Picture Day, 1975

[Guest Edgy DC]

Good footage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtyWZgJTu1w

An early look at Stoins wearing #16. (I looked for Mazzilli in #12, but he debuted the next year, and instead I got a disturbing Jack Heidieman looking like a perp on Baretta.) Staub is also seen in 10, which I hadn't thought he wore until his second tenure. Kingman looks young and beautiful, with only a hint of the alienation that would come to define him. Garrett is fresh from dropping Lori Beth off at Arnold's.

Roy McMillan has already replaced Yogi, apparently, but his smile says there's more ahead than interim status for him. Sucker.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Great footage!

So, was photo day just guys slowly lapping the field?

I attended a Tigers version in 2003. Little different. Fans were allowed on the field while the players stayed on the infield -- blocked off -- though some wandered out to put arms around fans for snapshots.

Where I got in trouble was ... we were taking full advantage of being on the field, roaming around the outfield for photos of our own, making faux spectacular catches. (Remember, we are mentally about six years old.) So I was going all Swoboda, laying there all stretched out. Some Yankee fan didn't see this, and was walking backward to get his photo and fell right over me. He was pissed, more so because the guys in my group were hysterical.

That was the game were Clemens was going for No. 30, left with the lead only to have Freaking Jeter and I think Soriano screw it up and allow the Tigers to tie the game, which went on for something like 17 innings.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I was at photo day once, 1976. Mickey Lolich came out on his motorcycle.

[ashie62]

Didn't the Mets players play against their kids?

[Guest Edgy DC]

That would be family day.

[ashie62]

Edgy DC wrote: That would be family day.

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