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Rare Postcard of the Maple Syrup League championship at Vail Valley Field in Woodstock, VT in 1906. The Woodstock Invincibles were one of the first fully integrated baseball teams in the nation.

The story talks about “A game of considerable interest and importance comes off this afternoon, when the Invincibles, under Manager Eugene L. Taylor, play the ‘Owls’ on Vail field. The contest is for the championship of the Maple Syrup league, which was unsettled last year and which has been the chief topic of discussion in semi-professional base ball circles through the winter, spring and early summer…”

This article reveals the name of the baseball team and puts into context the banner which we knew nothing about. More importantly, we have a name associated with the team. The manager, Eugene Leroy Taylor, was an African American man born in Rutland, VT in 1874. By the time of his first marriage (1896), he was living in Woodstock. In 1900, Eugene was playing baseball with a Woodstock club on Vail Field. Eleven years later, Eugene Taylor was the manager of the team, called The Invincibles.

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