Cool baseball related photos

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"The Home Run Twins" ~ Lou Gehrig & Babe Ruth pose for the cover of the Mid-Week Pictorial at New York #Yankees spring training camp in Florida! (March 14, 1931)

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In his first 11 years in the majors, Mickey Cochrane never caught fewer than 110 games in the then 154-game season. He perfected the one-hand catching style to help protect the fingers on his throwing hand from getting overly banged up. Cochrane assisted two pitchers to establish 16-game winning streaks, still the American League record, when Lefty Grove accomplished the feat with the A’s in 1931 and Schoolboy Rowe with the Tigers in 1934.
Cochrane was selected as American League MVP twice, in 1928 and 1934, primarily on his leadership abilities rather than his statistical accomplishments. On the field, Cochrane had a certain inspiration that infected other players to do their best. Cochrane never played on a team that finished worse than third place.

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Red Sox greats Sam “Mayday” Malone, Yaz, and Coach Ernie Pantusso

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"The interesting thing, among the many many many endlessly interesting things about Babe Ruth — certainly the most stunning figure in baseball history — is that he was nearly as great a pitcher as he was a hitter.
In his coming-up as a raw boy from Baltimore he mowed down his opponents in the American League;
he was the best left-handed pitcher in the 1910s, without question, in the American League, and it was only because of the prodigal strength that resided in his bat that he moved off the mound.
When people get into discussions about who's the greatest ballplayer in history and they say, Well there was Ruth, but there was also DiMaggio and Cobb and Mays and Aaron and the other claimants. To me it seems like an utterly wasted discussion.
Let us say that Ruth was not as good a defensive player as Willie Mays...but he was also one of the greatest pitchers ever!
It is as if imagining that Beethoven and Cézanne were one person producing the same work.
It just can't be compared to anything else."
~ Daniel Okrent (American writer and editor)

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My 1912 San Francisco Chronicle featuring cartoons on the great shortstop Honus Wagner. While Wagner would still play an additional 5 seasons after 1912, this would become one of his last “productive” seasons as a major star batting .324 with 101 RBI and 181 hits (35 2B, 20 3B, 7 HR). While he would bat .300 in 1913, his other numbers would take a drastic decline from 1912. He would see a slight resurgence in 1915, but after 1913 would never bat at .300 again. Although, let’s not forget that his career began in 1897 and in 1912 he was age 38! The cartoons show just how dominant his career had been to that point, proving himself as one of the greatest to ever play the game!

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Originally Posted by edtiques

"The interesting thing, among the many many many endlessly interesting things about Babe Ruth — certainly the most stunning figure in baseball history — is that he was nearly as great a pitcher as he was a hitter.
In his coming-up as a raw boy from Baltimore he mowed down his opponents in the American League;
he was the best left-handed pitcher in the 1910s, without question, in the American League, and it was only because of the prodigal strength that resided in his bat that he moved off the mound.
When people get into discussions about who's the greatest ballplayer in history and they say, Well there was Ruth, but there was also DiMaggio and Cobb and Mays and Aaron and the other claimants. To me it seems like an utterly wasted discussion.
Let us say that Ruth was not as good a defensive player as Willie Mays...but he was also one of the greatest pitchers ever!
It is as if imagining that Beethoven and Cézanne were one person producing the same work.
It just can't be compared to anything else."
~ Daniel Okrent (American writer and editor)

That photo on the right is Ruth pitching, and winning, the last game of the season of 1930.

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He did it again in 1933, and won that game as well.

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And the Chicks won the 2nd game, against the World Series winners. MLB teams used to barnstorm their way to opening day when spring training broke. There were numerous exhibition games in cities and towns, most of them along the route to opening day.