OleMissCub

Probably library of congress? I know he's gotten old pics from there before. Found most of them there.

hello Deadball Era

I'll be damned.

I wonder at what point do they start the "Jim Leyland heart attack countdown".

Wanted to share some photos from the 1908 season. 1908 Chicago Cubs, 99-55. http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/cubsteam.jpg http://memory.loc.gov/ndlpcoop/ichicdn/s0069/s006934a.jpg The West Side Grounds in 1908. Home of the Chicago Cubs 1893-1915. Dimensions: left field 340 feet, center field 560 feet :shock: , right field 316 feet http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/CubsGiants.jpg Mordecai Brown (age 31), pitcher: (1908) 29-9, 44 games, 9 shutouts, 5 saves, 1.47 ERA, 0.842 WHIP, 160 ERA+ http://memory.loc.gov/ndlpcoop/ichicdn/s0022/s002297.jpg http://memory.loc.gov/ndlpcoop/ichicdn/s0534/s053479.jpg http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/Pitcher13.jpg http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/threefinger.jpg Johnny Kling (32), catcher: 126 games, .276/.315/.382, 119 OPS+, 59 RBI, 16 SB http://memory.loc.gov/ndlpcoop/ichicdn/s0043/s004342.jpg http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/kling.jpg Frank Chance (31), first base/manager: 129 games, .272/.338/.363, 120 OPS+, 55 RBI, 27 SB http://memory.loc.gov/ndlpcoop/ichicdn/s0043/s004357.jpg http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/3342/chance1wv5.jpg http://memory.loc.gov/ndlpcoop/ichicdn/n0534/n053450.jpg http://memory.loc.gov/ndlpcoop/ichicdn/s0544/s054413.jpg http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/chancerun.jpg http://memory.loc.gov/ndlpcoop/ichicdn/s0055/s005542.jpg Honus Wagner sliding back into first base. Chance is the first baseman in this photo. http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/wagnerslide.jpg Johnny Evers (26), second base: 126 games, .300/.402/.375, 144 OPS+, 37 RBI, 36 SB http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/evers.jpg http://memory.loc.gov/ndlpcoop/ichicdn/s0524/s052496.jpg http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/eversplate.jpg Joe Tinker (27), shortstop: 157 games, .266/.307.391, 119 OPS+, 68 RBI, 30 SB http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/tinker.jpg Harry Steinfeldt (30), third base: 150 games, .241/.294/.306, 88 OPS+, 62 RBI, 12 SB http://memory.loc.gov/ndlpcoop/ichicdn/s0538/s053843.jpg http://memory.loc.gov/ndlpcoop/ichicdn/s0544/s054439.jpg Frank Schulte (25), centerfield: 102 games, .236/.294/.306, 88 OPS+, 43 RBI, 15 SB http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/schulte.jpg Jimmy Slagle (34), rightfield: 104 games, .222/.306/.239, 72 OPS+, 26 RBI, 17 SB http://memory.loc.gov/ndlpcoop/ichicdn/s0535/s053526.jpg Jimmy Sheckard (29), leftfield: 115 games, .231/.336/.305, 102 OPS+, 22 RBI, 18 SB http://memory.loc.gov/ndlpcoop/ichicdn/s0513/s051330.jpg 1908 World Series: Chance meets with Tigers players and coaches before the game: http://memory.loc.gov/ndlpcoop/ichicdn/s0535/s053543.jpg http://memory.loc.gov/ndlpcoop/ichicdn/s0534/s053457.jpg Cubs players walk across the field before a game (I want one of those jackets!): http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/pregame.jpg http://memory.loc.gov/ndlpcoop/ichicdn/s0068/s006880.jpg Good view of the West Side Grounds in this pregame photo: http://memory.loc.gov/ndlpcoop/ichicdn/s0070/s007033.jpg Cubs and Tigers players with some hideous giant floral tiger in Detroit: http://memory.loc.gov/ndlpcoop/ichicdn/s0060/s006083.jpg A Cubs pitcher fielding a bunt: http://memory.loc.gov/ndlpcoop/ichicdn/s0060/s006029.jpg Tigers shortstop Charles O'Leary runs out of the box. Kling is catching. http://memory.loc.gov/ndlpcoop/ichicdn/s0546/s054675.jpg Tigers centerfielder Ty Cobb runs out of the box. Kling is catching. http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/cobb.jpg Slagle hitting a pop up: http://memory.loc.gov/ndlpcoop/ichicdn/s0060/s006084.jpg Crowd on the field in Chicago: http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/fans.jpg

Just an FYI, the 1988 Orioles have the worst recorded start to a season when they went 0-21.

This was what Costas (future commissioner of MLB :beg:) was advocating in Fair Ball.

Gonna go with the local boys. GO TIGERS!!

Hell ya! Warning track power!

Fuku sold that well. I thought he was going.

The plate is 17 inches not 20.

How very "cubbish" of the Pirates.

That's a good point. I'd be fine with it during exhibitions, etc.

CINCINNATI Reds games are blacked out for me in MISSISSIPPI. Enough said.

Apparently Ted Lilly's great-grandfather was actually IN the famous photo of the Rough Riders on San Juan Hill. The Pittsburgh FSN broadcasters were talking about it and showed the picture and circled him. Pretty dang neat.

So much of playing baseball is that you have to play BOTH offense and defense. It'd be like in basketball if there was a rule where the centers could just park in the paint the whole game.

He is just CRUSHING everything. That ball was crying for its mother. Holy shiznet.

The DH was just a gimmick from the 70's like colored baseballs or shorts as uniform pants that happened to catch on. Should be done away with.

For some reason my first thought when I clicked on this thread was that it was about Jerome WALTON, not Williams.

Preach it Bob! DH is a sin!

It happens every night to me.

Same here...except it's at 2 AM my time.

"Robbed" is a bit much. Beasley is clearly the better player, but I think the thing that most set TH over Beasley is that he's a junior whereas MB is a freshman. Now you want to talk about "robbed" see NL MVP 2007. Giving someone an award because they are a junior as opposed to a freshman is an absolutely hideous impersonation of a joke. Beasley is a better player than Hansbrough and put up better numbers on a crappier team, and his reward for carrying a team that would've won 12 games without him to the NCAA tournament is to get passed up by a dude who tonight was the ringleader of his team's biggest weakness - interior defense. How many alley-oops did Kansas throw down tonight, and where was the national player of the year to do anything about them? I didn't say it was right for them to do it, but that I suspect that's one of the main reasons why TH got it. I may be completely and utterly wrong.

"Robbed" is a bit much. Beasley is clearly the better player, but I think the thing that most set TH over Beasley is that he's a junior whereas MB is a freshman. Now you want to talk about "robbed" see NL MVP 2007.