UMDB missing faces

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

These are the 138 players who currently don' t have mug shots on the UMDB. That doesn't mean that each one of them has been elusive. There are some for whom I've only seen inadequate photos. Others I probably haven't even looked for. The sequence is in order of priority.

For those of you who may have forgotten:

• The photo has to have the player in a Mets cap or helmet, without benefit of Photoshopping.
  
• Blue caps are preferred wherever possible.
  
• Color beats black and white. I try to avoid b&w shots for any players from 1970 or later. (I think the only exceptions have been Jack Aker and Larry Bowa.)
  
• Those studio mugshots where the player is in front of a blank wall are a last resort.
  
  

  1. Bob Gibson 2. Mauro Gozzo 3. Steve Bieser 4. Alvaro Espinoza 5. Chuck McElroy 6. Bobby Jones 7. Allen Watson 8. Bruce Bochy 9. Billy Taylor 10. Cory Lidle 11. Toby Borland 12. Ron Herbel 13. Jim Gosger 14. Dale Murray 15. Willie Blair 16. Dick Stuart 17. C. J. Nitkowski 18. Mark Guthrie 19. Pat Tabler 20. Rick White 21. Herm Winningham 22. Wayne Kirby 23. Mac Scarce

  24. Jim Tatum 25. Jim Dwyer 26. Donne Wall 27. Doc Medich 28. Jay Kleven 29. Dwight Bernard 30. Rick Wilkins 31. Ryan McGuire 32. Mike Bishop 33. Darrin Jackson 34. Jorge Fabregas 35. Dick Tidrow 36. Brad Clontz 37. Wes Gardner 38. McKay Christensen 39. Tom Sturdivant 40. Brent Strom 41. Kane Davis 42. Esix Snead 43. Mario Diaz 44. Jaime Cerda 45. John Thomson 46. Butch Metzger

  47. Jerry May 48. Brady Clark 49. Dennis Springer 50. Eric Cammack 51. Jerry Martin 52. Gary Bennett 53. Tony Phillips 54. Tom Edens 55. Pedro Feliciano 56. Edwin Almonte 57. Phil Mankowski 58. Roger Mason 59. Tony Castillo 60. David Lamb 61. Bob Johnson 62. Brett Hinchliffe 63. Brock Pemberton 64. Leon Brown 65. Jorge Velandia 66. Don Schulze 67. Pat Strange 68. Don Florence 69. Jason Middlebrook

  70. Ross Jones 71. Ike Hampton 72. Danny Boitano 73. Tom Martin 74. Bob Johnson 75. Mike Birkbeck 76. Jeff Barry 77. Steve Reed 78. Jeff Tam 79. Barry Jones 80. Jonathan Hurst 81. Kenny Greer 82. Bob Gallagher 83. Dyar Miller 84. Tim Spehr 85. Shane Halter 86. Joe Nolan 87. Joe DePastino 88. Tito Navarro 89. Dave Roberts 90. Danny Garcia 91. Lou Klimchock 92. Jason Anderson

  93. Mark Little 94. Jeremy Griffiths 95. Francisco Estrada 97. Mike Glavine 96. Jeff Gardner 98. Tyler Walker 99. Joe Grzenda 100. Rick Parker 101. Shawn Hare 102. Tom Filer 103. Steve Springer 104. John Strohmayer 105. Wayne Housie 106. Todd Haney 107. Dave Eilers 108. Jim Mann 109. Mickey Weston 110. Jeff Kaiser 111. Bob Rauch 112. Kevin Morgan 113. Dan Murray 114. Juan Castillo 115. Doug Saunders

  116. Mike Fyhrie 117. Barry Manuel 118. Rich Sauveur 119. Ricky Bottalico 120. Jim Marshall 121. Don Rose 122. Nick Willhite 123. Bobby Gene Smith 124. Bill Graham 125. Heath Bell 126. Darrell Sutherland 127. Don Rowe 128. Carlos Mendoza 129. Gary Thurman 130. Mike DeJean 131. Matt Watson 132. Jos� Parra 133. Brian Buchanan 134. Tom Wilson 135. Mike DiFelice 136. Juan Padilla 137. Anderson Hernandez 138. Jos� Santiago

  
  

  
  

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Here's Jaime Cerda, with a young fan -

[Guest Edgy DC]

C.J. Nitkowski.



The only man to report that God didn't want him to be a Met.

[Elster88]

MiniKnight is probably far and away the most photographed individual on this forum.


Ty Walker:

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Edgy DC wrote: C.J. Nitkowski. The only man to report that God didn't want him to be a Met.

Nobody else did, either.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Does a B-Mets cap count? lubitul took this photo of Eric Cammack -

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Matt Watson, as a B-Met (again, a lubitul shot) -

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Pat Strange -

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Nope, B-Mets don't count, but thanks anyway.

I'll use the Cerda picture (don't be offended if I edit out the red hair near his neck!) and maybe the Nitkowski. The Walker picture is too grainy, however, and on an artificial background, something else I prefer to avoid.

But thanks, though. I appreciate all of the pictures, even the ones I can't or don't use.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Edit away Yancy.

Cerda was very nice to my kids on a couple of occasions. This was one of them - I was trying to snap a picture while he was signing for MK, and Cerda suggested that they pose for the photo.

The other time was when we were in Milwaukee in 2002. We were in front of the Mets' hotel when they were coming out to go on the bus to the stadium. Cerda was on his cell phone, and couldn't handle juggling the phone and trying to sign autographs for the kids, so he told the person on the phone that he was busy and that he'd have to call him back. He was a nice guy with kids.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

]You can't go wrong with cocktail weenies. They taste as good as they look, and they come with this delicious red sauce. It looks like ketchup. It tastes like ketchup. But brother, it ain't ketchup!

That sounds like something that Randy would say on My Name is Earl.

Is that where that's from?

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

No - it's from The Simpsons' Black Widower episode, from Season Three. Aunt Selma marries Sideshow Bob in the episode - one of my favorite Simpsons episodes ever. Plus, considering how bogged down I am in party details at the moment, I couldn't resist using that tag line for a while.

Meanwhile, this photo of Mike Bacsik is better than the one you have on your site, IMO -

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Bottalico
(The first link I saw on google (when I spelled his name wrong) called him Blowtalico and suggested he was "the worst Royal ever".)

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Danny Garcia

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Here's Rick White -

[A Boy Named Seo]

Can't help you with a blue hat, but here's a couple Guthrie's. Don't ask me why I have two photos of Mark Guthrie.



Snead:



Jersey Jones:



White:



Kane:



Cerda:



Thomson:



Brady Clark:



Strange:



Middlebrook:



Steve Reed:

[Guest Edgy DC]

MLB.com has a lot of the back-end 2005 mets guys. Not blue caps or anything, Or does their history of phtoshoppage ban all thier photos? The Mets were the only teams these guys played for, so they should be real hats.

Andy Hernandez



Mickey DiFelice



Juanito Padilla



The awesome nostrils of Josito Santiago

[Guest Edgy DC]

Felicity:

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

It's mainly the glassy-eyed look and the solid grey background that keeps me from using such photos. I figure if I'm patient I'll find something better.

A bunch of good photos among those above. I'll certainly use the Thomson one, and I like the Steve Reed.

Can anyone track down a Mauro Gozzo? For the Other Bob Gibson, I think the only possibility would be from a WWOR or SportsChannel screen capture from the one game that he pitched in.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Maybe you can put a sub-optimal photo in there for some guys, but create a column of code in your database to remind you to keep looking for a better photo.

G = Good photo, more or less

H = need blue Hat.

C = need Color photo

B = just need Better photo.

That way guys don't get neglected while you stand on ceremony. And you can continue to approach 100%, if never perhaps quite reaching it. but I bet you thought you'd never get a Larry Bowa.

Heck, the Wifey Watch wouldn't get anywhere if I waited for good pictures.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Here's some in-action alternates, with fewer glassy eyes and grey backgrounds:

Springer:



Velandia (in orange!):



Mark Little:



Jersey:



Guthrie:



Esix:

[Guest Edgy DC]

Jersey looks mighty stoned.

Guthrie should have been released just for striking that pose.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Grey background unfortunately, but he's got a blue hat at least.

The other Glavine:

[seawolf17]

And there ain't gonna be too many "action" photos of him.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Wow, is that really Mike Glavine? I didn't even know he had ever been photographed.

Yes, that's a usable picture. Thanks!

[A Boy Named Seo]

Here's the article where I found that Glavine shot.

http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/nym/news/nym_news.jsp?ymd=20030925&content_id=543736&vkey=news_nym&fext=.jsp

[Elster88]

Middlebrook in a spring training hat:

[Elster88]

BAM



(if it's him)

[Elster88]

Here's a couple that are definitely him for comparison:

[Elster88]

Edgy DC wrote: MLB.com has a lot of the back-end 2005 mets guys. Not blue caps or anything, Or does their history of phtoshoppage ban all thier photos?

I think those get deleted each year, so hurry up and save them to your site if you're going to use them!