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Monday, December 14, 2009

Baseball Picture of the Day: Altrock does a Crossword

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Today’s image:

“Informal full-length group portrait of baseball player Nick Altrock, of the American League’s Washington Senators, lying on the field and completing a crossword puzzle, dark exposure, with two unidentified baseball players, of the American League’s Chicago White Sox, who are kneeling on either side of him on the field at Comiskey Park, which was located at 324 West 35th Street and bounded by West 34th Street, South Shield’s Avenue (formerly Portland Avenue), and South Wentworth Avenue in the Armour Square community area of Chicago, Illinois.”

SDN-065432, Chicago Daily News negatives collection, Chicago History Museum.


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Gamingboy Posted: December 14, 2009 at 09:20 AM | 13 comment(s)
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   1. Chipper Jonestown Massacre  Posted: December 14, 2009 at 03:47 PM (#3412117)
I've always been partial to Alt-Rock.

And Alt-Country, too...
   2. Pasta-diving Jeter (jmac66)  Posted: December 14, 2009 at 03:56 PM (#3412127)
"why, back i my day we didn't fraternize with the enemy"

so--any guesses as to who the Chisox are?
   3. Pasta-diving Jeter (jmac66)  Posted: December 14, 2009 at 03:56 PM (#3412129)
I thought the guy on the left looked a little bit like Appling, but he didn't join the Sox until 1930
   4. Vrhovnik  Posted: December 14, 2009 at 04:02 PM (#3412136)
"What's a four letter word for woman that ends in 'u-n-t'?"
"Why, aunt, of course."
"Then you better get me an eraser."
   5. vortex of dissipation  Posted: December 14, 2009 at 05:07 PM (#3412243)
Is the link down, or is it just my computer?
   6. Quiet Flows the Don Taussig Avenger (Edmundo)  Posted: December 14, 2009 at 05:24 PM (#3412297)
"What's a four letter word for woman that ends in 'u-n-t'?"
"Why, aunt, of course."

Please keep on topic, that's b-u-n-t.
   7. SoSH U at work  Posted: December 14, 2009 at 05:30 PM (#3412313)
Is the link down, or is it just my computer?


I've got no photo above either. Just click on the link for it.
   8. vortex of dissipation  Posted: December 14, 2009 at 05:35 PM (#3412326)
I've got no photo above either. Just click on the link for it.


Thanks!
   9. God  Posted: December 14, 2009 at 07:30 PM (#3412538)
That's Buck Weaver to Altrock's right. The other guy looks like he might be Eddie Cicotte but I can't see enough of him to tell for sure.
   10. Barnaby Jones  Posted: December 14, 2009 at 08:12 PM (#3412576)
That's Buck Weaver to Altrock's right. The other guy looks like he might be Eddie Cicotte but I can't see enough of him to tell for sure.


Says the photo was from 1925, so those two seem a bit unlikely.

Examining the inscriptions on the side, I'm gonna go with Ted Blankenship and Sarge Connally.
   11. Steve Treder  Posted: December 14, 2009 at 09:00 PM (#3412606)
I've got no photo above either. Just click on the link for it.

Well, I click and I click, right-click, left-click, single-click, double-click. I get nuthin.
   12. Pasta-diving Jeter (jmac66)  Posted: December 14, 2009 at 11:01 PM (#3412758)
Examining the inscriptions on the side, I'm gonna go with Ted Blankenship and Sarge Connally.

well spotted, Bruce!!

I cheated and put the image in photoshop and blew up the writing, and its clear it is those two
   13. OCF  Posted: December 14, 2009 at 11:23 PM (#3412795)
Not to be too literal-minded about this - but "player" isn't exactly the right description for Altrock. Assuming this is 1925, he was 48 years old at the time, significantly older than the other two in the picture. His playing career essentially ended in 1909, although he made scattered token appearances for many years afterwards, the last in 1924. He did not appear as a player in 1925.

I would presume, since he is in uniform, that he was employed as a coach - and perhaps, theoretically, as a pitcher although that didn't happen all year.

But wasn't he also an entertainer? A ballpark clown? Something like that?
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