Help pinpointing the date for this 1946 Feller-Paige All-Star Program

[Topnotchsy]

Pretty excited to pick up this program. The 1946 Paige-Feller All-Star Tour is legendary, and programs with Feller on the cover turn up somewhat often.

Recently this program was listed on eBay. On the surface it looks like a standard 1946 Yankees contract, but it was repurposed as a program for a game between the Feller All-Stars and Paige All-Stars.

Trying to get a better idea for when this program would have been used. Barnstorming and Exhibition Games 1901-1962, lists only 1 game in the series at Yankee Stadium, on Oct 6, 1946. Satch, Dizzy and Rapid Robert also has them playing on Oct 4th (though while the teams played, neither Paige nor Feller pitched) It seems most likely that this program is from the game on the 6th as there is light pencil writing on the front and I can make out Sunday Oct x 1946. I can't make out the "6" definitively, but it appears to be a 6, and that game was on a Sunday. The one question on that is that the lineup includes Stan Musial who did not join the team until the 18th after the World Series. I wouldn't be surprised if he was included in the program even before he joined the team since I believe he committed to the tour earlier in the year, and he brought some additional star-power, but I am unsure. The other games were on the West Coast and it's hard to imagine that games at the end of the tour on the other coast would have a program like this, since they made special programs for the Tour. The Yankee series right at the beginning seems more logical.

I'd love to get people's thoughts on this. Also if anyone has advise on how to make it easier to read pencil writing that has been erased.

[Duluth Eskimo]

Awesome program

[jakebeckleyoldeagleeye]

Originally Posted by Topnotchsy

Pretty excited to pick up this program. The 1946 Paige-Feller All-Star Tour is legendary, and programs with Feller on the cover turn up somewhat often.

Recently this program was listed on eBay. On the surface it looks like a standard 1946 Yankees contract, but it was repurposed as a program for a game between the Feller All-Stars and Paige All-Stars.

Trying to get a better idea for when this program would have been used. Barnstorming and Exhibition Games 1901-1962, lists only 1 game in the series at Yankee Stadium, on Oct 6, 1946. Satch, Dizzy and Rapid Robert also has them playing on Oct 4th (though while the teams played, neither Paige nor Feller pitched) It seems most likely that this program is from the game on the 6th as there is light pencil writing on the front and I can make out Sunday Oct x 1946. I can't make out the "6" definitively, but it appears to be a 6, and that game was on a Sunday. The one question on that is that the lineup includes Stan Musial who did not join the team until the 18th after the World Series. I wouldn't be surprised if he was included in the program even before he joined the team since I believe he committed to the tour earlier in the year, and he brought some additional star-power, but I am unsure. The other games were on the West Coast and it's hard to imagine that games at the end of the tour on the other coast would have a program like this, since they made special programs for the Tour. The Yankee series right at the beginning seems more logical.

I'd love to get people's thoughts on this. Also if anyone has advise on how to make it easier to read pencil writing that has been erased.

According to the book Bob Feller Ace of the Greatest Generation the All-Stars lost 4-0 with a crowd of 27,462. That was the largest crowd they had on the tour. The also played a night game in Baltimore the same day.

[Topnotchsy]

Originally Posted by Duluth Eskimo

Awesome program

Thanks!

Originally Posted by jakebeckleyoldeagleeye

According to the book Bob Feller Ace of the Greatest Generation the All-Stars lost 4-0 with a crowd of 27,462. That was the largest crowd they had on the tour. The also played a night game in Baltimore the same day.

Thanks. They played at Yankee Stadium twice to the best of my knowledge, but Musial didn't play in either. I'm leaning toward it being Oct 6, and Musial having been printed in because he was a big name, since he only played a few games on the West Coast.

[Topnotchsy]

Cool find in one of the other programs I have from that Series. Towards the end of the Feller Tour, they played some games against other teams than the Paige teams.

Jackie Robinson, coming off his triumphant season with the Montreal Royals, played in a number of those games. He's featured in this game.