle]

Hmm

 

C - Berra

1b - Greenberg?

2b - Morgan

3b - Schmidt?

SS - Banks

OF - Mantle

OF - Maris

OF - Dale Murphy

P - Koufax?

 

i'm impressed. never would've thought of murphy, and didn't realize that maris had a second mvp-worthy season.

 

pretty amazing that willie mays led the NL in WAR 10 times and only won MVP twice.

[Guest]

Somebody told me this question the other day and while the answers are correct, I don't think they are the only answers.

 

Who are the only four players to start and end their career in the same city but with different teams? The answers given were Ruth, Mays, Aaron and Foxx. I can't believe that there are only four players ever in baseball history to do this. I was thinking just now that I might not be remembering the full question and that it's only four HOFers who have done this but I'm not sure on that either.

 

Anyone (OMC) have some info on this?

[TruffleShuffle]

Somebody told me this question the other day and while the answers are correct, I don't think they are the only answers.

 

Who are the only four players to start and end their career in the same city but with different teams? The answers given were Ruth, Mays, Aaron and Foxx. I can't believe that there are only four players ever in baseball history to do this. I was thinking just now that I might not be remembering the full question and that it's only four HOFers who have done this but I'm not sure on that either.

 

Anyone (OMC) have some info on this?

 

well, yogi berra had a handful of at bats for the mets, so there's one, and it also rules out that those are the only four HOF'ers to do so. just a quick wander through the B-R tool shows that phil linz, marvelous marv throneberry and ricky ledee started out with the yankees and finished with the mets. darryl strawberry started with the mets and finished with the yankees. i'm sure there are others.

[NewUserName]

Ron Santo

[TruffleShuffle]

Ron Santo

 

i prefer to pretend that whole white sox thing never happened.

[Guest]

Thanks for the help. It didn't sound right but I wasn't sure how to go about figuring out on my own.

[dcvalpo]

Add Rogers Hornsby to the list of HOF players starting and ending in the same city.

[Garwilly]

This seems to be the issue:

 

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ycn-9025083

[sweetpeteman]

Add Rogers Hornsby to the list of HOF players starting and ending in the same city.

 

 

Tony Lazzeri

Ernie Lombardi

Jim Bottomley

Freddie Lindstrom

High Pockets Kelly

Waite Hoyt

 

 

Sam Thompson (Pre-1900)

[Clem Fandango]

This seems to be the issue:

 

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ycn-9025083

 

That's just showing the members of the 600 home run club, though, not any player.

 

Though it is pretty cool how, assuming Thome retires this year, he'll be the 6th player of 8 total players in baseball history with 600 home runs to start and end his career in the same city.

[Guest]

Who couldn't forget High Pockets Kelly?

[OleMissCub]

Awesome. Baseball recovered from the 1862 Battle of Shiloh.

 

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/02/04/civil_war_baseball_a_ball_used_by_soldiers_before_fighting_at_shiloh.html

 

This ball was found and retrieved in 1862 in Shiloh, in southwestern Tennessee, on the grounds of one of the Civil War’s bloodiest battles. The ball is inscribed: “Picked Up on the Battle Field at Shiloh by G.F. Hellum.” Giles Hellum was an African-American who worked as an orderly for the Union Army at Shiloh. He later enlisted as a soldier in the 69th Colored Infantry.

 

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr02/2013/2/5/16/enhanced-buzz-wide-9300-1360100343-4.jpg

[Ding Dong Johnson]

That is awesome.