Baseball Toaster: Catfish Stew : 2006 Photo Outtakes #25

2006 Photo Outtakes #25

2007-01-03 07:50

by Ken Arneson

Shadows

OK, this is a Little League photo, not a Major League photo, but I liked the shadows in this picture.

You want a MLB tie-in? OK: I'll often see SF Chronicle columnist Ray Ratto at these various local youth sports games, because my nephew is the same age as the (son/nephew?) of Ratto. Ratto's recent throw-away line about a Joe Blanton-for-unmentionable trade has provoked the latest round of rumor discussions. I'm not going to comment on this rumor, except to say I don't believe it for a second.

Comments

2007-01-03 11:10:49

1. brewerjy

Great picture..but where was it taken? Our LL fields here in Cincinnati aren't anywhere near this picturesque

2007-01-03 13:35:18

2. Ken Arneson

Alameda, CA.

2007-01-03 13:43:49

3. Philip Michaels

That's all well and good, but what about the Catfish Stew/Humbug tradition of trying to guess the game situation taking place in these mystery photos?

I'll bite: a conference on the mound is breaking up, with the team in the field holding a tight, one-run lead over their red-shirted tormentors.

Either that, or the game has been halted while a random Alamedan brazenly saunters across the infield.

Brazen sauntering -- it's the scourge of our tiny island town.

2007-01-03 19:12:02

4. The Mick 536

Not criticizin. But what do it show abod tha gam? kid getin redy ta hit. Coch takin to some player who don ged id. Geddin laat. It be the silent time as all be thinkin, mabee. Strateegying. Huh. Yup. We all be sein what we be sein.

Good shot.

It all aint bout the big ball, eh!

2007-01-03 20:36:52

5. Ken Arneson

3 This is the semifinals of the Alameda Little League championships, Pirates vs. Astros. Judging by my other photos in this set, it's probably the bottom of the 4th inning. I think the Pirates are changing pitchers. The Pirates are indeed leading, but the score is either 4-2 or 5-2.

The batter (my nephew) will go on to drive in a run here, and then drive in the winning run in the bottom of the sixth. The Astros win this game 6-5, and then go on to win the Little League championship two days later:

catfishstew.baseballtoaster.com/archives/410075.html

2007-01-03 21:54:11

6. Philip Michaels

5 You have removed much of the challenge of guessing.

But I could have stared at that picture for the next week and never ever guessed that the team in the field was the Pirates. I was going to go with White Sox, or possibly the Marlins. But then, the prospect of a youth teamed named after the Marlins filled me with unbearable sadness.

So Pirates it is.

2007-01-04 10:28:37

7. John Seal

Alameda? Wow. My son is in NOLL SOLL majors, and none of their fields are close to this nice. This looks like one of them fancy schmancy fields in Concord or Petaluma.