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Sunday, March 1, 2015

1981 Donruss Mets

My first attempt to figure out the time and place the photo was taken. Thought it would be interesting to start with the cards from my childhood collection.



1981 Donruss Roy Jackson #36
According to Baseball Reference
1. Roy Jackson pitched in a game on Sept 22 in relief of Mark Bomback, pitching 2/3 of an inning

1981 Donruss Mike Scott #37
1. Mike Scott started the game on Sept 23 lasting 1 2/3 of an inning.

At first I thought that maybe it was the same game only because of the guy with the fro in the left corner of each photo. But now looking it over closely, the guy must have been at both games?

Photos solved?









7 comments:

FMM said...

This is brilliant!!!!

Unknown said...

thanks FMM, it's a fun project. Enjoy!

Commishbob said...

I'd be willing to bet that both photos were taken in the same game. That crowd matches up. Look at the thing (Coat? banner?) just to the right of both pitchers plant leg. They both pitched in Wrigley in the first game of a doubleheader on September 25 of 1979.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN197909251.shtml

Commishbob said...

Forgot to make that link live.

Boxscore for 9/25/79

Unknown said...

Commishbob, so do you think that photo was taken in 79 and not 80?
Very interesting, I would have thought that they wouldn't have taken photos that soon.
Thanks for the input!

Commishbob said...

Chris, it's just way too much of a coincidence to have the Afro guy wearing the same clothes on consecutive days and whatever that thing on the wall, well that's what clinches it for me. Donruss probably just bought whatever photos they could find so having some from 1979 isn't surprising.

Kraft1963 said...

What does the back of the Roy Jackson card look like?