Great pickup Jeff, which are your favorite 3 in your collection?

Signed Mike Donlin postcard sent to Portland manager Walter McCredie
 

Here's a postcard that Mike Donlin sent of him and his wife, Mabel Hite, to Portland manager Walter McCredie in 1909.
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That's a tough one Jeff, I like them all! But if I had to pick it would be these three postcards:

Just picked this up from a fellow net54er the other day. You can see a couple farmhouses way in the distance, just a nice slice of Americana summed up on this one

Odd couple thread revival
 

1910 Greenville RPPC, that gives us all slight hope that a similar Greenville card from 1908 may exist.

1914 RPPC of George Kelly and Tiny Leonard when they were both in the Northwestern League (Victoria and Portland, respectively). Is it just me, or is Tiny Leonard separated at birth with actor Bill Paxton, aside from the bald head?
One day I'll dig in and find out why they both shaved their heads.

Jeff - love that Maranville PC. It's one of my favorites of all time.

Seattle - very interesting George Kelly PC. How do you come up with the 1914 date on the George Kelly / Tiny Leonard bald-head PC? I would love to learn about the back story on this.

George Kelly and Tiny Leonard
 

The Kelly/Leonard postcard came from George Kelly's estate many years ago. That's Kelly's writing on the front. I suspect it is from 1914-1915 because those are the only years that Kelly and Leonard were in the same league (Northwestern), and also because I acquired the two 1914 NWL team postcards below from the Kelly estate at the same time. Kelly is in the Victoria card (with Jacinto Calvo!), and Leonard is pictured with the Portland Colts.

Let me contribute to the best thread of all time! Here are a few postcards I received this week:

• 1905-13 Real Photo Postcard of Rube Sellers
• 1907 Providence Grays Postcard that includes Hugh Duffy (middle, black pocket on sweater)
• 1910 Lynn Shoemakers Postcard that includes "Sliding" Billy Hamilton (middle, wearing suit)

More Native American ball clubs

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Dan, do you know where that US Indian School card is from?

http://net54baseball.com/picture.php...ictureid=16775

The 1949 Evergreen League Champions lead by home town hero Earl Averill

Nice Jeff

Clint, it is from Arizona.

Picked up another Indian University postcard...this one was in Oklahoma.

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more postcards
 

Thought I'd revive the thread with some new additions. For more early postcards and paper visit http://www.sportingoregon.com - always buying!
(1) Shibe Park x 4, 1908-1909 (note how the second rppc was used on the third and the fourth).
(2) West Side Grounds x 4 (the first has a message about the Merkle replay game's outcome, the second is pm'd the day of the Merkle game, the others show the 1906 World Series).
(3) Cincinnati Palace of the Fans (players arriving at ball park).
(4) Addressed to Buck Barker: '48 Portland Beavers PCL postcard.
(5) 1895 Sporting Life postal card with Uncle Sam graphic.
(6) 1914 Walter Johnson. They don't make 'em like they used to.
(7) 1909 George Mullin throwing a spit ball.
(8) Trade card with nice graphics using the expression of the period in the caption: "Striker Up."

Fans "watching" the historic game 8 of the 1912 World Series/Snodgrass error

http://photos.imageevent.com/ltsgall...0WS%20fans.jpg

http://photos.imageevent.com/ltsgall...scoreboard.jpg

RPPC Armando Marsans, c1910-15.

Cuban HOF, who played Cincinnati Reds, Federal League, St. Louis, and NYY's.
Also Negro Leagues.

As usual, great postcards gents! Here's one I got today, a 1926 "The Spirit of the Times" Rogers Hornsby. Thanks again for the sweet postcard Derek!

I knew that PC would look good in your collection! I'm glad you were able to get a better scan than I...mine didn't do that card any justice!! Your scan makes it look more like it does in person!

Loving all the recent posts...let's give the t206 thread a run for their money!!

Billy Sunday in Bellingham, WA
 

These came from the estate of player who participated in this 1910 game umpired by Billy Sunday in Bellingham, WA. Love the scoreboard tower...and the horse!

Love the Bellingham postcards. Spent a lot of time watching games up there

B & W HOF PCs
 

Picked up a collection of signed HOF plaque PCs, and it included a handful of nice black and whites:

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old postcards of older team photos
 

1. 1871 Chicago White Stockings (1910 - Lew Lipset has the only other copy I've seen on his current on-line sales list)
2. 1889 Indianapolis Hoosiers (c. 1940)
3. 1889 Brooklyn Bridegrooms (c. 1940)
4. 1889 Washington Nationals (c. 1940)
5. 1894 Baltimore Orioles (c. 1907)

Reulbach
 

Comments on what the set identification is on this postcard?

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j1...chpostcard.jpg

Hi Frank
$ in Shield, I believe.

Correct you are, Mike.

I think the Crose Photo Company made these, and I think they are designated PC765. I could be wrong on those. I recall seeing an SGC graded $inShield, and I thought the slip had PC765 on it.

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j1...stcardback.jpg

It's not Crose, it's Suhling Publishing.

There's is no PC designation. And I've seen SGC label these many different and inconsistent ways, except the correct one as Suhling Publishing of course.

Maybe a few folks with $inShield graded can post so we can see the slips...

These folks said Crose. I don't know...

http://www.vintageball.com/Crose.html

Robert knows it's not Crose, he just needs to update his site. Crose was wrongly used in some guide years ago, that's where the mistaken id comes from.

SGC has no clue, the flips don't matter.

Here is same postcard per SGC. No ID
However, Jeff is correct. It is Suhling.

Fresh arrival:

Thank you both, Joe and Jeff. I think that PC765 isn't right, either. I think that's for the Dietsche postcards.

Maybe if we could get it right then the slabbing companies could figure it out. :)

Only 3 in my collection
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You would think, all they need to do is look at the back that I posted that links Suhling and the $-Shield logo. Most are labeled 1908 Cubs/White Sox postcard.

My 1st TRC Postcard...PC760
 

Thrilled to have this George Gibson The Rose Company Postcard that arrived today.


Patrick

This postcard depicting Lefty O'Doul and Japanese HOF manager Shunichi Amachi has a commemorative postmark dated 11/7/51 from Narumi Stadium, where the Seals played that day.

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...r%20PC%201.JPG

First one of these I've ever seen:

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...m%20PC%201.jpg

Ditto:

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...r%20PC%201.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...r%20PC%203.jpg

Suhling $-in-Shield
 

Hi all,

Jeff Prizner is correct. Suhling made the $-in-shield cards. I changed this info on VintageBall's 1909-1914 Player Postcards page in 2011 back when Jeff pointed out the error in the old Mashburn postcard guidebook.

However, I wasn't able to change the actual page of these postcards because the file got corrupted and any updates I made would delete the entire page!

I finally went ahead and re-built the page today (www.vintageball.com/suhling.html) and updated the old page (www.vintageball.com/crose.html), as well.

I still need to add some more of the actual cards, but will do that at some point in the future...

Robert S

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j1...trainingpc.jpg

Babe Adams and Marty O'Toole in Hot Springs Arkansas for spring training, 1913

Cy Young 1908
 

Have not seen this one ever auctioned off.

Pretty cool, does it fold out revealing more players?

sweet postcard!!! I have only seen one other (or is it the same one) in the 1991 Sotheby's Copeland auction catalog. Very sweet indeed!

That Boston postcard is amazing. Just picked up this one.

Greg

Yes, it shows the entire team and the pink ribbon is factory too... Reminds me of the A35 round album where ancy ribbons are attached. Behind the flaps are a group photos of 18 team members arrange on both sides of a nine panel accordian strip.

Got a BUNCH of postcards today...

• 1908 Detroit Tigers Postcard (Image is hand drawn by the sender, a true one-of-a-kind postcard!)
• 1913 Frederic Schutz Real Photo Postcard of Walter Johnson (Thanks Jeff!)
• 1914-15 Boston Braves Team Postcard that includes Rabbit Maranville & Johnny Evers
• 1933 Real Photo Postcard of Roland Styles (George Burke stamp on reverse)
• 1935 Greenfield's Cafeteria and Coffee Shop Detroit Tigers Team Postcard

Great PCs Jeff... Where do you come up with all those unique items! Walter Johnson is my fav of your bunch you posted.

Let's see some postcards
 

+1

I would love to be able to go back and watch a game that was played a century ago. Just looking at that postcard, you can only imagine the intricacies of the way they played, etc,. and also really appreciate the pioneers of the game.


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1909 type 3
 

1909 DONIE BUSH DETROIT TIGERS BASEBALL TEAM REAL PHOTO POSTCARD RPPC DIETSCHE Type 3. Postally used in 1910.

American League Publishing Co.
 

A near set of these can be seen via the link below if you're interested in additional cards and variations.

Here's a C.1908 Real Photo Postcard of Andy Oyler. Little Andy Oyler is famous for hitting the shortest (and muddiest) home run in baseball history (24 inches) on August 2, 1904 while playing for the Minneapolis Millers

Jeff, whats the story behind the homerun? No errors on the play?

Supposedly he hit the ball in the mud in front of home plate, nobody could find it, ran the bases and scored!

Vancouver Beavers
 

Postcard thread on the second page? Unacceptable.

Here's a cool series of 1911 Northwestern League Vancouver Beavers cards. Yes, that is a Beaver on the sweater.

West Coast baseball stalwart Norman "Kitty" Brashear in the car in the first PC, making a fist (I hope), with Jim Thorpe behind him.

JUST KIDDING re: Thorpe...relax ;)

Very cool postcards! Thanks for sharing! And thanks for bringing this thread back to the front page (where it belongs)!!

This Bob Fitzsimmons is the 3rd card ever to surface from The Stein Co.'s pre-1907 run of boxers. By far the best too, as he is a HOFer and the other two are of a journeyman and a contender. A forerunner of the Max Stein PCs.

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...immons%201.JPG

An upgrade for me and with a schedule stamped onto the reverse side.

Amazing clarity on the Vancouver card, love the sweater details.

Got this from a fellow board member

1875-1888 Postal Cards
 

These reach deep into baseball postcard history. Postal cards were a predecessor to postcards and private mailing cards. The 1875 Peck & Snyder is the earliest I know of with baseball content (two illustrations and ads down the right for balls, bats, uniforms). It was printed just two years after postal card use began in the United States in 1873.

The group of six that follows it below are from 1886, pertain to the Dover, New Jersey team arranging games with other local clubs - Roseville (Newark), Morristown, Hibernia (Rockaway Township), Hackettstown, and Rutherford - and are among the earliest of their kind.

The fold-out from 1888 is especially interesting. Addressed and stamped, it advertises Boston horse-shoeing businesses The Hub Force and The Back Bay Force and includes a clever baseball themed pitch under the heading, "Play Ball!" The interior has an 1888 National League schedule in red ink at the top with all the players and their positions at the bottom. Ads along the sides state that more schedules can be obtained from either business location.

1920
 

Nash BBC

I really like this thread! It is a great reminder of how many amazing postcards exist.

Below are five Buffalo Bison postcards I recently acquired. I like the poses especially George Detore's.

Alan

1936 Clowns.

1939 Clowns.

1943 Clowns.

Great postcards there Ryan!!! Those will never get old to look at!

walter
 

Pictured are two Kansas natives, Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators and Larry Cheney of the Chicago Cubs, both back in their home state in Coffeyville for Johnson-Cheney Day on October 30, 1913.

Early Griffey Jr.??
 

Looks like Murray has his hat on backwards..........predates Griffey Jr. a bit, huh?

Ryan...Great collection!

Nice

A postcard of Harley "Pete" Wood (Smoky Joe's brother) at the University of Kansas. Pete's actual postcard that he sent to his cousins back home in Ness City, KS in 1909.
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That Pete Wood postcard is fantastic! I picked up this 1913 Chicago Cubs Westside Park Baseball Stadium postcard on ebay last week for the bargain price of $5.99!!!!

1880 baseball postal card
 

This August 24, 1880 postal card to the Haymaker base ball club of Bellville, Ohio from the Fredrickstown base ball club from Fredrickstown, Ohio is one of the earliest postal cards I've seen referencing baseball (I don't remember seeing one from before 1880), and is the earliest example of a base ball challenge sent as a postal card I have seen.

Another from Johnson/Cheney Day...

http://photos.imageevent.com/bicem/w...%20Johnson.jpg

Show off:)
Great pickup!!!

I really dig this, nice pickup. I seriously considered trying to buy it but held off - I am happy to know that it went to a board member, thanks for posting it.

Great pickup Jeff, glad you got it.

Bbpostcards that Jonson/Cheney card isn't from Oregon or the Pacific Northwest. Don't be getting into my Kansas cards. :)

Thanks for the latest addition, Jim!

-Ryan

1906 Shreveport Pirates / Southern Association
 

I thought Southern collectors might like this one of the Shreveport Pirates of the Southern Association. It's postmarked 1906, very early for a team postcard. Two years later Chick Gandil and Zach Wheat played for them.