Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/1937 American League All-Stars

Original - Seven of the American League's 1937 All-Star players, from left to right Lou Gehrig, Joe Cronin, Bill Dickey, Joe DiMaggio, Charlie Gehringer, Jimmie Foxx, and Hank Greenberg. All seven would eventually be elected to the Hall of Fame.

Reason: A high quality and resolution image of SEVEN Hall of Famers on a single All-Star roster. And that's not even counting Rick Ferrell, Earl Averill, and Lefty Grove (another 3 AL HoFs on that team not pictured). And another eight on the National League team. This was a really good All-Star Game, talent wise.
Articles this image appears in: 1937 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Major League Baseball All-Star Game#History of player selection methods, Griffith Stadium
Creator: Harris & Ewing (original), restored version from this version by User:Staxringold

Support as nominator --Staxringold _talk^contribs 00:50, 24 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Composition issues, notably the person walking in the field to the right and the fact that the players seem to be focusing on something else. My vote could be colored by my view that baseball is pathetic, but the image still has issues. Nezzadar ☎ 16:39, 24 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Edit 1.

Support edit 1. Put about eight hours of work into that tweak. Most of which probably doesn't show up unless you view it at 200% resolution. ;) And Nezzadar, it's impossible to reshoot this so small flaws in composition aren't such a big deal as they'd be in a shot of this year's all star team. Durova³⁴⁰ 05:32, 25 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that Durova, looks great! Staxringold _talk^contribs 06:46, 25 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support edit1 (though the original is great as well). High EV and high quality. NW (Talk) 20:30, 25 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support edit 1 This is a great encyclopedic image. Outstanding. ~ Arjun 20:48, 25 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support edit 1 — raeky ^{(talk | edits)} 12:52, 26 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support edit 1, per above. Mostlyharmless (talk) 03:28, 1 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:1937 all stars crop FINAL2.jpg --Zoo Fari^Boo! 05:16, 1 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]