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Cy Young Note to his sister?
I received this Shibe Park postcard today, it's one of the rarest commercially produced postcards of this ballpark. I've seen it sell for $700+ so I was please to get it for less than $600.
The message on the back has me intrigued, I think this card may have been sent from Cy Young to his younger sister. I'd like opinions from the experts on this board. I've done some research and found the following: - Cy had a younger sister named Luellen - The Cleveland team had a game in Washington on June 5, 1909 - The Cleveland team played Philadelphia on June 7 & 8, 1909 That possibly puts Cy in North Station late on the evening of June 5 Take a look, let me know what you think...thanks. Jim
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I don't have any pertinent info for you, but I have to wonder. Would someone sign their full name when writing to their sister? That seems awfully strange to me.
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I say yes...I'm no expert though, but it looks like his handwriting.
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Can anyone decipher the message? Looks like it starts out "Hello Kid, the strike (?) was settled Saturday" Can't really tell much from there.
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Continued from above "morning and everything is quiet. Henry and Robert got through" is as far as I got, Dan. Look at the Y and G in Young on the address portion side. Totally different from Cy's writing. Was there a baseball strike around that time???
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My guess is he decided to get "fancy" with the address which was not that uncommon if you look at a lot of postcards over the years.
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What would "B of B" mean?
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Jim,
Maybe that is "By By".
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I think it says "By By".
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1910 census shows a Lula Young living in Fincastle, VA in 1910. She was born 1882.
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Luellen Young
Hi John...Thanks for the research and note, I've been using ancestry.com but could not find censes date for several years starting in 1909. The birth date of Cy's sister Luellen shows up as 8/11/1872 passing away in 1956.
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How about the theory that this is his cousin or another relative? |
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