Two Pictures, One Post
Johnny Antonelli died yesterday. What struck me most was that his height and weight listed is almost exactly Ramos’ height and weight.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/antonjo02.shtml
PK sent me this pic with Frank Lary’s card underneath for some reason. Hidden message? Stop Big Flavor, just post the picture….
And earlier in the day San Diggity Dawg messaged me on Twitter. I was worried. Was something wrong? Nobody messages me on twitter. But it was nothing. Just this sweet bastard of a picture.
You should all be able to guess who’s photo bombing the pic, right?
Frank Lary was born and died in Northport Alabama. I bet Frank was one racist fuck.
Notorious Yankee-killer…
he was one of 3 notable people who came from Northport, Bammy. You will not be able to guess the other two
Wow, Lary was 27-10 against the Yanks from 1955 to 1961.
looks like either Moffitt or Montefusco.
Good guesses, but I don’t think so. I think there are 3 guys in the background who can be indentified and none of them are a member of SFPD.
The young Kingman could run and steal bags. Adventure at 3b though, especially if you were sitting on 1b side lower boxes.
I got to where I hated Stoneham for constantly giving away the Giants future.
Steve Ontiveros?
Ontiveros is the guy Diggity guessed, too.
Speaking of Stoneham and Antonelli
https://vault.si.com/vault/1957/05/20/alas-poor-giants
Looks like a young Murph in the background. Mike Sadek without a stash?
“ox” on the uni of the guy sitting down has to be Maddox right? Dude in white shirt is obviously Murph. Can’t see enough of the other black guy other than his fro. Diggity told me who the photo bomber was so I’m not guessing that guy.
Black guy w/o shirt on, Bonds?
1 for sure Gary Maddox, great player!
Yeah I’ll go Bobby Bonds like Flavor’s guess?
My other choice would be Gary Mathews?
Agree on Ontiveros, Maddox, and Murph.
I do think the other guy could be Sarge himself, Gary Mathews—nice call Kat.
Loo–is that the same jersey you have? Did they really put “San Francisco” on the home uni?
I got the grey Murcer road jersey that says SAN FRANCISCO in front.
The white one in the picture that says “SAN FRANCISCO” is baffling to me…
I’m confused…
https://www.deanscards.com/i/3189926/1976-SSPC-1976-SSPC-San-Francisco-Giants-Team-Set-Prebuilt-
The guy with his head down walking into dugout—-Mike Caldwell maybe???
Is that The clubhouse guy Mike Murphy in the white shirt?
Oh I didn’t see Bozo’s guess up there on Murph first..
I don’t think we had too many black guys on the team so Bonds or Gary Matthews is probably the other guy but I remember Matthews having way more of a fro, right?
Other Northport, Bammy notables: Hannah Brown, former Bammy beauty pageant winner and LeRon McClain former NFL player.
Phew, glad I got the Northport stuff out of the way early, now I can go tackle the day.
We didn’t need to many black guys when we had the best outfielders all time in Giants history with Matthews,Maddox&Bonds! I had the pleasure of seeing all 3 at the Stick and they could flat out track down any ball,and all with cannons for arms..
I would still to this day put those guys up against any other teams best outfield alltime..
kat i still think Cepeda, Alou, and Mays was just as good if not better. The three you mentioned were allstars and we just gave em away
trying to nail down year of the pic. ’73 and ’74, would have been Kingman’s last years as Giant and would correspond with awesome OF Kat mentioned. Ontiveros first showed up ’73 played more regularly ’74.. Caldwell didn’t come to SF til ’74.
I’d say the other black guy is Sarge, he had little wider rounder head than Bonds though my recog of guys from that era not good.
Maddox was traded ’75, for 1b willie the phillie who hit .306 in before being traded a year later to Braves for Darrell Evans,
Ontiveros was traded away in Murcer deal to Cubs for Madlock. ’74 was debut of Ed Halicki, signed out of Monmouth College in Jersey ’72. something else about ’74, the year Bryant fell apart after awesome ’73 winning 24 games; if you look at B/R they list park factors, and by the Stick of all places favored batting with numbers like 105/109. The Stick, a hitters yard? Not at those mid week night games, place was Arctic.
Madlock in SF had almost exact same OPS (.796 vs. 786) that he did with Pirates but that ’79 season he helped spark them to title while time in SF he didn’t seem to like it at all, at least compared to Chicago.
Yeah that’s Sarge.
73&74 were the only 2 years that stud outfield played together.Amazing how great of outfielders they could draft then but years of frustration ever since except Chili..
And even more amazing they let them all start they’re careers at an early age as everyday players at 22or23 years old.They sure haven’t done that ever since,maybe Ramos might do that since he’s only 20..
Posey 2-run HR, Craw 2-2 & 3 runs today.
thx Mac. Just to complete trifecta Kapler talking up Belt again, for whom he gave baserunning award to.
“Brandon has been really driven since the beginning of spring. He’s demonstrated that he’s really devoted to having a great season for us this year, and that starts with playing an all around game.”
said in his best used car salesman’s voice..”sure is a beauty, ain’t she?”
I still find it hard to believe that there were 2 guys in MLB named Steve Ontiveros and they weren’t related…
Ramos has a mild oblique strain, and will be out for a while. Well, that’s a bummer.
Classic PED/HGH injury…
Stanford news: playing tough home game vs. Colorado, leading by 3 with 15 to go. David Shaw is in house along with dad Willie Shaw, SD coaching legend who had long career in college and pros coaching dbs. cbs site says former star Chasson Randle will sign 10 day contract with Wariors after getting release from Chinese team.
Fred Biletnikoff is at the Sac Kings game. Cool to see him.
Thinking of moving to Northport, Alabama. It’ll take longer for coronavirus to get there.
I heard someone say they’re not drinking Corona because of it. I do accept that people can be that stupid.
It’s still a rout in the U.S.A…
Juan Corona: 25
Coronavirus: 2
And Dow Jones -4,000.
It’s a rout in the City too, as Wizards blowing out Warriors by 20 in 4th. Beal had 27 at half did not score a point in 3rd and rest of Wizards outscored Warriors 31-19 to blow open 6 point game. Good to see Hachimura the Gonzaga kid.
I think I just saw the lamest commercial in history.
It was for Sam Adams beer.
I’m still wondering if it was a joke or not…
38% of Americans will not drink Corona beer 🍺 now due to the outbreak 😷
I wonder what percentage of people think professional wrestling is real. That’s probably another scary statistic.