Who Am I? & The Dedication & Re-creation of Butterball Field

[batmagadanleadoff]

Who is this one year fringe Met who ended his career in the Expos organization? Captured above by The Man From Topps, there is no Topps card of this player as either a Met or an Expo.

Quiz Difficulty Rating: Tough.

[Edgy MD]

It's that famous Met flash in the pan, Boris DeSpider.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Joe Moock?

[batmagadanleadoff]

Who is this former Met who never appeared in a game for the A's and was never given a Topps card as a member of the A's either.

Quiz Diffuculty Rating: Easier than Boris DeSpider.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Topps Chewing Gum Co.: Preserving baseball's history through cutting room floor photos.



Who is this player who was a Met teammate of Boris DeSpider for about a month and a half? I suppose this hint can be used to solve the first photo, too.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Who is this former Met who never appeared in a game for the A's and was never given a Topps card as a member of the A's either. Quiz Diffuculty Rating: Easier than Boris DeSpider.

Unhappy Jack

[batmagadanleadoff]

Who is this former Met and current media darling who was an Expo for two weeks and like Boris DeSpider, never appeared on a Topps baseball card as an Expo?

Quiz Difficulty Rating: For this one, you don't even need eyeballs.

[Guest themetfairy]

Who is this former Met and current media darling who was an Expo for two weeks and like Boris DeSpider, never appeared on a Topps baseball card as an Expo? Quiz Difficulty Rating: For this one, you don't even need eyeballs.

Ron Darling, of course.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Who is this former Met and current media darling who was an Expo for two weeks and like Boris DeSpider, never appeared on a Topps baseball card as an Expo? Quiz Difficulty Rating: For this one, you don't even need eyeballs. Ron Darling, of course.

[G-Fafif]

Topps Chewing Gum Co.: Preserving baseball's history through cutting room floor photos. Who is this player who was a Met teammate of Boris DeSpider for about a month and a half? I suppose this hint can be used to solve the first photo, too.

Joe Grzenda?

[G-Fafif]

Though I'm not sure why Joe Grzenda would be posing with a bat...

[Benjamin Grimm]

I think it's one of the Bob Johnsons. (I've recently posted some missing mug shots from the early days to the UMDB.)

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: It's that famous Met flash in the pan, Boris DeSpider.

No, but since you mention flashes in the pan, who is this Met flash in the pan, once considered to have the strongest arm in the organization. A famous photo exists of this pitcher posing with Nolan Ryan, both holding scorched baseballs.



He blew his arm out in the Minors, and never threw a pitch in the Majors.

[G-Fafif]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I think it's one of the Bob Johnsons. (I've recently posted some missing mug shots from the early days to the UMDB.)

Gotta be. That smile looked too familiar to have totally escaped my childhood Topps gaze.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I think it's one of the Bob Johnsons. (I've recently posted some missing mug shots from the early days to the UMDB.)

Winner! Winner! It's the hitting Bob Johnson, who put up quite the numbers in his brief Met stint.

[G-Fafif]

Who is this one year fringe Met who ended his career in the Expos organization? Captured above by The Man From Topps, there is no Topps card of this player as either a Met or an Expo. Quiz Difficulty Rating: Tough.

Jack Lamabe. And he is tough.

[batmagadanleadoff]

G-Fafif wrote: Though I'm not sure why Joe Grzenda would be posing with a bat...

Why not? Seaver did it for The Man From Topps in 1972. Of course, Joe Grzenda wasn't no Tom Seaver.


This coulda been Seaver's '73 card.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Who is this one year fringe Met who ended his career in the Expos organization? Captured above by The Man From Topps, there is no Topps card of this player as either a Met or an Expo. Quiz Difficulty Rating: Tough. Jack Lamabe. And he is tough.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Who is this former Met who never appeared in a game for the A's and was never given a Topps card as a member of the A's either. Quiz Diffuculty Rating: Easier than Boris DeSpider.

It's hint time. He was a prominent Met in his time, generally well-liked, even to this day.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Who is this former Met who never appeared in a game for the A's and was never given a Topps card as a member of the A's either. Quiz Diffuculty Rating: Easier than Boris DeSpider. It's hint time. He was a prominent Met in his time, generally well-liked, even to this day.

He was a pitcher, but not a belly itcher, as far as I know.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Like his Mets teammate Tom Seaver, he also posed with a bat for The Man From Topps.

[Guest themetfairy]

Skip Lockwood?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

The skipper

[Edgy MD]

Probably still thought of himself as a bit of hitter in his Pilots days.

[G-Fafif]

He was one of my early guesses but I remembered a rounder as well as bespectacled Lockwood and thought, "nah..."

[batmagadanleadoff]

themetfairy wrote: Skip Lockwood?

Skip looks like a different person in every picture.

[Edgy MD]

G-Fafif wrote: He was one of my early guesses but I remembered a rounder as well as bespectacled Lockwood and thought, "nah..."

Yeah, I also remember his hair to be straight and stringy and his eyes to be a bit sickly.

[Zvon]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: never appeared on a Topps baseball card as an Expo?

Hmm..

batmagadanleadoff wrote: This coulda been Seaver's '73 card.

Hmmm...


Kool thread.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Hey, big guy ... wanna be a pro's pro? My foxhole buddy?

[batmagadanleadoff]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Edgy MD wrote: It's that famous Met flash in the pan, Boris DeSpider. No, but since you mention flashes in the pan, who is this Met flash in the pan, once considered to have the strongest arm in the organization. A famous photo exists of this pitcher posing with Nolan Ryan, both holding scorched baseballs. He blew his arm out in the Minors, and never threw a pitch in the Majors.

Can't figure out the flamethrowing flame-out? Once injured, the Mets left him unprotected for the upcoming 1969 expansion draft, where he was taken by the Montreal Expos, and reacquired by the Mets organization two years later. He ended his pro baseball career as a member of the Tidewater Tides.