The most inneresting photos you can find

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

That would be Billy Baldwin, brother of Alec and Steven and a proud Berner High School grad from Massapqeua!

[Guest cooby]

The Mets one is tons cuter

[Guest Edgy DC]

James Baldwin.

[stevejrogers]

Kind of an old school looking image on this UD Rookie card.

Guy made an All Star Game in 2000 and won, Al Leiter got the loss in that one

Off the top of my head he has to be the Met with the most notoriety as a MLBer, with the least amount of games played as a Met (not counting all those who never ending up playing a game for the Mets).

At least pitching wise, as I just remember Gary Matthews Jr. also logged in 2 games as a Met

[stevejrogers]

Okay, I've been proven wrong by a 1991 20 game winner and consistant member of the Twins and Orioles staff during the 1990's, Scott Erickson also with 2 Metly games.

Rick Baldwin is on the clock...

[Guest Edgy DC]

Somebody grab the mic and do something interesting.

[Guest abogdan]

Rick Baldwin with Carp:



Rick Baldwin with Cap:

[Guest Edgy DC]

Wow, looks like they were in a hurry to reassign 45.

Brian Bannister, come on down. What's the most interesting photo of this interesting photographer? Andy why?

[stevejrogers]

DOWN GOES BANNISTER! DOWN GOES BANNISTER!

[Guest Edgy DC]

Not a whole lot of photo-essays out there about futility infielder Luther Owen Barnes, but here he is in college turning a double play for the Beavers. Go Lute.

http://digitalcollections.library.oregonstate.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/baseball&CISOPTR=1560&REC=7

This picture is interesting because I can't reference it directly, but also because of the pre-sponsorship small-time/big-time nature of Divison I baseball then. The lights are on wooden telephone-like poles, rather than lightning-loving aluminum. The field isn't on the periphery of campus, but close enough that they had to plant a screen of some quick-growing evergreeens to keep the balls from rattling the windows of McGonagle Hall The players have low and consecutive numbers, implying that their unis are recycled, rather than custom-made.


The first baseman has DiMaggio's number but he's built like Mickey Mantle. He even seems to have his knee braced or wrapped.

Jeff Barry
Kevin Bass
Ed Bauta
Billy Beane
Larry Bearnarth
Blaine Beatty
Jim Beauchamp
Rich Becker
Derek Bell
Gus Bell

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Innerestin' because it's so damn tiny I can't even tell if it's our man. But it's all I can find. Anywhere. Blech.

[Centerfield]

Kevin Bass strikes out to end the 1986 NLCS

[Guest Edgy DC]

Interesting!

[stevejrogers]

Tell you what, Barry kind of looks like David Wright in this card

[Guest Edgy DC]

Add a little less belly and a couple more ounces of eyebrow, and you're right.

Next is Ed Bauta.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Ed Bauta was a big, swarmy, lumpy, boxheaded guy, sorta like Alay Soler. All's that comes up on a google search are some bball cards.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Give him a chance.



He's got the strong, yearning, and maybe mixed-race look of an early sixties soul singer. Almost seems to have a little American Indian in him. I certainly wouldn't be surprised if you told me this guy was one of the Miracles.

And, of course, those 1962 cards peeling off the faux wood paneling are always welcome.

Don't worry if we just have cards. Essay those cards to life. Billy Beane.

[stevejrogers]

Couple of Moneyballers in their younger days. Thats J.P. Ricciardi, current Blue Jay GM wearing #18

Trying to track down a pic of Beane and Phillips, either back then or in Phillips' GM days, just to do a good caption of Beane trying to rip Phillips off!

[stevejrogers]

Great example here of baseball card companies usage of older photos for newer cards. This is Larry Bearnarth's 1965 Topps card, yet the photo is from 1963 in the Polo Grounds.

BTW, that was from FindAGrave.com, they also have a huge image of the enterance to the Memorial Park Cemetery in St. Petersburg, FL, Bearnarth's final resting place.

[stevejrogers]

Love cards showing players not playing baseball. Wonder who Blaine is conversing with here. Kiner? Healy?

[stevejrogers]

Speaking of Met ballparks, for someone who pretty much only knows Shea over the last 20 some years, kind of strange seeing nothing but barren sky over the left-center field wall. I swear, my first thoughts, unless the shot includes the window infront of the bullpen or part of the the Left Field stands, is that it's a Spring Training shot!

Pretty decent sideburns there on Beauchamp as well.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Don't let SJR own this thread.

[stevejrogers]

I was going to not post in this thread for another week or so, but just for that Edgy:



Nice image of Rich Becker from a rather unique set that Pinnacle came up with. Cards that were in the format of a standard photograph. I mean you can't even tell it's a baseball card just by looking at the image! Blank backs too, you pretty much have to know who the player in the photos are, they did provide checklists but the cards themselves were highly undescriptive.

No wonder it only lasted one time!

[Guest Edgy DC]

Nothing personal Steve.

[stevejrogers]

Someone please beat me to posting a pic of Derek Bell on the mound, with shades. Or at least find something more inneresting than an outfielder on the mound while wearing sunglasses. =

BTW, hard to believe we actually got this far without the King of Met photos around here, Zvon chiming in with a photo! Or at least something from his card set. I hope he's having a good winter season

[stevejrogers]

Well since no one stepped up with a Derek Bell pic of him on the mound in San Diego with shades (I saw it linked through SI in a UniWatch article but I tried digging for it and came up empty) So here is Derek's mugshot



BTW, inneresting is the site I got it from chronicles bad things that Mets have done through the years, though it appears that the site is run by Met fans. Also rather strange format with a sidebar of Met Lovin' Big Shots right there blocking text rather than on the side.

Gus Bell, next...

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Are those sleeves attached to the vests?

[Guest Edgy DC]

http://mlbplayers.mlb.com/images/2006/06/21/EWOPftkr.jpgThis photo of Heath Bell is notable not only becaue of the presence of a few trademark Bellements, such as the knee-high hose and the ten-gallon butt, but also because of a few flourishes you don't associate with Heath, like the Pedro Martinez-like floppy sleeves and the Tug McGraw-like palm-out follow-through.

Next up is our fourth and last Bell, Jay.

[Centerfield]

Jay Bell scores the winning run in Game 7 of the 2001 World Series ending the MFY dynasty.

[Frayed Knot]

Ironic that Jay Bell was known - particularly in his later years - as the last of the position players who was regularly called on to Sac Bunt, but that he was only in position to score the WS winning run because he had screwed up a sac bunt (bunted into a force play).