Can someone tell me what these are and the value?

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Posted By: Ryan Williamson

THESE CAME FROM A OLD LEDGER BOOK, EARLY 1920'S THE LAST 2 PHOTOS ARE A POST CARD, REVERSE SHOW SIGNATURES THAT ARE SIGNED I SEE BAKER PLUS MANY MORE WHICH THERE ARE MANY REFERENCES TO DEL BAKER IN LEDGER

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Posted By: Rhys

These are from 1922. Value is hard to determine but the Real Photo Postcard is probably the best item despite the condition. They are not signed on the back, someone just listed the players names for identification.

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Posted By: Ryan Williamson

Any idea of the value?

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

The real photo postcard has quite a few guys there that made the major leagues at some point, but there are no real stars. Roy Ellam is pictured on a T206 card and I'm guessing the Mulvey up top there is Emmett Mulvey who had a long minor league career, but did not make the major leagues. I think it's a great little lot of minor league items. I would guess you got somewhere in the $100-$150 range if you find a Mobile/Alabama/Southern Association minor league collector.

edited to add - a little further research has found that Manuel Cueto is also on the postcard and so is Jose Acosta - two Cubans who had spent time in the major leagues. That should add value to the postcard.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cueto/

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Posted By: PC-T206

The picture is of the Mobile Bears, and it indicates they were the "champs". So, as noted above, the postcard is from 1922 (the Bears won the Southern League that year) or possibly 1923 (picturing the 1922 team).

I also see two more names on the back that could be players from the T206 set:

Schulte -- Frank "Wildfire" Schulte
Mullen -- George Mullin (often mispelled as Mullen)

Hard to say if those two are among the players depicted, but both would have been about 40 in 1922, so it is possible. Schulte played the end of his career in the minors in 1922, but I don't know if he played for the Mobile Bears. Mullin was finished at the major league level in 1914-15, and I don't know if he played in the minors after that.

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Posted By: Rhys

The Schulte is John Schulte and the Mullen is probably not George Mullen as everything I have indicates he retired in 1915 even from the minor leagues.

Rhys

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

It's possible the Mullen is Charlie Mullen who played for the White Sox and the Yankees...his last known team was Seattle (PCL) in 1919 - he would have been 33 YO in 1922 - still good playing years left in him. The first appearance of a Mullen with the Mobile team was 1920 so it just might be him.

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Posted By: Bill Todd

Take a look at that ticket. The price includes an amount for "War Tax," but still, even if it's from the 40s (WWII), two bucks seems awfully steep for a grandstand seat to a minor league game. Even Clark Griffith was only charging $1.50 for his Lower Grandstand seats in 1945. (Of course, the Bears might have had better teams...)

Bill