Hoss Radbourn and Joe Wood Dolls

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Posted By: Daniel Bretta

My mom made a few baseball dolls for me. LMK what you think of them.

Hoss Radbourn


Joe Wood


I had to put them in as thumbnail photos because they are too large and I don't know how to reduce them (I am computer illiterate)

She's currently working on a Jackie Robinson doll for me.

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Posted By: dennis

they look great! does she share an interest in baseball history?

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Posted By: Daniel Bretta

No, she has no interest in baseball. She showed me some of her dolls that she had made, and I told her that they would look great if she made one with a baseball uniform. She made the Radbourn for me for Christmas and the Wood for my birthday. I was going to have her make Fleet Walker, but I couldn't find a good picture, so she asked me if I would like to have Jackie Robinson. I have a long list of players I'd like her to make.

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Posted By: leon

Those are cool....

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Posted By: Wesley

Very cool Dan. I can't tell from the scan, but I am assuming that your Radbourn doll does not have Old Hoss flashing the bird like in Julie's artball.

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Posted By: Wesley

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Posted By: Daniel Bretta

No he's not flipping the bird, but I did show her that picture when she was making the doll for me. She didn't know that "the bird" was that old.

Dan

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Posted By: jackgoodman

May I recommend, for your reading pleasure:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1580085741/thebookofzines/102-0067219-6484115

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Posted By: joe brennan

Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding of how this started is:
The war was between the French and the English. Every time the English captured a French archer, they would cut off his middle finger so he could no longer pull the bow. SO when the English and French faced each other for Battle the French archers would show the English the middle finger to show that they had not captured these archers. Dates allude me but I think this is the gist of it. Out

"I had the right to remain silent. I just didn't have the ability" Ron White

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Posted By: dennis

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a980904.html

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Posted By: joe brennan

Well I was close. Had the armies backwards, but that was from what someone told me long before the internet, so at least I was on the right track.

"I had the right to remain silent. I just didn't have the ability" Ron White

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Posted By: Julie

a little touch of Harry in the night..."

I prefer thE Agincourt story (my introduction to Shakespeare, on record, age 10), but suppose the ancient Roman one more likely to be true.

But..couldn't they BOTH be true? The English archers, familiar with the gesture, made use of it in taunting the French for having missed so many...fingers?
That way, you don't meed all those unlikely puns, either!


Hal has a MUCH nicer one, as Rad's rookie card...

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Posted By: Daniel Bretta

Julie, is Hoss flipping the bird in that OJ picture? It sure looks like he could be.

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Posted By: Julie

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Posted By: Daniel Bretta

That's funny. I had seen the 1886 team photo years ago, but I didn't realize he had also done it in the Old Judge photos. I wonder who the first person to notice it was, and how it was received? I'll bet Ol' Hoss got a good chuckle out of it.