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Pastime Portraiture, #6
Ralph Kiner, spring training, Tuscon, AZ, March 1955. Kiner’s final spring, and final season. After nine seasons in the NL, and a bad back betraying the prolific slugger, he would spend 1955 with the...
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Pastime Portraiture, #7
Rare shot of Willie Mays, spring training, 1950′s. There is nothing I can add to this photo, just enjoy it. This Mays shot is not at this site, but still, hundreds of classic photos from Hy Peskin:...
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Camera Day at classic Shea!
Hello all, been so busy with work lately that I haven’t had much time to write or research, so getting by with ninja strikes of great photos for a short while. Here’s some photos that I took at Camera...
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Go RAy Jays!
Alright, this has nothing to do with a classic ballpark, but as a diehard Mets fan, I’d say R.A.Dickey gave us plenty of classic baseball. Anyway, here’s a cool logo I designed for MLB’s renaissance...
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Burns-Eye Views of Big Time Parks, #10 – Comiskey Park
In 1937, Ed Burns, a sportswriter for the Chicago Tribune, penned a series of articles on every major league park at the time (15 articles in all, of 16 parks for 16 teams; the Cardinals and Browns...
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Hal Smith: Bucs Bridesmaid, World Series Hero
What a moment! Roberto Clemente and Dick Groat celebrate as the Pirates’ Hal Smith hits an unbelievably clutch 2-strike, 2-out, 3-run blast off the Yankees’ Jim Coates in the bottom of the 8th inning...
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The Last Summer at the Polo Grounds
A while back I had found some great fan photos of the old park in Cincinnati, in its last season, and posted them as The Last Summer at Crosley Field. Well, here’s some newly discovered photos from...
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Meanwhile in 2013…
Sorry classic baseball lovers for my lack of posts lately; this is the time of year where the new baseball season eclipses my love for baseball past. That and an exceptionally busy work schedule has...
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Burns-Eye Views of Big Time Parks, #11 (and #11a) – Cleveland Municipal...
In 1937, Ed Burns, a sportswriter for the Chicago Tribune, penned a series of articles on every major league park at the time (15 articles in all, of 16 parks for 16 teams; the Cardinals and Browns...
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A Moment In Time – 6/14/32
Navin Field, Detroit, Tuesday, June 14, 1932, Jimmie Foxx crosses the plate in the top of the 5th inning after hitting his first of two HRs on the day, a 3 run blast off Vic Sorrell with fellow future...
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Radio Broadcast – 4/22/50, Dodgers vs Giants, Ebbets Field
Here’s my third YouTube upload of a classic radio broadcast – April 1950, Dodgers vs Giants, Ebbets Field, Red Barber, can’t get any better than that. From the YT page details: Red Barber in his...
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A Moment In Time – 7/5/37
Turning back the clock to National League baseball in Boston, Monday, July 5, 1937, Braves Field (or the Bee Hive). NY Giants the visitors, second game of a doubleheader, bottom of the 7th inning, and...
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Yankee Stadium Yogi
Returning to my blog after a long absence, but I’ll keep it short and sweet – on this day of memorials to the great Yogi Berra, a few rare photos of him at Yankee Stadium in the 1950’s, from various...
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Burns-Eye Views of Big Time Parks – COMPLETE SET from the 1937 Chicago...
In 1937, Ed Burns, a sportswriter for the Chicago Tribune, penned a series of articles on every major league park at the time (15 articles in all, of 16 parks for 16 teams; the Cardinals and Browns...
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Pastime Press: Shoeless Joe Jackson and the WWI draft, Chicago...
100 years ago, 1919, as is well known to classic baseball fans, was the season of the infamous Black Sox Scandal. As an interesting preface to that startling development, there was an earlier...
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In Memoriam: Don Newcombe
Quick post on Don Newcombe, one of the last remaining Brooklyn Dodgers and Negro League players, sadly passing today at 92. Newcombe “Firsts”: NL Rookie of the Year. Cy Young Award. African-American...
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Tom Seaver bids farewell
(Via Twitter) Nothing but terrific thoughts for Tom Seaver, as he retires from public life to battle dementia. As a lifelong Mets fan, Tom is one of my all-time baseball heroes and a large part of my...
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A Moment in Time – 3/8/68: Tom Seaver and Gil Hodges, Al Lang Field
(Via Twitter) Tom Seaver with Gil Hodges in Gil’s first camp as Mets manager, Al Lang Field, St Petersburg, March 8, 1968, by Bob Moreland of the St Petersburg Times. “No one had more impact on my...
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Quick Pitch: Ralph Kiner’s first Spring Training
(Via Twitter) 18-year-old Ralph Kiner flips his lid at his first pro camp, Perris Hill Park, San Bernardino, CA, 1941. Sent to Albany (A), led league in HRs in ’42, but drafted ’43 & Navy pilot in...
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Pastime Portraiture: Stan Musial
(Via Twitter) 21-yr-old Stan Musial at Sportsman’s Park, Friday, April 10, 1942. Stan and the Cardinals were working out at the stadium, as they had just arrived north for a weekend City Series with...
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