Saturday Name That Cub

by Al on Feb 14, 2009 2:31 PM CST in Name That Cub Comment 28 comments

Let'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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moe drabowsky

by doofus cubs guy on Feb 14, 2009 3:08 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Nope.

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al on Feb 14, 2009 3:10 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Hiram Bithorn

Way back... outta here!!!

by Chubby Hugs on Feb 14, 2009 3:46 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Little known fact that he was.......

1st Puerto Rican to make it to the big league

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by Clutche on Feb 14, 2009 3:52 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

That fact is true.

But it’s not who is in the photo.

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by Al on Feb 14, 2009 3:57 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Earl Averill?

by cubbybear on Feb 14, 2009 4:00 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

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.

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by Al on Feb 14, 2009 4:04 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

They called him Godfather...

…but he’s Vito Valentinetti by any other name.

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by Sir Max on Feb 14, 2009 4:12 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Just beat me

Nice theme today Al.

Way back... outta here!!!

by Chubby Hugs on Feb 14, 2009 4:14 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Nice job

by cubbybear on Feb 14, 2009 4:19 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

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”.

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by Al on Feb 14, 2009 4:19 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Walter John "Monk" Dubiel?

by cubbybear on Feb 14, 2009 4:17 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

See above for the winner.

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al on Feb 14, 2009 4:20 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Ok, I'm to late to win, but

he DOES have a baseball in the glove, Al. Look closely . . .

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by Shanghai Badger on Feb 14, 2009 4:33 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Where?

Hidden behind his hand?

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by Al on Feb 14, 2009 4:40 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

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.

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by Shanghai Badger on Feb 14, 2009 4:42 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

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.

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by Al on Feb 14, 2009 5:42 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

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.

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by Shanghai Badger on Feb 14, 2009 6:04 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Posed? Check out this 1st baseball from the same 1957 Topps set

What’s wrong with this picture?

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by flachimesa on Feb 14, 2009 7:17 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

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.

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by Al on Feb 14, 2009 7:52 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Uh

The guy is this picture is wearing a glove on his right hand. How is that inconsistent with being lefthanded?

by azjazzman on Feb 16, 2009 12:01 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

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

by Al on Feb 16, 2009 4:14 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

It says first base......

…. but if you look at the infield behind him, he’s over at third.

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by BeerCub on Feb 14, 2009 8:38 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

and in foul territory to boot...

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by ballhawk on Feb 15, 2009 12:12 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

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

by BeerCub on Feb 14, 2009 8:40 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I'm watching the Godfather (Part 2) right now

How fitting.

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by AceCubbie on Feb 14, 2009 9:07 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

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.
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by Fanzone on Feb 15, 2009 2:24 AM CST reply actions 0 recs