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ashling

(25,771 posts) Wed Oct 23, 2013, 10:09 PM Oct 2013

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Old baseball pics

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Old baseball pics (Original Post) ashling Oct 2013 OP

Pics 3 and 4. Hugh packages, lots of bat and balls. Pic 5, OTOH, sorry, throws like my sister. NYC_SKP Oct 2013 #1

Old baseball pic kentauros Oct 2013 #2

Say Hey, my favorite old baseball photo isn't near as old as yours Brother Buzz Oct 2013 #3

Sixth down -- first professional BB team: the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings Bertha Venation Oct 2013 #4

Ordinary film was too slow to take action shots then. Some "action" poses were better than others... hunter Oct 2013 #5

I think he is supposed to be ashling Oct 2013 #6

It must have been tough to run in those boots Art_from_Ark Oct 2013 #7

NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)

1. Pics 3 and 4. Hugh packages, lots of bat and balls. Pic 5, OTOH, sorry, throws like my sister.

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Wed Oct 23, 2013, 10:24 PM

Oct 2013

kentauros

(29,414 posts)

2. Old baseball pic

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Wed Oct 23, 2013, 10:36 PM

Oct 2013

Brother Buzz

(36,444 posts)

3. Say Hey, my favorite old baseball photo isn't near as old as yours

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Wed Oct 23, 2013, 10:45 PM

Oct 2013

Bertha Venation

(21,484 posts)

4. Sixth down -- first professional BB team: the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Thu Oct 24, 2013, 11:20 AM

Oct 2013

Read a book called If I Never Get Back. Very good, very entertaining.

hunter

(38,317 posts)

5. Ordinary film was too slow to take action shots then. Some "action" poses were better than others...

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Thu Oct 24, 2013, 12:23 PM

Oct 2013

I like the one of the guy "catching" the ball with his bare hands. The ball is probably tied to his fingers.

The photographer and player of this picture really didn't have a clue about posing for an "action" shot:

ashling

(25,771 posts)

6. I think he is supposed to be

Reply to hunter (Reply #5)

Thu Oct 24, 2013, 07:44 PM

Oct 2013

getting ready to throw it - notice the glove on his other hand.

Art_from_Ark

(27,247 posts)

7. It must have been tough to run in those boots

Reply to ashling (Reply #6)

Fri Oct 25, 2013, 02:12 AM

Oct 2013

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