http://farm9.static.flickr.com/8477/...a0ea10f5_o.png
I might add, those uniforms are "sweet." Love the way they used to wear the windbreakers under the vests!
Cool. Thanks for posting. Those are really stylish -- but it looks like it would be a little toasty in there...
“Every level he goes to, he is going to compete. They will know who he is at every level he goes to.” -- ED on EDLC
I think they used to wear those windbreakers under the uniforms in ST back in the day; you see that look a lot on old baseball cards.
Not unusual for guys to come into camp overweight, and use the entire training camp for getting back into ballplaying shape.
sorry we're boring
Growing up in Deer Park where I went to St. John's, it wasn't unusual in the winter to have some kid say at school that their dad had been up at school playing basketball with some Red player or another. Usually one of the black players (I recall Pinson and Robinson in particular) since many of them lived in Kennedy Heights or Silverton, both suburbs where blacks lived.
“In the same way that a baseball season never really begins, it never really ends either.” - Lonnie Wheeler, "Bleachers, A Summer in Wrigley Field"
The Baseball Emporium - Books & Things.
The Baseball Bookstore
http://tsc-sales.com/
http://tscsales.blogspot.com/
http://silverscreenbooks.com/
“In the same way that a baseball season never really begins, it never really ends either.” - Lonnie Wheeler, "Bleachers, A Summer in Wrigley Field"
The Baseball Emporium - Books & Things.
The Baseball Bookstore
http://tsc-sales.com/
http://tscsales.blogspot.com/
http://silverscreenbooks.com/
Happy Birthday, young man!
I hated it, Randy! In my annual youthful trek to get the entire Topps set (one pack at a time) those windbreaker shots bothered me. It just looked "wrong" to me as a kid. As an adult it looks beyond "dorky" to me (like the uniform for the Tri Lambda softball team).
The only thing worse than the windbreaker... the painted-on hat. For those too young to know what this means... sometimes a player would get traded and Topps would not have a picture of that player in his new uniform. They would paint that new team's hat on that player. This was before photoshop and all that crap, so it was very obvious that it was a "paint job" (as my friends and I called it lol).
A funny site for bad baseball cards...
http://reallybadbaseballcards.blogspot.com/
I met Frank Robby twice as a kid and both times he refused to give me an autograph.Pinson on the other hand was one of the nicest players I have ever met.
"Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser."
Board Moderators may, at their discretion and judgment, delete and/or edit any messages that violate any of the following guidelines: 1. Explicit references to alleged illegal or unlawful acts. 2. Graphic sexual descriptions. 3. Racial or ethnic slurs. 4. Use of edgy language (including masked profanity). 5. Direct personal attacks, flames, fights, trolling, baiting, name-calling, general nuisance, excessive player criticism or anything along those lines. 6. Posting spam. 7. Each person may have only one user account. It is fine to be critical here - that's what this board is for. But let's not beat a subject or a player to death, please. |