Any help on figuring out who these guys are? I’m about as good at ID’ing players from the 1940s as I am at winning the lottery. Yes, absolutely tagging @sabrpictorial.bsky.social to try and better crowdsource. - ThreadSky

19thcenturybucs.bsky.social • 99 days ago

Any help on figuring out who these guys are? I’m about as good at ID’ing players from the 1940s as I am at winning the lottery.

Yes, absolutely tagging @sabrpictorial.bsky.social to try and better crowdsource.

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themoejorgan.bsky.social•98 days ago

Do you have a year on the photo?

Would love to help figure this out.

19thcenturybucs.bsky.social•98 days ago

Usually slide those in the Alt. This is likely opening day, 1944.

themoejorgan.bsky.social•98 days ago

Going to take a guess and say the man in the middle is Frankie Frisch. Looks like he was managing the Buccos that year.

Hard to exactly tell, but it feels kinda close.

thegaryb.bsky.social•99 days ago

@johnfredland.bsky.social ???

tdcourser.bsky.social•97 days ago

Vince DiMaggio on the right?

tdcourser.bsky.social•97 days ago

Probably not since Vince wasn’t a pitcher, but dang it looks like him.

19thcenturybucs.bsky.social•97 days ago

Sheer laziness on my part. We figured it out.

paulproia.bsky.social•97 days ago

I love all those old staged photos of players holding a ball or bat or glove like they are in deep thought absorbing some deep knowledge… I have one of Mack Burk with two catchers looking on as if he’s getting an advanced degree in framing.

kurtblumenau.bsky.social•97 days ago

Established player, old coach, and rookie is a classic formula for these pix. I wasn’t stunned when that turned out to be the breakdown of the Pirates photo.

retrosheettom.bsky.social•98 days ago

I’m not an expert or anything but looking at the pictures at BB-Ref, I’d guess the pitcher on the left is Max Butcher and the kid on the right is Roy Wise.

19thcenturybucs.bsky.social•98 days ago

Guess who should be actually reading stuff?
(Points at self)
This guy.
@thegaryb.bsky.social
@johnfredland.bsky.social
@themoejorgan.bsky.social

retrosheettom.bsky.social•98 days ago

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/butchma01.shtml

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wisero01.shtml

johnfredland.bsky.social•98 days ago

Maybe Rip Sewell holding the ball?

johnfredland.bsky.social•98 days ago

It’s hard to tell. Sewell was fair-complected, and the player in the picture looks darker.

moebius13.bsky.social•98 days ago

I think the date might be off. They were at home on 4/26, off 4/27 then on the road after that.

19thcenturybucs.bsky.social•98 days ago

Date is the magazine publishing date, so I’m believing this was the home opener on 4/21.

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