Butterball & Who Am I's for 2016

[Zvon]

Wow! Awesome shot. We have to find a clearer version of that. I have not surfed Baseball Fever in a long time.

[MFS62]

I wonder how many of the seven catchers on the 1962 Mets were in the same photo. Obviously, they weren't all here at the same time.

Later

[batmagadanleadoff]

This has to be one of the latest Butterball pics posted to these threads:

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[Zvon]

Wow. Excellent pic. Oh, I almost forgot. I ran into this. Taken moments apart.

It was actually in my Mets 60s folder from my old PC. I don't recall finding the pic or where it came from (probly Baseball Fever or Baseball Birthdays). I've been saving Mets photos for 15 years now. This is almost worth colorizing.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Zvon wrote: Wow. Excellent pic. Oh, I almost forgot. I ran into this. Taken moments apart. It was actually in my Mets 60s folder from my old PC. I don't recall finding the pic or where it came from (probly Baseball Fever or Baseball Birthdays). I've been saving Mets photos for 15 years now. This is almost worth colorizing.

Awesome. I wish it was at a higher resolution. Lotsa images floating around from that photo shoot.

[batmagadanleadoff]

You could see the water fountain and the diagonal metal fence bar in the photo you posted. More details!

[Zvon]

It's called the "Walter Fountain". In caps.

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[batmagadanleadoff]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Zvon wrote: Wow. Excellent pic. Oh, I almost forgot. I ran into this. Taken moments apart. It was actually in my Mets 60s folder from my old PC. I don't recall finding the pic or where it came from (probly Baseball Fever or Baseball Birthdays). I've been saving Mets photos for 15 years now. This is almost worth colorizing. Awesome. I wish it was at a higher resolution. Lotsa images floating around from that photo shoot.

This is my favorite of the three photos from that session. It's got Casey. It's got the most Butterball details. And it's the cleanest, least cluttered background.

[Zvon]

I tried to clean that up^ but it always comes out worse.


Walter at his fountain.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Zvon wrote: I tried to clean that up^ but it always comes out worse. Walter at his fountain.

Who's "Walter"?




There's one more 1962 Met who played for the Brooklyn Dodgers, only he's not pictured in the photo above or the other shots from that same shoot that appear in this thread, and for good reason. Who?

[Zvon]

"Who am I?"

[batmagadanleadoff]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: There's one more 1962 Met who played for the Brooklyn Dodgers, only he's not pictured in the photo above or the other shots from that same shoot that appear in this thread, and for good reason. Who?

Joe Pignatano was a '62 Met who also played for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Pignatano is not pictured in any of these bench photos because he did not join the Mets until the Summer of '62 and therefore, was not at the Mets first Spring Training at Butterball, where these pictures were shot. Pignatano retired after the '62 season, famously hitting into a triple play in his last MLB at-bat. So he never appeared at Butterball Field as a Mets player.


Thank you for playing.

[Zvon]

Gah. I should have tried harder.