Trememdnous photo of Alex Cole and Albert Belle, from the SI_Valut Twitter feed, which is really a...

Trememdnous photo of Alex Cole and Albert Belle, from the SI_Valut Twitter feed, which is really a great follow for this kind of thing.

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THis is awesome. I miss those uniforms. Lefty Albert Belle?!

With or Without the H

by johnf34 on Dec 2, 2011 1:03 PM EST reply actions

Those are my favorite Tribe unis.

Matt LaPorta is the bane of my existence.

by USSChoo on Dec 2, 2011 1:12 PM EST up reply actions

Wow, I guess I never fully appreciated how bulked up Albert became in his prime.

by MTF on Dec 2, 2011 1:07 PM EST reply actions

I usta work out with a guy in Cleveland who was Belle’s trainer. He said that Albert could get 10 reps plus with 225 on the 45 degree incline bench press. That’s linebacker strong.

Our best players wear suits.

by mauichuck on Dec 2, 2011 1:28 PM EST up reply actions

I’ve seen Division III linebackers do that.

With or Without the H

by johnf34 on Dec 2, 2011 1:51 PM EST up reply actions

Well, they are linebackers. So they count.

Matt LaPorta is the bane of my existence.

by USSChoo on Dec 2, 2011 5:12 PM EST up reply actions

It’s not hard to get strong if you work at it a lot. The difference between a D3 linebacker and an NFL linebacker isn’t strength.

"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools" -Hemingway

by notthatnoise on Dec 2, 2011 7:46 PM EST up reply actions

Exactly. I played Division III basketball the last four years and we had like 5 guys on our team who could have done that.

With or Without the H

by johnf34 on Dec 2, 2011 11:03 PM EST up reply actions

You understand I’m talking about an incline bench, not a flat bench.

Our best players wear suits.

by mauichuck on Dec 3, 2011 5:47 AM EST up reply actions

Yes, our strength coach had us do that more than the flat one. And I hated doing incline so passionately.

With or Without the H

by johnf34 on Dec 3, 2011 7:46 AM EST up reply actions

But you understand he’s talking about underwater as well, right?

by PBH on Dec 3, 2011 9:26 AM EST up reply actions 2 recs

On the surface of a planet with a much higher gravitational force, right?

Matt LaPorta is the bane of my existence.

by USSChoo on Dec 3, 2011 3:34 PM EST up reply actions

That’s Ballys at Severance strong.

You are reading my signature.

by rolub on Dec 2, 2011 9:54 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs

I need a giant of poster of this in my life.

by JulioBernazard on Dec 2, 2011 1:39 PM EST reply actions

When we all have the time, I’ll have to regale you gents & lasses with the story of how I got one of these vintage Tribe jerseys signed by the amicable Mr. Belle himself, right outside Municipal Stadium.

"Sounds like 'Take the Z-Train' to me." -- Antoine Batiste

by T.O. Tribe on Dec 2, 2011 1:46 PM EST reply actions

I want in.

Matt LaPorta is the bane of my existence.

by USSChoo on Dec 2, 2011 5:13 PM EST up reply actions

We have all Winter

by DixonCayne on Dec 2, 2011 7:00 PM EST up reply actions

My cousin has a baseball card signed by Joey Belle.

"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools" -Hemingway

by notthatnoise on Dec 2, 2011 7:47 PM EST up reply actions

He just did a private autograph signing…the guy who put it together for us said that he was very nice. He was even happy to sign some stuff that, you would think, he would get upset about (see: “Tic Tic SI cover”). I think he has mellowed out in old(er) age. This is what I got at the signing…my first Belle autographs!

by OscarDog on Dec 3, 2011 1:19 AM EST up reply actions

That’s pretty cool. I’m not surprised he mellowed out as he got older. Being under much less pressure and out of the spot light will do that for you. His life probably slowed down a lot after baseball.

"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools" -Hemingway

by notthatnoise on Dec 3, 2011 10:21 AM EST up reply actions

That and he probably got off the PEDs.

by tflannery on Dec 5, 2011 1:00 PM EST up reply actions

I got Reggie Jackson in 1978. And he was notorious for not signing.

by Jay on Dec 4, 2011 11:01 AM EST up reply actions

I’ll never forgive Bartolo Colon for looking straight through my pre-teen soul.

Matt LaPorta is the bane of my existence.

by USSChoo on Dec 4, 2011 11:39 AM EST up reply actions

Ha, I actually met Reggie in a men’s room at a restaurant in Pacific Grove, CA. He was pretty hammered that night. Interesting dude.

by talonk on Dec 6, 2011 2:24 AM EST up reply actions

Trememndous, indeed!

Hypothetically speaking, how would I obtain a frameable copy of this?

by baerga1 on Dec 2, 2011 1:48 PM EST reply actions

Probably tweet at the SI_Vault guy. There might be some process for SI to sell hi-res digital versions that you could have printed.

by afh4 on Dec 2, 2011 1:49 PM EST up reply actions

Okay thanks. This is now the second good reason I have encountered in the last week to join twitter. I guess I actually have to consider it now… yikes.

by baerga1 on Dec 2, 2011 1:56 PM EST up reply actions

He has an email listed on twitter:

Email andy_gray [at] simail.com

by afh4 on Dec 2, 2011 1:57 PM EST up reply actions

Trying my best to set nostalgia aside, those uniforms really do look pretty sweet, right?

by baerga1 on Dec 2, 2011 1:57 PM EST reply actions

They were nice, but I’d prefer a white or cream 70s version with the funky type rather than the block lettering.

by emd2k3 on Dec 2, 2011 2:37 PM EST up reply actions

As Choo and I said above, they are fantastic!

With or Without the H

by johnf34 on Dec 2, 2011 4:26 PM EST up reply actions

The block lettering and the coloring are all primo! I’m not a fan of the funky lettering of the 70’s. The current away unis bring up shades of the 80’s away jersey, but I wish they’d look more like this…