Cats in Baseball

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Posted By: Max Weder

Also posted on the card board. Hope I don't start a 400 post thread

Images of dogs seem more prevalent in baseball memorabilia (think D&M).

Here's an image of a cat on a 1940 Quebec ticket envelope, for Black Cat tobacco. There is also the written reference to Rock City, which had a number of baseball tobacco tins in the 1930s. For me, it's also neat that the writing refers to my birthday, just a few years earlier than my birth date



Any other images of cats in vintage baseball?

Max

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Posted By: Mark

Max:

This is such an "off the wall" thread! I think I can support it though... does this piece qualify?

I believe it may have been a Detroit Tigers related piece, even though the uniform colors are different. The Cat/Tiger is wearing #5, which might correspond to Hank Greenberg. It stands 15" tall, and is a heavy cast metal. My guess is that its from the 1930s, perhaps early '40s.

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Posted By: Brock G.

That is way too cool Mark. Given the size and material its made of do you think it was perhaphs intended as a garden statue or something? Looks like to me it is wearing a college letterman sweater. How do you display that thing?

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Posted By: Max Weder

That's purrfect, Mark

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Posted By: Jodi Birkholm

Brecheen?