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Glory Days
Digitally enhanced and colorized player photos -
back to 1889.
by Matt Fulling (Portrait Matt)
portraitmatt@optonline.net
Website: Portrait Matt's Home
Page
I'm
an I.S. project leader for a major corporation.
I've been a baseball fan for as long as I can
remember, but for the past 15 years, my interest
has been focused on baseball history.
I've been intrigued with the
ballplayers from the turn of the 20th century, and
how life as a ballplayer must have been. I wish I
was able to experience a ball game played back
then...from the announcements being made via
megaphone, to selling hard boiled eggs and pie from
the vendors, to the all-wooden ballparks.
I've read about Charles M. Conlon,
and his life of photographing ballplayers from 1905
- 1941. I also read and listened to the interviews
in "The Glory of Their Times" - by Larry Ritter.
Charles Conlon and Larry Ritter had the biggest
influence in my interest in collecting pictures of
the ballplayers.
I
learned how to colorize black and white images only
about a year ago, and found the results to be
amazing. I spent the extra time to research uniform
colors for each year, using the book, "Baseball
Uniforms of the 20th Century", by Mark Okkonen. My
goal is to make each player look as though he would
appear if you stepped back in time and saw him
live.
My
web site contains over 700 player images, and will
keep growing indefinitely. Each zipped file
contains 20 pictures, and there is an index with
all player names and which file they are contained
in. There is also a what's new section to make it
easy to keep an eye for the latest updates.
Here are some examples. From left
to right: Fred Snodgrass, Tris Speaker, George
Stovall and Amos Strunk. More samples here.
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Pinstripe Press. All Rights Reserved.
This online newsletter is not affiliated with the
New York Yankees.
The opinions expressed solely represent the
contributor's.
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The Highlander
Vol.9 October 2003
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Fast Facts:
Jim Abbott
In the heat of the 1992
pennant race, this one armed pitcher
tossed a 4-0 no-hitter against the
Cleveland Indians!
"I wish I'd never see them
again. I wish they'd disappear from the
league. Then we'd be winners."
Red Sox ace
Pedro Martinez on the Yanks
Trivia:
Whitey Ford (236 wins) is
one of three Yankees to win more than 175
games while pitching for the Bronx
Bombers. Name the other two.
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