Saturday Name That Cub
by Al Yellon on Feb 14, 2009 2:31 PM CST
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PrintLet's interrupt our steroid discussion for a bit. Name this old-time Cub. As usual, a $10 gift card from Distant Replays to the first person with the correct ID. (Previous winners not eligible) Don't you love those old-style posed photos where the pitcher doesn't even have a ball in his glove?
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Little known fact that he was.......
1st Puerto Rican to make it to the big league
If you had to choose just one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.
That fact is true.
But it’s not who is in the photo.
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
This is Averill.
And this gets my vote for “Worst Attempt To Change A Baseball Player’s Card Photo To Match His New Team”:
The Cubs got him from Cleveland before the 1959 season.
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
They called him Godfather...
…but he’s Vito Valentinetti by any other name.
"Make sure you go to other peoples' funerals; otherwise they won't go to yours." --Yogi Berra
DINGDINGDING!!!
Winner. Was wondering how long it would take people to figure out the holiday theme of today’s selection.
According to this, Valentinetti was once voted to have “the most Italian name in baseball history”.
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
See above for the winner.
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
Ok, I'm to late to win, but
he DOES have a baseball in the glove, Al. Look closely . . .
Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! --Homer J. Simpson
by Shanghai Badger on Feb 14, 2009 4:33 PM CST reply actions
Where?
Hidden behind his hand?
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
It sure looks like it's between his thumb and forefinger
Unless that’s just how his fingers are sitting in the glove. Maybe it’s the quailty of the pic.
Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! --Homer J. Simpson
by Shanghai Badger on Feb 14, 2009 4:42 PM CST up reply actions
I think a baseball is too large to be in that small space.
IIRC many of the Topps card photos from that era were posed without baseballs in the glove. Why, I have no idea.
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
Yeah, maybe so
I just looked his info up; he’s no bigger than I am. If he was 6’5" / 220, that would be more likely that a baseball could fit.
Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! --Homer J. Simpson
by Shanghai Badger on Feb 14, 2009 6:04 PM CST up reply actions
Posed? Check out this 1st baseball from the same 1957 Topps set
What’s wrong with this picture?
"Every team will win 60 games, every team will lose 60 games, it's what the team does in the other 42 games that decides the season."
LOL
That’s not his glove, obviously. Hale was lefthanded.
But they probably let him have a ball in his glove because he wasn’t a pitcher.
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
Uh
The guy is this picture is wearing a glove on his right hand. How is that inconsistent with being lefthanded?
I looked at it again.
It looks, at first glance, like he’s wearing a fielder’s glove backwards.
But a closer look shows it’s a lefthanded first baseman’s glove.
Which is exactly what this LH first baseman should be wearing.
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
It says first base......
…. but if you look at the infield behind him, he’s over at third.
"When they signed Fukudome, I knew they were trying to get me fired". - Ron Santo, January, 2008
I think there is a ball there....
… way back on his fingers. The glove is open enough to accomodate one. Which isn’t to say Topps didn’t pose guys without baseballs, but I think there is one in this picture.
"When they signed Fukudome, I knew they were trying to get me fired". - Ron Santo, January, 2008
Name that Cub
I still have my 1958 Topps Vito Valentinetti baseball card. And I’d be happy to sell it to you for 3 thousand dollars This was the year that Topps thought that that it was ok to use pink as a background color for their later series cards. Fifty years later, It’s still not ok to use pink..
My all time favorite common baseball card was Detroit Tigers Reno Bertoia. Next in line would be K.C. A’s Jerry Lumpe. The Mickey Mantle cards just weren’t there dude. They all went to Billy Crystal, so they say.
Ed
You mean this card?
You’re right. It’s not OK to use pink.
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
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