Cards for the All Star Break (Plus one interloper)

batmagadanleadoff · July 12, 2015

Edited July 12, 2015 by Guest

MFS62 · July 12, 2015

Ken Oberkfell doesn't ring a bell as having been a Met.

Later

July 12, 2015

Art Howe was a handsome young man.

Edgy MD · July 12, 2015

Oberkfell was the bench coach during Terry's first season with the Mets, before the Mets grew unhappy with the bench's performance, and brought in Bob Geren.

What a weird card this is with Teddy wearing his Cardinals' home uniform at Shea, while the coachie hits fungos in his more appropriate road uniform in the background.

stevejrogers · July 12, 2015

An OOTP user did some fancy Photoshop enhancing as this is the original from Topps

Edited July 12, 2015 by Guest

batmagadanleadoff · July 12, 2015

The interloper's a tough one.

batmagadanleadoff · July 12, 2015

SteveJRogers wrote:
An OOTP user did some fancy Photoshop enhancing as this is the original from Topps

I dunno know what Edgy's seein'. The Martinez card looks fine to my eyes.

stevejrogers · July 12, 2015

The DIY Hickman is funny, someone forgot to change the position listed!

batmagadanleadoff · July 12, 2015

SteveJRogers wrote:
The DIY Hickman is funny, someone forgot to change the position listed!

That's an error card!

stevejrogers · July 12, 2015

I'm guessing either Grieve or Youngblood.

stevejrogers · July 12, 2015

The DIY Alvarado cracks me up. Though to be fair, a lot of those mid 1980s retail box sets (IIRC, Topps and Fleer were the only ones that trotted them out) did have questionable selections in terms of matching up to whatever the set was called. League Leader, Rising Stars, Young Stars, etc.

batmagadanleadoff · July 12, 2015

I'll tell you what does look off on that '75 Martinez card: Shea's Upper Deck. In '75 it was green. I know that those deck colors faded from vibrant to dull over the years due to exposure and neglect, but not to that extent.

batmagadanleadoff · July 12, 2015

SteveJRogers wrote:
An OOTP user did some fancy Photoshop enhancing as this is the original from Topps

So if that Topps Vault photo's the original source, what enhancements were then done? Where's the enhanced photo? Also, do you want your Bob Miller '73 Padres card? If not, I'll give it to somebody else.

stevejrogers · July 13, 2015

batmagadanleadoff wrote:

SteveJRogers wrote:
An OOTP user did some fancy Photoshop enhancing as this is the original from Topps

So if that Topps Vault photo's the original source, what enhancements were then done? Where's the enhanced photo? Also, do you want your Bob Miller '73 Padres card? If not, I'll give it to somebody else.

Its on the forum thread that I grabbed that image from. IDK how that particular one ended up in the picture Edgy grabbed for his reply, as the "original" in the thread does show Martinez in greys.

Sure, shoot me it as a PM, thanks!

batmagadanleadoff · July 13, 2015

SteveJRogers wrote:

SteveJRogers wrote:
An OOTP user did some fancy Photoshop enhancing as this is the original from Topps

So if that Topps Vault photo's the original source, what enhancements were then done? Where's the enhanced photo? Also, do you want your Bob Miller '73 Padres card? If not, I'll give it to somebody else.

Its on the forum thread that I grabbed that image from. IDK how that particular one ended up in the picture Edgy grabbed for his reply, as the "original" in the thread does show Martinez in greys.

Sure, shoot me it as a PM, thanks!

You grabbed "that image", you just wrote. What image? What image is "that image" that you grabbed? The Martinez with the Topps watermark? I assume so. And if so, what does the topps vault watermarked image have to do with this thread? How are you connecting the topps vault image to this thread? And what enhancements (to that watermarked image, I assume, because why else would you post that picture?) were made, as you wrote yesterday? My head is spinning a little bit.

stevejrogers · July 13, 2015

Scroll down to Amazin69's post, has an evolution of exposure techniques he did to make the gray of Martinez' uni appear white.

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/board/ootp-mods-rosters-photos-quick-starts/184046-gambo-t_wil1-photopack-841.html

batmagadanleadoff · July 13, 2015

I see. You posted the wrong post. The post below is what you should've posted.

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July 13, 2015

Rogers Hornsby retired like 25 years before the Mets first pitch?

July 13, 2015

Ah nevermind....

Wiki: Hornsby worked as a coach for the Chicago Cubs from 1958 to 1960 before becoming a scout and third base coach for the New York Mets in 1962.

July 13, 2015

Oh, and bbrdotcom tells me that Arturo Shamsko never played for the Cards.

batmagadanleadoff · July 13, 2015

How could this be? I'm shocked!

July 13, 2015

Learned something new, he managed in Israel...

Wiki: The Modi'in Miracle (Hebrew: ??????? ???????) was an Israeli baseball team from Modi'in in the Israel Baseball League.

Edgy MD · July 13, 2015

Nine years later and I'm still waiting on Kim Shamsky's tell all book on her and Art's shocking marriage and tumultuous divorce.

OE: Referenced in the 2006 WW thread. Follow the link and then search for "Sham." In the same post, Anna Benson foreshadows her less-than-shocking future breakdown and gun-related arrest.

Zvon · July 13, 2015

batmagadanleadoff wrote:
I see. You posted the wrong post. The post below is what you should've posted.

[fimg=955]https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3771/19670666241_27c9e43905_o.jpg[/fimg]

OOTP does great work. Initially I didn't think that was Ted's real autograph, but it is. That's a popular spot for Teddy-shoppin'.

[fimg=400]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-E0vmIL8F0iA/VZW2_fy71KI/AAAAAAAAbzM/Rr_zNk6bby0/s800-Ic42/10847906_10204343184513020_347577189161877829_n.jpg[/fimg][fimg=400]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-2VGqavo-KwU/VZZEq_-u1lI/AAAAAAAAb28/NZI3B5l1EYc/s744-Ic42/72mfc-ChicoEscuela-z15.png[/fimg]

July 13, 2015

So was Shamsky the interloper?

batmagadanleadoff · July 14, 2015

SteveJRogers wrote:
The DIY Alvarado cracks me up. Though to be fair, a lot of those mid 1980s retail box sets (IIRC, Topps and Fleer were the only ones that trotted them out) did have questionable selections in terms of matching up to whatever the set was called. League Leader, Rising Stars, Young Stars, etc.

Alvarado was done with the majors for about 10 years when that league leaders set came out.

July 14, 2015

d'Kong76 wrote:
So was Shamsky the interloper?

batmagadanleadoff · July 14, 2015

d'Kong76 wrote:

d'Kong76 wrote:
So was Shamsky the interloper?

Yeah. Didn't you look it up? You didn't find the other interloper.

July 14, 2015

I thought there was only one this time.

Shamsky's SABR Bio is rather extensive and somewhere in here
the author says he was cut in spring training from the Cards.

http://sabr.org/bioproj/person/68fc8356

I think McCarver is a stretch, but I'm pretty sure he's not it.

stevejrogers · July 14, 2015

batmagadanleadoff wrote:

SteveJRogers wrote:
The DIY Alvarado cracks me up. Though to be fair, a lot of those mid 1980s retail box sets (IIRC, Topps and Fleer were the only ones that trotted them out) did have questionable selections in terms of matching up to whatever the set was called. League Leader, Rising Stars, Young Stars, etc.

Alvarado was done with the majors for about 10 years when that league leaders set came out.

LOL! There is that as well!

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