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.
10 months 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 0 recs
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 I mean, look at those high socks – how outdated!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)
by dat cubfan daver on Jan 20, 2009 10:34 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
lol. that made me laugh (as evidenced by the "lol")
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by digitalbenjamin on Jan 20, 2009 10:35 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Nicely done
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by Cubbie-Tim on Jan 20, 2009 3:43 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
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 0 recs
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 dat cubfan daver on Jan 20, 2009 12:04 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
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 0 recs
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.
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by Trey2317 on Jan 20, 2009 3:24 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
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)
by dat cubfan daver on Jan 20, 2009 5:08 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
/facepalm
Very funny :D
What to do, with Larry Hughe?
by Rudey on Jan 20, 2009 12:58 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Antonio Alfonseca?
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by dtpollitt on Jan 20, 2009 1:14 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
just looks like some random Cubs employee to me.
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by tony412 on Jan 20, 2009 3:08 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
A former employee, methinks.
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by Al on Jan 20, 2009 4:07 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
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
by Cubbie-Tim on Jan 20, 2009 3:41 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Hrm...
Is that Ernie Broglio?
What? Did I touch the wrong nerve?
by northernsails on Jan 21, 2009 3:28 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
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.
by N Oakley on Jan 21, 2009 8:41 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
that's why they called him Calfzilla
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by digitalbenjamin on Jan 21, 2009 10:45 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
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 0 recs
Wait, are you saying I'm wrong?
RIP Ron Asheton (1948-2009)
by dat cubfan daver on Jan 22, 2009 9:27 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
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 0 recs


















