They Might've Been Giants

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Post above edited to now include one hack announcer.

Hall of Famers: (4) Carter, Mays, Spahn, Snider
Possible Future HOF'ers: (2) Beltran, Kent
MVP's: (4) Foster, Kent, Mays, Mitchell,
Runner-UP MVP's: (5) Carter, Foster, Mays, Snider, Strawberry
Cy Young Award Winners: (2) Hershiser, Spahn
ROY's: (3) Beltran, Mays, Strawberry
Hack Announcers: (1)

Lotsa lifetime HR's.

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Last Two Opponents Streak

[Edgy MD]

Love the workshirt collar, Sadecki. It's like he's pitching during a weekend furlough from Oshkosh Correctional.

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Untouchable Ordinals:

NY NY 3 4 11 20 24 27 30 36 =#0000FF]42 44

Despite the Giants place in Mets heritage 24 (unofficially) and 42 are the only retired numbers they share with the Mets.

OE: Well, they also share the "NY." But the Mets haven't retired that yet.

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Two favs from TMBG

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Who Am I? A special They Might've Been Giants edition quiz. This Met/Giant is not pictured in the original post to this thread.

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Johnny Stephenson?

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Another shot of the Toppless Giant pictured above.

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Who am I? This Giant is not pictured in the original post to this thread because he never played for the Mets. Never appeared in a Mets game. Was never on the Mets 25 man roster. But he did get his own Topps Baseball card in a Mets uniform. Don't tell Davey Schneck.

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Zvon wrote: Johnny Stephenson?

Boy, these quizzes don't stay unsolved for more than a few minutes.

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batmagadanleadoff wrote: Zvon wrote: Johnny Stephenson? Boy, these quizzes don't stay unsolved for more than a few minutes.

Lucky. I was just working with the '66 cards.

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Zvon wrote: Zvon wrote: Johnny Stephenson? Boy, these quizzes don't stay unsolved for more than a few minutes. Lucky. I was just working with the '66 cards.

Ha! Great b&w of Clendenon up above. That's the widest angle we've seen of that practice field. Now we know that there's no outfield beyond the first infield -- just another infield.

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batmagadanleadoff wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: Johnny Stephenson? Boy, these quizzes don't stay unsolved for more than a few minutes. Lucky. I was just working with the '66 cards. Ha! Great b&w of Clendenon up above. That's the widest angle we've seen of that practice field. Now we know that there's no outfield beyond the first infield -- just another infield.

I ran into two in the same slide show. Not positive about this one tho.

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Zvon wrote: Zvon wrote: Zvon wrote: Johnny Stephenson? Boy, these quizzes don't stay unsolved for more than a few minutes. Lucky. I was just working with the '66 cards. Ha! Great b&w of Clendenon up above. That's the widest angle we've seen of that practice field. Now we know that there's no outfield beyond the first infield -- just another infield. I ran into two in the same slide show. Not positive about this one tho.

It's hard to tell but I wouldn't rule it out. What about the tree on the extreme left side of the photo -- to the right of Torre's wife? How does that tree compare with the trees in the other shots?

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That one tree had plenty of time to grow bigger. The one that we can see, there to the left, might be more telling. And if its possible that they trim those every few years, that could be the tree on Butterballs.

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Sherman "Roadblock" Jones.

Ahhh, yes.

Later

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Stumped here. Was Jones a guess?

Zvon wrote: That one tree had plenty of time to grow bigger. The one that we can see, there to the left, might be more telling. And if its possible that they trim those every few years, that could be the tree on Butterballs.

In the Clendenon photo you can see that these are interlocking fields (could be 3,4), or 2 adjacent.

How many fields did they have down there? The corner of each, looking in, might be very similar. The trees are a good indicator but its also possible similar trees were planted all around those parks. Trees can be trimmed and all a that. The light pole is a major indicator. I know you said you see the light pole in Butterballs pic. Looking at the B&W now don't see it. But that one fence pole is thicker for some reason. lol, i like how I'm gettin all X-Files investigative. (In any case if the jutting out fence thing isn't there maybe they were all put in later.)

When its a color photo that body of water out there helps to try and nail down the field. But there could be one or two additional fields that have the same view for all I know.

This makes the the cut cuzza the lightpole (which also could have been built in similar patterns around the parks down there when you think about it).


What do you think the fence addition that juts out is for? A Safe area/dugout kind place for games? A batting cage? And did other fields have that? I bet the fields still are standing down there. I might have to take me a trip to Florida.

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Think it may be time to update the subtitle on the masthead to include discussion of a well used spot for photo taking on either the Huggins-Stengel Field or Namoli Fild on the Al Lang Stadium complex ini St. Petersburg, Florida!

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What do you think the fence addition that juts out is for? A Safe area/dugout kind place for games? A batting cage? And did other fields have that? I bet the fields still are standing down there. I might have to take me a trip to Florida.

Maybe we raise some funds to subsidize your trip. Sell candy bars or something, or even try for a government grant. And then we could publish your findings in a pamphlet, under the CPF imprint. Searching for the Sadecki Spot: The Truth behind the Mystery.

Seriously, this is all strangely fascinating.

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Btw, do you know who created this card?

I'd like to use that for my '65 Spahn card post.

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Btw, do you know who created this card? I'd like to use that for my '65 Spahn card post.

http://cardsthatneverwere.blogspot.com/search?q=spahn

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batmagadanleadoff wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: Johnny Stephenson? Boy, these quizzes don't stay unsolved for more than a few minutes. Lucky. I was just working with the '66 cards. Ha! Great b&w of Clendenon up above. That's the widest angle we've seen of that practice field. Now we know that there's no outfield beyond the first infield -- just another infield. I ran into two in the same slide show. Not positive about this one tho. It's hard to tell but I wouldn't rule it out. What about the tree on the extreme left side of the photo -- to the right of Torre's wife? How does that tree compare with the trees in the other shots?

That's definitely the Sadecki Spot coming out of Dani Torre's right hip. There's no doubt. If you enlarge the photo, you can easily see the tarp covering the front opening to the frame structure.



The Torres on the beach in St. Petersburg, Florida.

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batmagadanleadoff wrote: Who am I? This Giant is not pictured in the original post to this thread because he never played for the Mets. Never appeared in a Mets game. Was never on the Mets 25 man roster. But he did get his own Topps Baseball card in a Mets uniform. Don't tell Davey Schneck.

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batmagadanleadoff wrote:

Noooo, thats Hamilton Burger from Perry Mason.

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batmagadanleadoff wrote: That's definitely the Sadecki Spot coming out of Dani Torre's right hip. There's no doubt. If you enlarge the photo, you can easily see the tarp covering the front opening to the frame structure.

So it only took the Mets like 15 years before they thought, hey, maybe we should put some stands here. Nah, thats far back by the "Clendenon Corner". Maybe they always were there.

We need an aerial view. Yo, maybe we could find this spot through Google map!

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Zvon wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: That's definitely the Sadecki Spot coming out of Dani Torre's right hip. There's no doubt. If you enlarge the photo, you can easily see the tarp covering the front opening to the frame structure. So it only took the Mets like 15 years before they thought, hey, maybe we should put some stands here. Nah, thats far back by the "Clendenon Corner". Maybe they always were there. We need an aerial view. Yo, maybe we could find this spot through Google map!

The photos aren't necessarily inconsistent. You just can't see the stands from the Clendenon angle. But the stands should be there -- just out of frame.

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batmagadanleadoff wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: That's definitely the Sadecki Spot coming out of Dani Torre's right hip. There's no doubt. If you enlarge the photo, you can easily see the tarp covering the front opening to the frame structure. So it only took the Mets like 15 years before they thought, hey, maybe we should put some stands here. Nah, thats far back by the "Clendenon Corner". Maybe they always were there. We need an aerial view. Yo, maybe we could find this spot through Google map! The photos aren't necessarily inconsistent. You just can't see the stands from the Clendenon angle. But the stands should be there -- just out of frame.

Wait a minute! I didn't mean that Torre's lying on the ground at the Sadecki Spot. I meant that you can see the Sadecki Spot in the background to the Torre photo.