Jim, according to Lemke it is part of the set. But what you say makes sense.
http://boblemke.blogspot.com/2011/03...-reported.html

Cool Robert Wadlow postcard. I never expected to see a postcard of him on here. LOL.

1908 Indianapolis Indians Paddy Livingston Postcard

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Three new pre-Negro League postcards (and a few more)
 

1. c. 1911 rppc. Portland Giants (Oregon).

2. 1908 rppc. Likely Minneapolis Keystones players Topeka Jack Johnson at bat, George Hopkins (dark sweater), Arthur Irwin (right).

3. 1908 rppc. Likely St. Paul Gophers players Will McMurray (holding bat) and Dude Lytle (sweater; might also be Will Horn).

4. 1910 Akron Champs winning the Ohio-Pennsylvania pennant 4-1 over Canton.

5. 1909 Oregon baseball tournament. Falls in the "Picture of the Year" department. Note the ball in the upper right.

The Prineville v. Bend rivalry was probably fierce. Any team from Crook County was instantly skeptical. Got the same rap around here, former name of Ellensburg was "Robber's Roost".

Love the Portland Giants PC, some of them are almost recognizable after further research :). As always remarkable PC's sir.

Do you believe those PC's of the Gophers were in Minnesota or after they moved to the PNW?

more postcards
 

Thanks! The Oregon game shown above was part of a 1909 tournament in a place called Prairie City, as iconic a name for an old west town as you'll find. Below are the five I have from the tourney. $300 was awarded for first place, $200 for second, $100 for third.

The c. 1911 Portland Giants (above) is the same team that Jimmy Claxton played for a few years later. The team with Claxton is shown below (he's in the bottom right). Some of the c. 1911 players are identified here: http://www.sportingoregon.com/p75660...5ea5#h52845ea5 . Any additional information on players is welcome.

The Gophers image above was snapped in 1908 when they were the St. Paul Gophers, as confirmed by the uniforms and players shown.

let's bump this back to the front page with another PC from my collection:

http://photos.imageevent.com/derekgr...Maranville.jpg

more postcards
 

well that went over like a fart in church...let's try this again...hopefully this thread can stay on the front page for longer than two days!

1912 Austin Team PC w/ HOFer Burleigh Grimes:

http://photos.imageevent.com/derekgr...2%20Grimes.jpghttp://photos.imageevent.com/derekgr...s%20_back_.jpg

Dirty postcards Derek, simply awesome stuff!

great image!!

Great postcards Ken....

Al

More Orcajo celebs:

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...s%20photos.jpg

Is this a postcard or a flip book? 1906 Winthrop Moving Picture Post Card of George Dixon vs. Chester Leon.

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...op%20Dixon.jpg

Secretarial signature but I don't care:

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...by%20Burke.png

The Rock:

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...rciano%201.jpg

Those are terrific, Adam--love the Foxx, and the others almost make me want to start collecting boxing!!!

Best wishes always,

Larry

Cuban X Giants
 

Thread nudge:

Nice Dave!!!

How many HOFer's can you find?

http://photos.imageevent.com/bicem/p...%20Pirates.jpg

Chehalis Proteges
 

The Grays Harbor County corridor had a thriving timber industry 100 or so years ago, and was a hotbed for baseball. So much so, that the professional Washington State League existed from 1910 to 1912.

This real photo postcard of Pearl Murray has long been one of my favorites images/postcards.

For reference, Chehalis, WA is about equidistant to Seattle and Portland, OR. Also of interest, Fielder Jones was player manager of the 1910 Chehalis Gophers, only four years removed from his famous Chicago White Sox "hitless wonders".

Ditto
 

Thanks Jeff, same!

Let me know when I get to come finally see the collection so I don't have to steal it from Safeco again.

Hmmm
 

Still mildly PO'd at you about that, but...awright. ;)

Wicked funny. You guys would have killed in vaudeville.

This is the extent of my knowledge about vaudeville...

http://media.indiatimes.in/media/con...10_460x460.jpg

Here's some vaudeville...
 

A little vaudeville announcement from Mike Donlin and Mabel Hite that he sent to Portland's manager Walter McCredie.

Beautiful

More awesome PC's from some of the PNW's best collections. Thanks Dave and Brian, but please save some good regional material for the rest of us, haha ;)

A couple in our upcoming auction.......

back to the front page...
 

1918 Moline High School Basketball Team PC w/ Baseball HOF executive Warren Giles. This was the year before he started his baseball career as the elected president of the Moline, Illinois, Plowboys baseball club.

http://photos.imageevent.com/derekgr...18%20Giles.jpghttp://photos.imageevent.com/derekgr...s%20_back_.jpg

A couple cool post cards I picked up from a fellow member.

I don't know if this is technically a post card, but it's post card sized.

Very cool, Derek. Of course, never seen that one before......

Not baseball but...
 

... I thought you guys would get a kick out of this 1912 Frank Patrick (Hockey HOF) RPPC.

The story behind the postcard is that the PCHA Vancouver Millionaires team was being chastised by their fans for not putting out enough effort. After Frank Patrick took a beating in a game, he had his photo taken and a postcard image made to show the fans that the team was in fact willing to do whatever it took to win. He had over a dozen stitches and bandages when this photo was taken!

Yes Larry come over to the dark side.

another PC
 

An oversized PC, but a PC nonetheless. Despite the large size, someone really wanted to know what was going on inside Scully's brain! All anyone has to do to find out what's going on up there is to listen to him talk...and you still can if you desire...crazy!

At any rate, who would have ever thought that there was once a Cal Abrams Fan Club?

1951 Dodgers Broadcaster's PC w/ Vin Scully and Red Barber:

http://photos.imageevent.com/derekgr...1%20Scully.jpghttp://photos.imageevent.com/derekgr...y%20_back_.jpg

Picked this RRPC up at a Fort Worth show. Not sure on the year since it isn't postmarked. thought it was cool. Looks like a guy that wanted to be a ball player.

Heavyweight champ Primo Carnera and his personal armpit sniffer.

http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NTQzWDM2OQ...V6GDt/$_12.JPG

hey, it was the Great Depression...

Here's one I've never seen before, a 1907 Toronto Baseball Team postcard of Fred Mitchell. Go Jays!

While technically not a postcard itself, I thought you guys might like to see an original Rotograph postcard store display. There are more photos on the new thread I posted.

Awesome postcard rack, Jim!

Zack Wheat! 1910 or 11

great stuff on this page! Love it! I really like that Z. Wheat card. I know there's at least one collector on this forum who is drooling right now!!

Nice Moore! Here's a 1908 General Photo Co. postcard of the St. Louis Browns. This team shot includes Bobby Wallace and that silly Waddell character. Thanks Jeff!

Great stuff guys, lots of eye candy. Here is one shown in another thread but it really belongs here...1909 Indian team

http://luckeycards.com/ppcunc1909nativeindians.JPG

http://i488.photobucket.com/albums/r...ps6x7d07da.jpghttp://i488.photobucket.com/albums/r...psaje9ovcu.jpg
http://i488.photobucket.com/albums/r...psw5ryj01h.jpg

Good stuff fellas...I've not seen that Pirates team postcard before, that is awesome!

My Newest PC
 

Thanks Jeff! Who's gotta Plank??

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s...ps0uc5yiro.jpg

That Usk, Washington Native American team PC is awesome! My brother lives near there in Conconully. To call Usk remote is an understatement, part of the Kalispell Reservation if I remember correctly. Great PC's everyone.

Yep I love that Wheat.

Always have liked these and glad to get an example to keep for a type

http://i691.photobucket.com/albums/v...psak7hyif9.jpghttp://i691.photobucket.com/albums/v...psnqz7xsdq.jpg

"More Info Needed"
 

This one boomeranged back to me from SGC un-holdered, from my first collection stuff, as "More Info Needed". They should have called but at least I got to keep it for my current collection :).

Not sure if one has been posted yet on this thread but heres a blank Rose Postcard.

http://i1368.photobucket.com/albums/...psg6htqyhj.jpg

bumping the thread back to top...
 

One of my new favorites, courtesy of a fellow board-member. Thanks Blair!

1948 Groganphoto Postcard - Bill McGowan (HOF umpire) - autographed on back:

http://photos.imageevent.com/derekgr...%20McGowan.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/derekgr...n%20_back_.jpg

Here's the envelope it came in, confirming the date of issuance:

http://photos.imageevent.com/derekgr..._envelope_.jpg

Here's a funky looking 1909-16 PC758 Max Stein Postcard of the 1912 Boston Red Sox!

c1910 Tama, Iowa baseball team with Native American player.

Great postcard, Dan!

Here's my contribution to the thread.

Cheers,
Steve

Dan,

here is another shot of the Tama team, perhaps a year before or after

http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/B-sAAO...53/s-l1600.jpg

Several of the same players.

Cool. I recognize the background in the photo, mine came from the same seller.

Here's one
 

Thanks

Quebec City Ross Rifle company team. Just don't ask the Canadian Army what they thought of the rifle while fighting in the trenches in WWI
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/ca...-such-a-weapon


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Negro League "action" postcards
 

Posed "action" shots of Negro Leaguers are particularly scarce. On the left is Andrew Williams in 1918. Charles O'Neill, also in the Negro Leagues during that era, is very likely the player on the right. More information on them, along with other Negro League ephemera, can be found on the website below. Also a thank you to the sellers and to the folks involved in helping to research these images.

Here is a sweet 1906 Sporting Life Philadelphia Athletics Team Composite Postcard I picked up on the BST. Thanks Jeremy!

Putting this thread back on the front page!

1906 Indianapolis Indians player...sold as a souvenir at the ball park which means it's possible that a card like this one exists for Eddie Cicotte who was with the Indians for a short time in 06.

1916 Reds PC with Christy Matheson
 

Just got this in.. Last team Christy played with was the Reds in 1916. Can't imagine too many items floating around with Matheson in a Reds uniform as the Giants was his team for most of his career.

Picked up some Oklahoma Indians baseball team RPPC's recently. Don't know a lot about this team but looking to research them.

1906 Indy player
 

Great card, Dan. Hope that others surface from that "series".

Here's the 1911 Seattle Giants, Northwestern League, taken at Yesler Way Park in Seattle. Chock-full of Obak guys.

Where is he?

Thanks Dave, and that's a great Seattle postcard.

Third row far left. We get used to seeing younger images of him, and I had a tough time seeing him to in the auction.

Third row far left. We get used to seeing younger images of him, and I had a tough time seeing him to in the auction.

Came from the Ivy Wingo estate

Saw it on eBay and couldn't find him. He looks like hell. Nice pickup.

Mathewson isn't in that picture; it was taken early in the season when Buck Herzog was still the manager before he was traded to the Giants for Mathewson. Herzog is in the second row from the bottom, second from the left. The player (actually a coach) on the far left of the third row is 45-year-old Heinie Peitz. Here is the same image (with the background erased) as it appeared in the 1917 Spalding Guide:

Wishful thinking I suppose. Did the seller mention Matty in the sale?

Yes, correct Matheson is not in the photo and the seller Worthridge did say he was in there. I probally should have looked more closely and I have already reached out to the AH. Still, a 1916 Reds team postcard unless there is another problem with the date...

This card below I know is Matty !!!

For those of you with large postcard collections how do you store them? Albums? Top loaders? My father has a LOT of vintage baseball postcards still in paper pages held in with corners. I'd like to help him get everything into something that's archival safe but not sure what the best option is.

Won this Tom Jones 1910 RPPC last night. Notation on the back says it was taken at Hilltop Park:

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m...pspnmq50az.jpg

Here's a Thorpe from the same series that belongs to my father. Can't seem to find another online anywhere:

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/650/2...babda60c_c.jpg

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/570/2...61ed0107_c.jpg

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5633/...76a1ef04_c.jpg

My latest pick up
 

Ruth

I put mine in top loaders and then organized into "shoe" boxes.

That's awesome!!! I have about 10 other PCs from the 1912 Olympics set, but hadn't seen this one before. Not that I've been looking, but I do check these out when they come up for sale online and I happen to catch it.

Very cool! Thanks for the close-up!