Mystery Motion! You guys are NEVER gonna get this one. But I thought I'd post it here anyway. I'll...

Mystery Motion!

You guys are NEVER gonna get this one. But I thought I'd post it here anyway. I'll check back in later this week to see if anyone happened to figure it out.

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Goose Gossage?

"Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living." ~Alvin Dark

by DamonBerryhillsMitt on Jan 20, 2009 10:32 AM CST reply actions

…based on the uniform style, logo size and condition of the ivy, I’ll say that this picture was definitely taken in the early 20th Century. No later than 1920. I mean, look at those high socks – how outdated!

Now combing through my archives of obscure Cubs pitchers, my guess is that’s Horace Percival Bogdonavitch, the son of Russian immigrants who made several starts for the 1913 team before being trampled to death by horse carts outside a Clark Street brothel. Tragic story, really.

Oh, and about the towel, that’s how pitchers back then signaled they wanted to take a smoke break with their catchers. It was allowed in those days, y’know.

RIP Ron Asheton (1948-2009)

by daver on Jan 20, 2009 10:34 AM CST reply actions

lol. that made me laugh (as evidenced by the "lol")

I haz blurg: hotbeans.wordpress.com

by digitalbenjamin on Jan 20, 2009 10:35 AM CST up reply actions

Nicely done

"I like coconuts, you can break them open and they smell like ladies lying in the sun" Widespread Panic

by Cubbie-Tim on Jan 20, 2009 3:43 PM CST up reply actions

Prior?

There's nothing wrong with this team that more pitching, more fielding and more hitting couldn't help......"--Bill Buckner

by laidbackliam on Jan 20, 2009 11:45 AM CST reply actions

Huh?

You mean Mark Prior? The USC guy? He never pitched for the Cubs. He quit baseball after college and used his finance degree to become the head of a major investement firm. He was recently convicted of insider trading and is currently serving 15 years in a minimum security prison in northern California. Tragic story, really.

RIP Ron Asheton (1948-2009)

by daver on Jan 20, 2009 12:04 PM CST up reply actions

man, i forgot

you sure the prison isn’t in san diego? or an affiliate program of that prison?

There's nothing wrong with this team that more pitching, more fielding and more hitting couldn't help......"--Bill Buckner

by laidbackliam on Jan 20, 2009 12:38 PM CST up reply actions

Y'know, minimum-security prison is no picnic.

I have a client in there right now. He says the trick is: kick someone’s ass the first day, or become someone’s bitch. Then everything will be all right.

I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am. - Ryne Sandberg

by Bill Potter on Jan 20, 2009 3:24 PM CST up reply actions