Snapshots...Lets See Them!

[gonefishin]

Chief Bender in civilian clothes but ready to roll.

[AstroJake09]

Here’s a photo from my Dad’s photo album of his youth. In July of 1997 he made a short trip down to San Diego from his native Seattle to visit a good friend of his who was stationed there in the Navy. While he was there he took in at least one Mariners vs Padres game.

The photo didn’t have a date but I was able to start narrowing it down due to the sleeve patches on the Padres jerseys as being 1997 as part of the league-wide celebration in honor of the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier. Then I pulled up starting lineups from each game that season in which the Mariners had traveled to San Diego. The only result was a short, two game series over July 2-3. So, I narrowed it down to two possibilities. I noticed that the second base umpire in the photo looked a lot like Joe West so I referred to the box score, sure enough he was listed as being the second base umpire for the first game of the series on July 2nd. With Griffey as the only Mariner in the shot, I looked at the defensive lineup for San Diego and saw that the first baseman that night, Archi Cianfrocco, was right handed as was the defender in the photo. The next night would find left hander, Wally Joyner, manning first. So after a bit of research I was able to narrow down the photo to a summer night on July 2, in the midst of Junior’s MVP campaign.

Also notable was that Dad had another photo of Randy Johnson staring right at him in the outfield during warmups. Over the course of the night Dad would see five future Hall of Famers and a slew of legends and all-stars play in the game.

[Kaneen]

Here are some snapshots taken of the Big Red Machine at the pinnacle of their glory. These were taken on photo day at Reds Spring Training in 1977. Apparently, there was an option to have film developed back then with a postcard back by a company called "POST-A-PHOTO," as these all have a postcard printed back. I obtained the autographs on the signed ones in person.

Postcard Printed Back


Bill Plummer


Cesar Geronimo (Signed)


Cesar Geronimo (Signed)


Dan Driessen (Signed)


Dan Driessen (Signed)


Dave Concepcion (Signed)


Dave Concepcion (Signed)


Dave Concepcion

[Kaneen]

Doug Flynn (Signed)


Doug Flynn (Signed)


George Foster


George Scherger


Joe Morgan


Johnny Bench


Johnny Bench


Johnny Bench

[Kaneen]

Ken Griffey


Mike Lum


Mike Lum


Pete Rose & Sparky Anderson


Pete Rose & Sparky Anderson


Pete Rose


Sparky Anderson


Ted Kluszewski

[Exhibitman]

Those are great; they look like picture day at Little League! You just needed them kneeling with the bat.



Polaroid also made PC mounts for its early photos (they were so thin that they had to be mounted on something):




Pastrano was champ from 1963-1965, so the photos are no earlier than 1963 and probably no later than 1965.