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mightyflynn: Nolan Ryan, Spring Training 1973 Palm Springs,...

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 19:20:37 -0500

mightyflynn:

Nolan Ryan, Spring Training 1973

Palm Springs, California

Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive, Young Research Library, UCLA. via KCET.org

baseballsdeep: 6 More Days! Photo Credits:Top Left: Stan “The...

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 09:29:02 -0500

Stan "The Man" Musial

Al Kaline, Sports Illustrated

Bobby Cox, photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty

Joe Torre, photo by Lisa Blumenfeld/Getty

Steve Garvey, photo by Walter Iooss Jr./SI

Tony Oliva

baseballsdeep:

6 More Days!

Photo Credits:
Top Left: Stan “The Man” Musial
Top Right: Al Kaline, SI
Middle Left: Bobby Cox, by Kevin C. Cox/Getty
Middle Right: Joe Torre, by Lisa Blumenfeld/Getty
Bottom Left: Steve Garvey, by Walter Iooss Jr./SI
Bottom Right: Tony Oliva

Photo

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:40:52 -0500

mightyflynn: “Stan the Man” by Steve Bledsoe and the Blue...

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 21:56:19 -0500

mightyflynn:

“Stan the Man” by Steve Bledsoe and the Blue Jays

(via @mysteryball58)

Rest in peace, Stanley Frank Musial

mightyflynn: “Here stands baseball’s perfect warrior. Here...

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 20:55:31 -0500

mightyflynn:

“Here stands baseball’s perfect warrior. Here stands baseball’s perfect knight.”

- Ford Frick on Stan Musial

1958 photo by Jack Zehrt

thegrandarchives: Rest in peace Stan the Man

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 20:54:41 -0500

thegrandarchives:

Rest in peace Stan the Man

mightyflynn: “You know that when I talked about baseball I...

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 20:52:56 -0500

mightyflynn:

“You know that when I talked about baseball I always told the truth. Well, there was one time when I lied. Whitey Platt, who used to play for the Chicago Cubs, asked me one day what the secret was to my hitting. Well, I thought I’d kid him about it, and I told him that when I was playing in a small park I would hit the bottom half of the ball to give it a rise and when I played in the longer parks I would hit the top half of the ball for line drives. Pretty soon, all the players started coming around asking me my secret for hitting the top half or bottom half of the ball.”

- Stan Musial

Photo: John Rogers archive via Paragon

oldtimefamilybaseball: In case you forgot, Pedro Martinez is...

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:06:07 -0500

oldtimefamilybaseball:

In case you forgot, Pedro Martinez is (and no, I refuse to use ‘was’) amazing. He posted two sub 2.00 ERA seasons in the height of the so-called steroid era, during which he had a seven-year run from ‘97-2003 in which he went 118-36 (one of the few times a W-L record means something) with a 2.20 ERA, 11.3 K/9, 2.0 BB/9, and lead the league in pretty much every category a pitcher can lead the league in. He was interesting, unique, electric, and quite possibly the best pitcher I’ve been alive to see. I even managed to watch him pitch against the Yankees as a member of the Expos. A team that is long dead!

Which is why, what, you’re NOT going to watch a 12 minute compilation of highlights? I thought not.

(h/t 90 feet of perfection)

mightyflynn: Hammer

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:29:38 -0500

mightyflynn:

Hammer

Photo

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 21:39:02 -0500

bobbyaguilera: Ruppert Jones was the Mariners first All-Star in...

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:24:28 -0500

bobbyaguilera:

Ruppert Jones was the Mariners first All-Star in 1977. © Seattle Mariners

mightyflynn: Strike three.

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:15:24 -0500

mightyflynn:

Strike three.

williemckay: Mickey Mantle, after hitting two home runs in the...

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:35:08 -0500

williemckay:

Mickey Mantle, after hitting two home runs in the World Series against the Pirates, Pittsburgh, 1960.

mightyflynn: Francisco Monastery, Ozzie Guillen, Argenis...

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:33:59 -0500

mightyflynn:

Francisco Monastery, Ozzie Guillen, Argenis Salazar Perez and Raul Tovar, ca. 1985

Tiburones de La Guaira

La Guaira, Venezuela

Photo: Archivo Cadena Capriles

mightyflynn: BOB CLANTON (manager, North Mission Viejo Skylarks...

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 19:31:18 -0500

mightyflynn:

BOB CLANTON (manager, North Mission Viejo Skylarks Little League team): [Nick Punto] was our best player, by a country mile. But whenever he put a ball in play and the throw went to first, he slid. Headfirst, every time. He’d just yell “GET MONEY” and slide.

JEFF ALVIN (teammate, North Mission Viejo Skylarks): every time. If he was safe, “GET PAID!”

CLANTON: we’d pull him aside and say, “Nick, you gotta run through the bag. Sliding slows you down and you’re gonna hurt yourself one of these days.” He’d just say, “Yeah, coach, got it, c’mon let’s gooooo!” Then he’d do it again anyway.

- Randball’s Stu, Twinkie Town/SB Nation

Read the rest: “An Oral History of Nick Punto Sliding Headfirst into First Base”

Photo via AaronGleeman.com

mightyflynn: 1973

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:01:52 -0500

mightyflynn:

1973

alright-hamilton: Photo day, Metropolitan Stadium 1962. My Aunt...

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 20:36:27 -0500

alright-hamilton:

Photo day, Metropolitan Stadium 1962. My Aunt digitized these old slides and gave some framed prints to my Mom for Christmas. My Grandpa was likely the photographer. My mom, 12 years old, is visible in the Athletics’ dugout on the left, and that’s my Grandma in the blue dress.

mightyflynn: 1989

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 16:44:07 -0500

mightyflynn:

1989

Photo

Tue, 25 Dec 2012 18:23:43 -0500