Oldest Memorabilia

[khkco4bls]

I want the Lyman's self adjusting bat. Very cool

[vintagesportscollector]

Originally Posted by khkco4bls

I want the Lyman's self adjusting bat. Very cool

Interesting description...it's a Corked bat.

[seattlerainiers]

An unremarkable baseball tintype, except for the fact that it is depicts an Alaska ballplayer (and is reversed...unusual in a tintype)

[vintagesportscollector]

I find it interesting too that he is basically wearing what looks like a modern T-shirt, and the collar and sleeves look like they were drawn on in the photo to add the dark edging.

[Runscott]

I can't recall ever seeing a tintype with lettering that was NOT reversed - all of mine have been reversed.

[bigfanNY]

Picked these up this month from a board member. 1878, 1879, 1881. the 1881 vs Chicago With both Anson and Kelly... and board favorite Ross Barnes. I will upload more pics later.

[bmarlowe1]

Originally Posted by vintagesportscollector

I find it interesting too that he is basically wearing what looks like a modern T-shirt, and the collar and sleeves look like they were drawn on in the photo to add the dark edging.

This uniform style was briefly popular in the mid 1870s.

[ramram]

Originally Posted by seattlerainiers

An unremarkable baseball tintype, except for the fact that it is depicts an Alaska ballplayer (and is reversed...unusual in a tintype)

Regarding your tintype, I wonder what the infatuation with Alaska was that there were a fair number of teams named "Alaska" in the 1860's/1870's. I know there was an "Alaska" team from Brooklyn, NY. There was also an "Alaska" team from Fairhaven, Mass that I have in an 1867 scorebook. Probably several others as well. It caused me to look up Alaska in Wiki and I see that the U.S. purchased it in 1867 from Russia which, I suppose, was the reason. Still seems odd that a team would name themselves after a remote, little known, wilderness.

Rob M.

P.S. As Scott alluded to - All tintypes were produced as mirror images (as well as ambrotypes and dags). If you see one that is not reversed, either it's a photo of a photo (a mirror image of a mirror image) or, as is often seen in Civl War images, the photographer made the correction on the original image with overpainting.

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[sam majors]

I will try and post pictures of 2 Harvard Yale baseball score cards. The 1881 is smaller than the 1887. The 1887 has Stagg in the lineup as a pitcher for Yale. It's split at the spine and missing inch and a half of paper on right top front cover. The 1881 is in much better shape. Sam Majors

[sam majors]

Here is the 1881 Harvard Yale score card.