THE FLYING DUTCHMAN GOES FISHING

mightyflynn:

Latos & Arroyo filming “The Season of the Whiff” video

via @Reds

mightyflynn:

Fordham [?] vs. West Point, ca 1950s

via Media History MTL

Willard Mullins: Golden Age of Baseball Drawings, 1934-1972

Source: fantagraphics.com

Nellie Fox: turns two and eats pie

1983 Chicago White Sox cookbook

Source: @LaRussaGastro

Find the recipe and about Nellie Fox and more here: http://larussagastronomique.blogspot.ca/2013/05/wet-bottom-shoo-fly-pie-nellie-fox.html

“Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in just that.” - Mark Twain

Source: http://everyday-i-show.livejournal.com/46292.html

Bill “Spaceman” Lee, Warren Zevon / Dashiell Hammett

“You’re drunk, and I’m drunk, and I’m just exactly drunk enough to tell you anything you want to know.” - Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest

1979

mightyflynn:

2013

Cover art by Brianna Harden

“The outlines of the hills were crisp, / sharply etched in the crystalline air. / Just wait. Today we really will fly.” - Curzio Malaparte

May, 2013

Coors Field

Denver, Colorado

Photo: Eddie Popper

Forbes Field

During World War II, from June 26, 1943, through the end of the season, a huge U.S. Marine made of wood stood against the left-field wall, just to the right of the scoreboard. Standing at parade rest, the Marine Sergeant was 32 feet high, 15 feet wide across his feet, and in play

Source: Baseball-Fever

Forbes Field diagram

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Source: Baseball-Fever