Baseball History Thread

[David]

Oh good lord it was a joke. I'm not reading all that. Holy horsefeathers.

[David]

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[SeldomSeen]

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Plenty of good seats still available...

[Ding Dong Johnson]

I'd love to get a framed copy of that photo

[biittner77]

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That net doesn't look like it would actually stop anything from going through.

[OleMissCub]

I'd love to get a framed copy of that photo

 

Indeed. That's a beautiful shot.

[rocket]

It's awe-inspiring even now, but I wish I could experience the pure awesomeness of seeing a live baseball game in full color up close in the 30's-60's when all you'd seen of professional baseball beforehand was grainy black and white newsreel footage.

[biittner77]

It's awe-inspiring even now, but I wish I could experience the pure awesomeness of seeing a live baseball game in full color up close in the 30's-60's when all you'd seen of professional baseball beforehand was grainy black and white newsreel footage.

There's an old series called "When it was a game" that has a lot of old home movies from the 60s that you might want to check out. There's a lot of cool field level stuff and a lot of it is in color. I picked up the 60s-70s in a discount bin somewhere. I like to show it when I talk about the civil rights movement in class.

[OleMissCub]

Neat print. Junior's cap should be backwards tho

 

http://i.imgur.com/fH6WogA.jpg

[Banedon]

Oh FFS get Jeter the horsefeathers out of there.

[OleMissCub]

Oh FFS get Jeter the horsefeathers out of there.

 

Indeed. This is the MUCH better one of those:

 

http://i.imgur.com/wzUCa01.jpg

 

http://i.imgur.com/bG89ysP.jpg

 

http://i.imgur.com/7m95tFx.jpg

 

http://i.imgur.com/x0M1LiD.jpg

[Banedon]

No Ernie Banks in either of them though.

[OleMissCub]

Well, I'd rather have A-Rod or Wagner at SS than Ernie

[treebird]

replace all those people with kyle schwarber

[Transmogrified Tiger]

replace all those people with kyle schwarber

 

I was gonna say, pretty disrespectful for none of those pictures to have Bryant.

[Banedon]

replace all those people with kyle schwarber

 

When they combine their powers, they summon Schwarber.

 

Someone should put appropriate faces on this gif.

 

http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view1/20140207/4973134/let-our-powers-combine-o.gif

[OleMissCub]

http://i.imgur.com/UglEGKk.gif

[Gmoney08]

Oh FFS get Jeter the horsefeathers out of there.

 

Indeed. This is the MUCH better one of those:

 

http://i.imgur.com/wzUCa01.jpg

 

http://i.imgur.com/bG89ysP.jpg

 

http://i.imgur.com/7m95tFx.jpg

 

http://i.imgur.com/x0M1LiD.jpg

 

Are these sold anywhere?

[Derwood]

MLB posted about a minute of color film footage from the last day at the Polo Grounds

 

 

Nothing super exciting, but still cool

[cl smooth]

MLB posted about a minute of color film footage from the last day at the Polo Grounds

 

 

Nothing super exciting, but still cool

 

i love playing at the polo grounds in the show.

[Derwood]

I'm bored so I'm making some baseball quizzes on Sporcle. I'm looking at all the first rounds of the amateur drafts, and I don't know if there was a worse year than 1975

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/?draft_type=junreg&query_type=year_round&draft_round=1&year_ID=1975

 

Rick Cerone's 8.1 career bWAR is #1 in that year's first round, and all the players in the first round combined for a 10.7 career bWAR. WOOF

 

 

ETA: By contrast, the 1977 draft has six players with a career bWAR over 20, with a total round career bWAR of 264.8

[Derwood]

Just for fun, the career bWAR of all the #1 overall picks since 1965

 

* = no MLB service time

bold = still active

 

117.7 - Alex Rodriguez (1993)

85.0 - Chipper Jones (1990)

83.6 - Ken Griffey Jr. (1987)

50.0 - Joe Mauer (2001)

43.8 - Adrian Gonzalez (2000)

42.0 - Darryl Strawberry (1980)

38.5 - Harold Baines (1977)

34.3 - B.J. Surhoff (1985)

33.1 - Rick Monday (1965)

32.3 - Darin Erstad (1995)

31.9 - David Price (2007)

31.7 - Andy Benes (1988)

28.5 - Mike Moore (1981)

28.1 - Josh Hamilton (1999)

26.9 - Floyd Bannister (1976)

26.7 - Justin Upton (2005)

26.2 - Tim Belcher (1983)

21.7 - Bob Horner (1978)

21.5 - Bryce Harper (2010)

20.9 - Ben McDonald (1989)

18.8 - Pat Burrell (1998)

18.2 - Stephen Strasburg (2009)

17.6 - Jeff Burroughs (1969)

16.7 - Jeff King (1986)

15.8 - Phil Nevin (1992)

13.0 - Kris Benson (1996)

11.5 - Shawon Dunston (1982)

10.1 - Carlos Correa (2012)

9.4 - Gerrit Cole (2011)

9.4 - Ron Blomberg (1967)

7.2 - Mike Ivie (1970)

5.5 - Tim Foli (1968)

4.8 - Bill Almon (1974)

3.1 - Luke Hochever (2006)

2.5 - Delmon Young (2003)

2.2 - Paul Wilson (1994)

2.1 - Matt Bush (2004)

1.3 - Tim Beckham (2008)

0.7 - David Clyde (1973)

0.4 - Dave Roberts (1972)

0.0 - Mickey Moniak (2016) *

0.0 - Dansby Swanson (2015) *

0.0 - Brady Aiken (2014) *

0.0 - Mark Appel (2013) *

0.0 - Brien Taylor (1991) *

0.0 - Steven Chilcott (1966) *

-0.2 - Bryan Bullington (2002)

-0.5 - Matt Anderson (1997)

-0.5 - Al Chambers (1979)

-1.3 - Shawn Abner (1984)

-1.7 - Danny Goodwin (1975+1971)

[OleMissCub]

Kinda surprised to see Burrell with so low an fWAR. He put up some pretty strong offensive numbers throughout his career. Although I guess that was the only thing he did well.

[Derwood]

Kinda surprised to see Burrell with so low an fWAR. He put up some pretty strong offensive numbers throughout his career. Although I guess that was the only thing he did well.

 

This is bWAR, not fWAR, though Fangraphs only has him slightly higher at 19.0

[OleMissCub]

Kinda surprised to see Burrell with so low an fWAR. He put up some pretty strong offensive numbers throughout his career. Although I guess that was the only thing he did well.

 

This is bWAR, not fWAR, though Fangraphs only has him slightly higher at 19.0

 

I see now. Regardless, that's pretty low for a guy with 300 HR.