Anyone Collect Negro Leagues?
 

Curious if there are any Negro League collectors here. If so, I'd love to see what you have.

If you do a search on the archives you will find quite a bit.

I posted 2 Negro League associated scorecards last year:

1942 Bushwicks vs Baltimore Elite Giants

1944 Mexican League Scorecard with Negro Leaguers

Cool pieces. I like the R&H Beer slogan "A Barrel of Quality in every Glass".

This is my only piece from the Negro Leagues, but a valuable one at that.

I'm definitely trying start a collection, but all I have for now is a Buck O'Neil signed baseball.

Finding ANYTHING related to Josh Gibson appears to be a pipe dream.

I collect pre-Negro Leagues black baseball memorabilia - mostly cabinet photos with black players, but I have some other items as well.

This is a ticket book for the 1909 season at Gunther Park. Some huge games took place there that season, including the Leland Giants playing a series against the Cubans Stars and the Cubs beating the Leland Giants with Ed Reulbach out-pitching Rube Foster.

Nice stuff guys. A little surprised to not see any Jackie Robinson today. I did a little write up today for Sports Card Magazine about Jackie. If anyone is interested you can find it here: http://sportscardmagazine.net/2013/0...ckie-robinson/

I have a few Negro League autographed pics. Here is on of Lou Dials, I met at a baseball card show years ago.


Len Roberto

Here is another autographed pic , this one of Ray Dandridge. Ray's story was pretty sad, never set foot on a Major League diamond. but could have but the N.Y. Giants kept him at Minneapolis.


Len Roberto

Here are a few period photos

1884 Bellaire Globes featuring Sol White;
1923 Jud Wilson photo;
1920's Chaney White photo (very small -- cut from larger piece);
1920's Smokey Joe Williams photo;
1920's Orville Riggins photo;
1920s-30s Judy Johnson photo from Johnson Estate;
1927 Bill Foster photo from Foster Estate;
1930s (1938?) Cool Papa Bell RPPC;
1938 Gibson press photo;
1930s-40s Webster McDonald photo;
1920's-30's photo of Judy Johnson, LeRoy Matlock and Cool Papa Bell;
undated Bill Wright something -- appears to have been some sort of newspaper extra;
undated Jud Wilson with unidentified Grays player
Effa Manley press photo;
unidentified Grays player

I also have a fair number of Cuban/Puerto Rican cards featuring negro leaguers.

Very nice collection Kenny. I love the Gibson and the Cool Papa.

Negro League Pennants
 

The Stars measures 26" and the others are 24". All have rusty pin holes.
The group of photos, from K. Cole, are really nice to see!

An old 1890's X-Cuban Giant cabinet card that I've had for some time. Unfortunately, he is of yet to be identified. Note how primitive the photo studio is (i.e. backdrop).

Rob M.

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Great image of the Cuban Giants player, no idea who it could be though, and I have looked at a lot of turn of the century Cuban Giants photos too.

Fort Madison Iowa Prison Base ball Team
 

Posted this before but,

Here is a hand tinted magic lantern slide of the BIG FOUR baseball team of the Iowa State Penitentiary near Fort Madison. This may be the only image known of the Big Four club? There are a few known Fort Madison Prison baseball photos, but they are in-action shots taken from a long distance. I do think I remember seeing the same Block wall in the back ground of those photos....

I have done some research and can find references to the "Big Four Team" in the Iowa State Reformatory Press 1907-1910. That is how I am dating this magic lantern slide. I believe the Reformatory Press was mostly written by the prisoners.

Phil - Do you know of any 1890's Cuban X-Giant team photos? I've hung on to that cabinet all these years hoping I could one day identify him, but no luck. May have to send him off to an auction house and see if they have any ideas.

Rob M.

Rob:

I believe Hunt had a couple back in the early 2000's. Maybe try researching there..........

I just received this small autograph album today. Has all Brooklyn Bushwick players from 1944, including a fella named Gene Walsh, who was actually Gene Hermanski using an alias. Very interesting to me because I'm a Bushwicks collector, but on a page in the middle of a bunch of unused sheets was this one of the 1944 New York Cubans! Players are:
Rogelio Linares, 1b
Jose Vargas, cf
Gil Garrido, ut
Louis Louden, c
Hector Rodriguez, 3b
Rodolfo Fernandez, p
Dave Barnhill, p
Ameal Brooks, c & lf
Bill Anderson, p
Showboat Thomas, 1b
Claro Duany, lf
http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/i...ps4632cfde.jpg