Bizarre Aparicio Photo...?

[andypcl]

I had to drop this on Net54 because this Aparicio photo is really different. I found it today in a pile of papers at an antique store. It's 11x14 and has a Mark Kauffman stamp. Can anybody give me some background on it? Wierd plant theme...

[Nashvol]

Was his wife's name Fern? Sorry, I couldn't resist...

...don't have a clue, but is he without his sanitary hose?

[GrayGhost]

What's up with the Random Russian River Brewery bottle? Booze and sports collecting. a WIN

[Nashvol]

Originally Posted by GrayGhost

What's up with the Random Russian River Brewery bottle? Booze and sports collecting. a WIN

Sometimes in that order, sometimes not...

[andypcl]

Yeah, I better not show the rest of the garage...
-A

[RCMcKenzie]

Would you describe this photo as type one or first generation?

[andypcl]

I honestly wouldn't know the difference, here's a little better pic...
Thanks,
-Andy

[springpin]

I like the fact the photographer held the camera about knee-level, creating the appearance Aparicio was very tall as he towers above the flora. It was probably a potted plant.

[bobw]

I believe that photo was in Sports Illustrated with other players in the same type pose in the early 1970s . I'll have to look it up

[andypcl]

Thanks Bob,
-Andy

[HRBAKER]

I always liked that vintage of ChiSox uniform.

[bobw]

If you Google "Mark Kauffman" you can see has taken some of the most famous SI photos ever'


Took a while but I found it..I love the Maury Wills

New Tintype Heroes

In the old days of baseball, Ossee Schreckengost stuffed his catcher's mitt with feathers to muffle the legendary fast ball of Rube Waddell, and that great ballhawk of more than a century ago, John Chapman, won the sobriquet, 'Death to Flying Things.' But it remained for Photographer Mark Kauffman to introduce a stuffed pheasant into the game. Recently he stood one up next to Baltimore's Robinsons, Frank and Brooks, and snapped the kind of picture that has not been seen since players wore turtlenecks and rode to the park in trolley cars. Delighted with the effect, Kauffman surrounded some other of today's heroes with rich and assorted relics of our mauve past. The players responded with enough ham to produce on the following pages the handsome album of new tintypes.

[andypcl]

Hey Bob,
Thanks so much for spending the time to come up with those. I figured there must be some kind of story with it as it's a neat but very odd kind of pic.
-Andy

[Runscott]

The sad aftermath of this photo was that Aparicio spit his tobacco juice in the spittoon/vase and the plant died.

[thecatspajamas]

Very cool discovery! And neat to see the photo that Kaufmann took both pre- and post-"tintyping"