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.
about 3 years ago
digitalbenjamin
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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
Hmmmm, well...
…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 I mean, look at those high socks – how outdated!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)
Nicely done
"I like coconuts, you can break them open and they smell like ladies lying in the sun" Widespread Panic
Prior?
There's nothing wrong with this team that more pitching, more fielding and more hitting couldn't help......"--Bill Buckner
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)
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
I heard Martha Stewart did the first one.
She fashioned a cudgel out of a plunger handle and an oversize paperweight and went to town.
RIP Ron Asheton (1948-2009)
Antonio Alfonseca?
Evey Hammond: Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici. V: By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.
just looks like some random Cubs employee to me.
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A former employee, methinks.
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
That must be
A towel he is throwing, cuz I cannot remember him throwing a ball
"I like coconuts, you can break them open and they smell like ladies lying in the sun" Widespread Panic
Hrm...
Is that Ernie Broglio?
What? Did I touch the wrong nerve?
Look at the size of the legs on that guy...
Is he deformed? Also, are we sure he was a Cub pitcher? He looks like he’s playing jai alai by flinging that basket looking thingy.
Well... I'm back...
I can’t believe no one has got this yet….
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by digitalbenjamin on Jan 22, 2009 9:11 AM CST reply actions
Ohhh you did say Horace Percival Bogdonavitch?
then yes, you are correct sir
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by digitalbenjamin on Jan 22, 2009 11:59 AM CST up reply actions





















