Help identifying Brewers please!

[Gormans sideburns]

Help, I am stuck!!! I've tried for hours to identify the Brewers that are pictured on a few of my old programs. I've scoured the internet and Media Guides, but no luck. Since I have no idea how to attach links, I'm going to list auctions from Ebay that contains the same programs that I own. There is a very good possibility that the drawings on the cover are not actual players, but I'm asking the Brewerfan.net nation to help me out. Thanks a bunch!!!!

 

 

#1 cgi.ebay.com/1990-Brewers...dZViewItem

 

#2 cgi.ebay.com/1991-Brewers...dZViewItem

 

#3 cgi.ebay.com/1986-Brewers...dZViewItem

 

EDIT: Removed excessive punctuation from subject line -- BtA

[burniebrewer]

My guesses:

 

1. In the middle looks like Mike Felder

 

2. Yount? It has that Yount swing going on.

 

3. Cooper?

[brettac1]

It looks like a 0 in that guys number on the last one, or at least definitely not a 5, so it can't be Cooper.

[burniebrewer]

I didn't even look at the number, I went strictly on the look. It looks like the start of Coop's approach at the plate.

 

I'm strictly guessing.

[jlau20]

My first thoughts when I looked:

 

1. Sheffield? Not sure, don't remember if he was there in '90.

 

2. My guess would be a somewhat exaggerated rendition of Yount.

 

3. I kind of thought Cooper also, but the number looks like a 0, 3, 6, 8 or a 9 to me. Maybe with a number in front of that one too since it looks kinda to the right.

[burniebrewer]

So, if it's an '86 program, it would be a player on that year's team?

 

If so, the non-white left-handed hitters were Cooper, Oglivie, Riles, Castillo and Felder.

[aracko]

#1 - Thats Gary Sheffield.

[jlau20]

2nd thought on the '90 program was Hamilton, but I'm not sure if he was cover worthy, so I'll go with Sheff.

 

And like someone said #2 does have that Yount swing, and the moustache-ish thing looks Yount like.

 

...and the more I look at it, the more I think that might possibly be a 5 on #3 for 15 for Cooper.

[PKBadger]

Question - isn't it possible that the team picked a generic looking picture for the cover? That way, if a player was traded mid-season, they wouldn't have to re-design the program.

 

What I'm getting at is that while these may have been modeled after Sheffield, Yount, and Cooper, there is a reason why you can't be certain.

[aracko]

#3 HAS to be Cooper. UNLESS its someone who was on the team the year before and they had already chose the picture so they decided to "CROP" the head and body out.

[jlau20]

I think they are generic images...generic but modeled off of real players on the team at the time enough so that people would think it could be them but at the same time if they got traded, it doesn't have to be.

[Paul77]

That third is most certainly Cooper. It's not a 0, it's the 5 from 15.

 

I took a known photo of Cooper and cropped it so that you can only see the corner of it. It's easy to see how that could be confused with a 0.

 

http://gobrewersgo.com/coop.jpg

 

Here's the original i used.

 

http://gobrewersgo.com/coops2.jpg

[brettac1]

That's the front, though. The one in the image in question is the back of the jersey.

 

I agree with those who have said that they are generic pictures.

[UeckerAddict]

I agree with those who have said that they are generic pictures.

 

My thought exactly.

 

And #3 is DEFINITELY Cooper.

[1992casey]

In the cover with several years mentioned, I tried matching up the numbers with team rosters on baseball-almanac.com. The numbers didn't seem to exist.

[Gormans sideburns]

I originally thought #3 was Cooper, but then I started to look at photos from Ebay, and most of them showed him with batting gloves on, and #3 isn't wearing batting gloves.

Hmmmmmmm.....

I'm guessing the other two are just drawings modeled after no one.

[Fatter than Joey]

Question - isn't it possible that the team picked a generic looking picture for the cover? That way, if a player was traded mid-season, they wouldn't have to re-design the program.

 

Yeah -- This is definitely the case -- In years past they would use pictures/photos of specific players -- but these are generic -- for example "#18" on the first yearbook is supposed to be from 1978 -- The only guys I remember wearing #18 from around that era were Bob Galasso and Danny Darwin -- neither were LHed African Americans.

 

I think if they wanted to have used a specific player -- they would have used a photo -- Like : Larry Hisle

 

I think on the second one -- they purposely covered up the # so people could not claim with certainty it was Yount or another player.

 

For auction purposes I would not list any of them having specific players on them, that might get you into trouble.

[TooLiveBrew]

#1 looks like it'd be Sheff

 

#2 is Yount, no question

 

#3, probably COOOOOOOOOP, but SS Ernest Riles & OF Ben Oglivie were also African-American LH batters that year...

[UeckerAddict]

#3, probably COOOOOOOOOP, but SS Ernest Riles & OF Ben Oglivie were also African-American LH batters that year...

 

It's the stance that gives it away.

 

#2 is Yount, no question

 

It may be based off of Yount, but there are some differences to suggest that it is generic. (i.e. facially, short hair). Plus, if they really meant for it to be Yount, either his name or number would be put somewhere on that cover(or insert). It appears nowhere (my dad collected those things. Yount, Gantner, and Molly appeared on the next cover-unless I missed one-, name and everything).