Pricing help: "The Lady Pitcher" postcard

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Posted By: Adam

Could anyone help with a rough idea of pricing on the attached postcard? There is writing and a postmark of 1906 on the back (since the post card was actually used).

Sorry for the poor quality photo.

Regards,
Adam

[Shat5]

Did you ever get an answer to your question? I have some newspaper articles about Carrie Moyer. I can't tell you about the value of the card, but I can tell you about Carrie Moyer if you are interested. Can you tell me more about the image itself and what the text on the bottom of the photo says?

[edhans]

Gotta be Jamie Moyer's younger sister.

[Rob D.]

Originally Posted by edhans

Gotta be Jamie Moyer's younger sister.

And she had a better fastball.

[Ease]

Originally Posted by Shat5

Did you ever get an answer to your question? I have some newspaper articles about Carrie Moyer. I can't tell you about the value of the card, but I can tell you about Carrie Moyer if you are interested. Can you tell me more about the image itself and what the text on the bottom of the photo says?

Deb, tell us about Carrie, I'm interested...

[Abravefan11]

I have a PDF file of an article done on her in 1906, I just don't know how to post it on the forum. It's to large. Email or PM me and I'll send it to you if you're interested or if you know how to post it.

[Shat5]

There is an excellent (and lengthy) article about Carrie Moyer in the Washington Post on August 6, 1906, p. 6. Title is: “School Girl Pitcher Wins Fame on Diamond,”

Moyer, who was German, pitched in the area around Allentown, PA. She was 17 years old in 1906. Her father was a baker, according to the article. She grew up playing baseball with the neighborhood boys and became a superb pitcher. She was a student at the Kutztown Normal School at some point. (Normal Schools prepared students to become teachers.)

News about Moyer was picked up in papers as far away as Texas and Iowa shortly after the article in the Washington Post. These articles noted that Moyer's brothers played on the teams with her and that she was planning to use the money she was earning playing baseball to study music in New York in the Fall of 2006.

I haven't had a chance to do extensive research on Moyer yet, but I plan to include her story in my upcoming book: [I]Bloomer Girls: Women Baseball Pioneers[I] which will be published by the University of Illinois Press.

[Abravefan11]

I think I figured out how to post this article. It's from August 1906.