Suggestions on how to frame James Creighton piece from Leslies?

[benjulmag]

Originally Posted by GaryPassamonte

I was thinking the same thing about the uniforms, George. I can only find a few of these teams referenced on the Threads of Our Game site.
1859 & 1859 Knickerbockers and Excelsiors- blue pants and white shirt
1855 Empire- drab pants and crimson trim on the shirt
1858 Eckfords- light shirt and dark pants
The Empire uniform on your woodcut looks amazingly accurate. The Excelsior looks right. The Knickerbockers and Eckfords not so much. I'll have wait until I have mine in hand to take a closer look, but there appear to be a few uniforms that are strikingly similar on our woodcuts. Maybe Glenn can provide a closer scan to better look at his copy.
This is not much to go on. The uniform styles could be from who knows exactly what year. They could be from the late 1850s up to 1865. Also, the woodcuts could have been colored in 1865 or in a much later year. It would be nice to identify a woodcut using the correct uniform colors. That would be a great help to Craig Brown in accurately picturing uniforms from this early period.

I believe Peverelly's book of American Pastimes lists for each baseball club it mentions the club's colors.

[GaryPassamonte]

It would be nice to have that information, Corey. It would seem that a team's uniforms would reflect the team's colors. Combining that information with the colors and patterns on the uniforms in the woodcut might produce some common ground that would be more than a coincidence. For example, the Eagle uniform appears to be checked in all three colored woodcuts. That would most certainly be more than a coincidence.