The most inneresting photos you can find

[Benjamin Grimm]

Can anyone find a photo of ROBERTO ALOMAR?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Roger Cedeño can.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Idiotic Coincidence Alert: Have two players whose names follow one another alphabetically on the All-time roster ever been traded for one another, other than Almonte and Alomar?

[Guest Edgy DC]

One Adam-12, One Adam-12 we have reports of a male caucasian attemting to kill a thread on the corner of Crane and Poole. Suspect is approximately 40, and consered to be a Dickshot.

Actually, it's a good question. Being that there's four guys between Mac Scarce and Dave Scneck --- the best I could come up with --- I doubt it.

[Benjamin Grimm]

If not for that pesky Gerald Williams, the Mets could have created alphabetical magic by trading Dave Williams for Dontrelle Willis.

As for Roberto Alomar, how can you get more interesting than spitting at an umpire?



One thing that does make this picture more interesting is the familiar face between Alomar and Hirshbeck.



Next up, Roberto's dad, SANDY ALOMAR.

[seawolf17]

Can we sign Gerald again, then trade him and Davie for Dontrelle? I'd do that.

The Alomars:



Gotta be a great feeling to have not one, but two kids in the major leagues... and both be all-stars.

Jesus Alou, anyone?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Here's the fourth Alou brother, Bob:

[Guest Edgy DC]

Jesus seemed to cary an extra 20 through most of his career. In a lot of his photos, he also looks kind of stoned. This one is no exception. Note also his membership in the Flat Brim Club.



I guess we'll pass over his nyet-yet-a-Met nephew Moises and go to 1964 Met George Altman.

[Benjamin Grimm]

This is about as interesting as it gets for George Altman:



Most pictures I was able to find were baseball card head shots of him as a Cub, like this one.

Searching for George Altman also yielded this image, which looks like a female Silver Surfer. If that was really the George Altman who played for the Mets, it would be very interesting:





Time to find a picture of LUIS ALVARADO

[Guest Edgy DC]

I wonder if George did any boxing. He looks like a man who could take a punch.

[HahnSolo]

Lots of Luis Alvarados on a google image search, but I think we're looking for this guy. Is that the old Yankee Stadium he's standing in?


Craig Anderson is on deck.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Y'all are finding me some phine photos, but I want the whys and wherefores commentary. Else, it's just Google.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

I'm going all Uni Watch on this thread for a moment. What's that thin white band on Craig's head? It doesn't look like the band of the cap. Seems more like one of those thin elastic-y headbands used in girls athletics.

JASON ANDERSON, come on down!

[Guest Edgy DC]

I'm thinking that we're looking at one of those early hybrid helmet/hats --- cloth stretched over plastic to resemble a hat --- though I don't know if the Mets ever wore them.

[Guest Edgy DC]

http://www.freewebs.com/egautographs/JASONANDERSON.jpgJason Anderson always looked like Doogie Howser's goofball friend Vinnie to me. A man-child. Here he comes to his stop and shows you the awesome pitch tipping style that makes him a perpetual fringer. "Daddy, he's throwing a four-seam fastball!"

One more perpetual item is the Yankee mourning band on their sleeve. When you have a century of history, and wear it on your sleeve as part of your marketing, it's a fact of life that it ends up on your sleeve literally. In fact, being that their home pinstripes have no trim at the sleeve ends, I thought the black band should have become a permanent part of the uniform, being that it was there almost every year and looked like it belonged, not clashing with the almost-black pinstrips.

But here's reason 43 why the solid spring training jerseys stink. The band would get lost in the deepest of dark blue Yankee tops, so they make it a white band, in order to contrast. Who mourns with a white armband?

Jason "Vinnie" Anderson, that's who.

[Benjamin Grimm]

We're halfway through our Andersons. MARLON is next.

Marlon Anderson (2005)
Rick Anderson (1986)
Bob Apodaca (1973 - 1977)
Kevin Appier (2001)
Jerry Arrigo (1966)
Richie Ashburn (1962)
Tucker Ashford (1983)
Bob Aspromonte (1971)
Pedro Astacio (2002, 2003)
Benny Ayala (1974, 1976)
Manny Aybar (2005)

[Theoldmole]

]Who mourns with a white armband?

Buddhists, Hindus, and Queens of France.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Jason Anderson, Queen of France.

Good point. Marlon time.

[DocTee]

http://www.kcmets.com/Pictures/jay_satan.jpgDo we have a photo of Jason Anderson??

[Benjamin Grimm]

Edgy posted one of him dressed as the Queen of France, but I wasn't able to see it. I guess you couldn't either.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Satan is everywhere
Satan is everything
Satan is everybody
Satan is still the king
Man, oh man, what I want you to see
Is there's a little bit of Satan in you and me

[Benjamin Grimm]

This image of Marlon Anderson is interesting because he's shaking hands with a baseball legend, Nationals manager Frank Robinson right after F. Robby won his 1000th game as a manager.

Frank doesn't seem too focused on who's hand he's shaking. How must it feel to congratulate somebody who's so busy being congratulated by others that he barely notices you?

[Zvon]

="Yancy Street Gang"] ="HahnSolo"]I have that Agee card, and I think it is one of those Topps specials, in which they try to fake us into believing he's in an Astro uniform when he's really not. The red on the hats and socks were colored in. Yes, folks, I believe that came from his time as a Met. That could be Buddy at short, right? It makes sense, too, b/c that card is from the 1973 set, and Agee played all of 1972 as a Met I believe. That could be. I have that card somewhere too. If the card has a high number on the back, then it could have been taken during the 1973 season. But you're right, it's probably a shot of him as a Met with the caps and socks painted. I wasn't aware that Topps did that with action shots. We've certainly seen many examples of head shots with painted caps, and sometimes rather poorly done.

Yea, thats one a those Topps painted cards, but they didnt just paint a hat on him, they went for the whole uniform.
And yea, thats Buddy or Boswell and Rusty behind him.

[Guest Edgy DC]

The body says Harrelson all over.

That's an inneresting picture!

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

So who's the white center fielder? Don Hahn?

[Guest iramets]

Johnny Dickshot wrote: So who's the white center fielder? Don Hahn?

Zvon sez it ain't no centerfielder, it's Rusty, and I'll buy that for a dollar.

Of course, if they're painting blue caps red, there's no reason that couldn't be John Milner.

It's early in an afternoon game, to judge by the shadows, btw.

[Guest cooby]

Unless, of course, the shadows are painted on

[stevejrogers]

Why is this man smiling? 20 years after being a forever forgotten player in the "David Cone for Ed Hearn" deal he gets to be the pitching coach for a 2 time Cy Young winner and another rising star as well as a top notch closer.

Your Minnesota Twins Pitching Coach since 2003, Rick Anderson!

[Benjamin Grimm]

Here's a more interesting photo of Rick Anderson. Note the wood paneling on the baseball card and the bold blue Sharpie signature.



He looks like he's about to speak. I can imagine that just outside our view, Keith Hernandez is approaching the mound.



And that brings us to BOB APODACA. Ideally I would have liked to have found a photo of him shaking hands with Jerry Grote, since he once reportedly said that shaking hands with Grote is better than sex. But I suppose that I have "safe search" on so if such a picture exists it was probably pre-empted by Google's filtering software.

So how about this one, of Bob in action as the Rockies' pitching coach?



Combine that face with Jose Lima's hairdo and I think you get Harpo Marx.

I kinda prefer Bob's old school look though, when his hair swept away from his face like Farrah Fawcett's did:




It's a slow day today, people. Would somebody care to track down an interesting photo of KEVIN APPIER?

[Guest Edgy DC]

I thout I had posted Apodaca a day or so ago.

Look at that... a huge chaw and probably the loosest hat band size the Mets had going, in order to contain that Himalayan mountain of hair.