Significant WaJo discovery and mystery

[Leon]

Originally Posted by JeremyW

I read the original post & didn't see an image of the find?

It should be all fixed now.. The scan was too large. And the grainy look to it is the way it came over. (and a really cool discovery at that)

[jerseygary]

Great find! Thanks for posting it, and I hope you solve the mystery of its source.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Odd that his face is more obscured than the other players.

[Peter_Spaeth]

You wonder if at 17 he had any idea how good he was.

Here we are 110 plus years later, and he would still probably get more votes than anyone else as the greatest ever.

[frankbmd]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

You wonder if at 17 he had any idea how good he was.

Here we are 110 plus years later, and he would still probably get more votes than anyone else as the greatest ever.

Did you forget about Mariano already?

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by frankbmd

Did you forget about Mariano already?

I'm 200 miles from the Bronx.

Seriously, I don't see how there's any debate that the Big Train is #1, but I wouldn't call you insane if you said Grove or Seaver or Clemens.

[Jobu]

Very cool, thanks for sharing Hank.

I tried to dig around a bit and came across a 1922 bibliography of The Spalding Baseball Collection, online here:

https://books.google.com/books?id=9U...page&q&f=false

This shows at least two possibilities (there may be more):

Pg 6 Spalding's Official Pacific Coast Base Ball Book 1910-1911

Pg 23 Pacific Association of the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States 1910

I know someone at the HOF that has helped me research a few things - if we reach a dead end here shoot me an email and I can drop her a line.

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

I'm 200 miles from the Bronx.

Seriously, I don't see how there's any debate that the Big Train is #1, but I wouldn't call you insane if you said Grove or Seaver or Clemens.

IMO, there are at least a dozen, and maybe more like 15, that you can mount a credible case for.

[swabie2424]

Amazing find. These types of posts make this place terrific. Thank you for sharing.

[Chris-Counts]

It looks like something that was cut out of an old baseball guide, like the ones produced by Spalding or Reach. I'm not sure how early they did these, but I have an Oakland Oaks team photo clipped from a 1912 guide, and it's cropped and labeled the same way. There's lots of these clippings on eBay, and they don't sell for much, although some of sellers claim they are some kind of premium, or even, a card.

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

You wonder if at 17 he had any idea how good he was.

Here we are 110 plus years later, and he would still probably get more votes than anyone else as the greatest ever.

At that point it was probably as much a surprise to him as it was to everyone else.