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The batter figure is right-handed, as are all the Reviresco figures. I painted him as designated hitter Edgar Martinez, the best right-handed hitter on the 2001 Mariners, or any other team for that matter. |
This is my rendition of the 2001 Mariners. I loved this team. No they didn't get into the World Series, but there's something to be said too for tying a nearly 100 year old record for most wins in a season. There is something special about a team you support that you know will win every night, and when they don't it's a surprise. The Mariners were 70 games over .500 for goodness sake.
These are the 2001 Mariners in their blue alternate jerseys. It's my favorite Mariners uniform of all time (though I confess to liking the teal tops too, but most folks simply find them hideous.) I tried to do as much with them as I could. I have the numbers for some of the players:
Ichiro right field 51
Mike Cameron center field 44
Mark McLemore left field 4
Freddy Garcia pitcher 34
Dan Wilson catcher 6
John Olerud first base 5
Bret Boone second base 29
Carlos Guillen shortstop 8
David Bell third base 25
Edgar Martinez DH 11
Charles Gipson pinch runner 1
Stan Javier outfielder 28
I also painted up baserunner to represent Ichiro, Cameron, and McLemore.
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The outfielders-Mark McLemore, Mike Cameron, and Ichiro Suzuki. I especially like the Ichiro and Cameron castings. |
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The back of the Edgar figure. Just not broad enough shoulders for me to paint Martinez across the back of jersey |
They were fun to paint. I tried to include as much detail as I could. The trim on the sleeves, the All-Star Game and Safeco Field patches on each sleeve. The All-Star Game was held at Safeco in 2001 and the Mariners had an amazing eight players in the game that year. The cap they wore that year didn't have a S for Seattle that year, just a fairly plain compass rose. with teal to represent the cardinal direction. Despite a couple of efforts, I just could not paint the names on the back of the jerseys, despite using a tiny 3/0 brush.
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The Mariners battery-Freddy Garcia pitching to Dan Wilson. My wife still believes, hopefully, that Wilson is the greatest ballplayer of all time and should be in the Hall of Fame. |
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David Bell, Carlos Guillen, Brett Boone and John Olerud were the Mariners' starting infield. Boone and Olerud wen to the All-Star game. Bell and Guillen were later disastrously traded. The story of my life. |
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This is the base runner figure. I got a passel of them. Okay, four. I painted them up as Ichiro, McLemore, and Cameron as they did the most base stealing. However I painted up the fourth as Charles Gipson, a little used back-up player, primarily used for defense and pinch-running. Wonder where he is now? |
The team is limited a bit by the figure mix. Everyone is right handed, and it would be nice to have another pitching choice. However, some of the figures are really nice. I particularly like the baserunners and the figures I've used for outfielders-the Cameron and Ichiro figures.The batter is nice too, I've painted him as Edgar Martinez. What I really, really appreciate, however, is that John McEwan at Reviresco has taken the trouble to create this range of miniatures. I see myself painting many more bags of ballplayers at this intersection of my passions, historical miniature gaming and baseball.
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