DylanBradbury Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 The other day I was looking at websites, and what they used to look like using the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. For those of you who don't know the Internet Archive/The Wayback Machine is, click here. While browsing, an idea hit me: I wonder if the Wayback machine saved old baseball player portraits? It turns out a large number of portraits were saved. Here's how to get your own... Go to the Wayback Machine, and type in a sports website. Here are a few examples: cbs.sportsline.com www.majorleaguebaseball.com espn.com www.cnnsi.com (This one is my favourite. It has the highest resolution out of all the sites I browsed. 115x175) I'll use CNNSI.com for the example. Click "Take Me Back." Next you'll see a page with a bunch of dates on it. Each date represents an archived version of the page. Click the date you want. This will load the site. If the date you chose doesn't work, try another date. Navigate your way to a page where they have baseball rosters. Each site and date combination differs, but it's usually something like Baseball>Players>(Team you want). Once there click on the player you want the portrait for. Sometimes an image will load... and sometimes it doesn't... (Try another date/player/website combination) If the image loads, right click it, and (in Firefox) click "Save image as..." and save your image to where you want it. Enjoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philthepat Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 Thats pretty damn awesome! Well discovered! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DylanBradbury Posted September 19, 2009 Author Share Posted September 19, 2009 Thats pretty damn awesome! Well discovered! Thanks man! Hopefully this discovery will make your life easier, philthepat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgbaseball Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 I used this a bunch a couple years ago, but as more and more minor league websites become a part of milb.com, it's tough to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DylanBradbury Posted September 19, 2009 Author Share Posted September 19, 2009 I used this a bunch a couple years ago, but as more and more minor league websites become a part of milb.com, it's tough to do. Hey KG, you don't have to use MILB.com to get to a team's old website. Just use their old url. For example: The old Syracuse SkyChiefs is http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.skychiefs.com. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GEOLINK Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 July 7, 1997 Headline reads "Starting pitchers Greg Maddux (NL) and Randy Johnson (AL) will meet tomorrow at the 68th All-Star Game in Cleveland. See the biggest and best Midsummer Classic Web site!" DAYUUMMM! lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GEOLINK Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baseballfans Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 Good stuff thanks for the link :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emath2432 Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 Damn, nice find. I wish I woulda thought of that about a year ago.... lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DylanBradbury Posted September 20, 2009 Author Share Posted September 20, 2009 Damn, nice find. I wish I woulda thought of that about a year ago.... lol Thanks man! Enjoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 now is there any way to get the full sized ones for cyberface makers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgbaseball Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 Mike Bordick. If the player had a Pressbox, MLB still has it for them. Just type their name in the Historical Player space. You know what to do from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 it's too bad this thing doesn't work for mlb pressboxes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DylanBradbury Posted September 23, 2009 Author Share Posted September 23, 2009 it's too bad this thing doesn't work for mlb pressboxes. Yah, you're right. It was the first website I tried. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 i'm trying to think of what sites would be most useful to us to use this, but i'm coming up with nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DylanBradbury Posted November 4, 2009 Author Share Posted November 4, 2009 I don't know how useful this will be to portrait makers, but I compiled as many archive photos as possible. Enjoy... MLBArchivedPlayerPhotos.rar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted November 4, 2009 Share Posted November 4, 2009 not sure if it will be useful for portrait makers either, but if you could ever get all the old full size pressboxes...well there's nothing i could say that would be nice enough to thank you for doing that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DylanBradbury Posted November 4, 2009 Author Share Posted November 4, 2009 not sure if it will be useful for portrait makers either, but if you could ever get all the old full size pressboxes...well there's nothing i could say that would be nice enough to thank you for doing that. Hahah, believe me I tried and tried to get those PressBox photos. MLB knew what they were doing when they blocked it from the Internet Archive. As well, I used these photos to get rid of every player who had an modern-day Toronto Blue Jays portrait, and replaced them with the less modern (better) ones, so there's definitely some usefulness there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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