Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Johnny Evers 1910 FINAL.jpg

Reason: Stax has returned to FPC (briefly)! Johnny Evers, the midsection of Tinker to Evers to Chance. A Hall of Famer, though noted by Bill James as one of the worst Hall of Famers of all time, probably owes his infamy to that poem. Restoration of this (even this isn't a pure original, someone cropped that a bit).
Articles in which this image appears: Johnny Evers, Baseball's Sad Lexicon
FP category for this image: People
Creator: George Grantham Bain Collection, restored by Staxringold

Support as nominator --Staxringold _talk^contribs 20:39, 4 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. The guy doesn't look like a professional athlete. Spikebrennan (talk) 13:46, 7 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Gotta love old school baseball. Ever seen Conan O'Brien's skit playing old-timey baseball? Staxringold _talk^contribs 14:37, 7 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support I love those old unusual-looking bats and gloves. -- mcshadypl ^T ^C 18:56, 8 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Interesting historical photo, but the composition seems pretty uninspiring. Centred, with a tight crop under his foot but tons of space everywhere else. A crop on the left would improve it, but probably not enough to be an FP IMO. --Avenue (talk) 13:26, 9 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

They aren't making any new photos of Johnny Evers. I would say historical value trumps style preferences. Staxringold _talk^contribs 15:11, 9 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No, they're not making any more, but this isn't the only one either. A Google image search picks up some much nicer photos of him, IMO. Even if this was the only photo ever taken of him, it seems this isn't the best crop we could get. The uncropped version here doesn't cramp his toes, for one thing. It doesn't look as clean as your restored version (which is nicely done, by the way), but I think it's at least as good as the original version you linked to in your nomination above. --Avenue (talk) 18:20, 10 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

FWIW I actually worked off the true original from LOC. Staxringold _talk^contribs 18:28, 10 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I didn't notice that. It's a shame the LOC image was cropped so haphazardly. On the issue of historical value, I don't know much about early baseball, but the galleries here and here make me think that the Evers picture doesn't stand out on that front either. On the positive side, there seems to be plenty of material out there to work with - good action shots,[1][2][3] and interesting posed ones [4][5][6] (or some combination).[7] --Avenue (talk) 19:28, 10 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Historical image, quality not bad for the time. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 19:57, 9 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Looks great, good work. High EV, good quality scan. Jujutacular ^T · C 22:56, 11 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support. High EV, good quality. Mostlyharmless (talk) 07:31, 12 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Hive001 contact 17:04, 12 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Johnny Evers 1910 FINAL2sh.jpg —Maedin\^talk 16:43, 12 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]