Chicago Union Giants Negro Postcard

[Shoeless Moe]

This one just shot up.....

http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.d...84.m1438.l2765

[bbpostcards]

Here's one of the 1908 Chicago Union Giants. An interesting pose and composition. Also note the equipment at their feet.

[bcbgcbrcb]

Figured this one would show up on here, thought it would wait until the auction ended however..........

[Runscott]

Joe Greene's in both, plus the second guy from the front. Not sure about the rest, but Tom Washington caught two games in a 1909 DH in Buxton,IA and caught nearly every game that year, and I don't see him in either of these postcards. My best guess is 1908.

[bcbgcbrcb]

Nice postcard and rarely seen but price seems very high to me. I think the fact that there was no significant price jump in the last minute is a telling story.........

[dell webb]

It's earlier in the 1907 season. Will McMurray second from right Joined the St. Paul Gophers in late August early September.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by dell webb

It's earlier in the 1907 season. Will McMurray second from right Joined the St. Paul Gophers in late August early September.

That actually makes more sense, since there are so many differences between the 'new' one on ebay, and the one shown above. Also, the 'new' one appears to show Will Horn at top left, but I haven't been able to find any evidence that he played for them during that time.

[baseballart]

Originally Posted by bcbgcbrcb

Nice postcard and rarely seen but price seems very high to me. I think the fact that there was no significant price jump in the last minute is a telling story.........

Phil

I have no expertise in this area, but what makes the lack of a signiicant price jump in the last minute telling? There were three bidders over $2,000. One bid only in the last couple of minutes, raising it $200 or so. One entered a high and eventual winning bid early and the other bidder bid a number of times to try and top it. It may not be the best strategy not to snipe, but I'm not sure how this would say this was an overvalued sale?

Max

[bcbgcbrcb]

Max:

I think the postcard sold for way too much regardless of the bidding startegy, would you agree with that? I understand that early Negro League items are scarce and this one was really nice but no major players as far as I could tell and I have looked at lots of these photos from the same era.

My point with the lack of late bids was that most e-bay bidders understand that, more times than not, just about all major items on e-bay jump in price multiple times in the last few seconds. I think this auction was a either a case of mistaken player ID(s) on the part of one more or more bidders or others saw the initial bidding action which was unusually high that early in the auction and figured the postcard must be something significant and jumped in as well.

Just my opinion, maybe if the winner was a Net 54 member, they will chime in with their rationale.

[atx840]

It is most definitely him, some great items displayed.

[Runscott]

Well, he did a good job with that video - I'm kind of stunned that his internet persona is so awful.

I've tried to get help from him before and it was a horrible experience - nothing like what you would expect from watching that video. He seems very likable.