Cabinet Photos

[Jobu]

Nice! I'll add the full Monte (and toss in a Fan Craze too).

Monte Cross Carl Horner a.jpg

E107 Cross c comp.jpg

Fan Craze Monte Cross c comp.jpg

Originally Posted by bn2cardz

Studio and corresponding t204

[GeoPoto]

[QUOTE=Jobu;2167123]Nice! I'll add the full Monte (and toss in a Fan Craze too).

(Sorry, no cabinet, but) This Cross played with Monte, although they are not related -- his Cross family had better hair!

Lafayette N. "Lave" Cross. Third baseman/catcher with the Washington Senators in 1906-1907. 2,651 hits, 47 home runs, and 303 stolen bases in 21 MLB seasons. He debuted with the Louisville Colonels in 1887-1888. In 1894 with the Philadelphia Phillies he had one of his most productive seasons as he posted a .424 OBP with 128 runs scored and 132 RBI's in 593 plate appearances. At retirement in 1907, he ranked fifth in MLB history in hits and runs batted in. He captained the Philadelphia Athletics teams which captured two of the first five AL pennants.

An excerpt from Lave Cross' SABR biography surfaces his role in fixing position player glove options: Yet nothing distinguished Cross, as he transitioned to third base, more than the catcher’s mitt he brought with him. A moment from a July 7 (1894) match at Pittsburgh is illustrative: “Cross saw [a liner off the bat of Jake Stenzel] coming and threw up his hand, which was protected by a catcher’s glove. The ball struck the pillow with so much force that Cross was knocked down, but he recovered himself in time to throw [Jake] Beckley out at second.” Cross was not the only repositioned catcher using a mitt in the infield — Boston’s Frank Connaughton and Pittsburgh’s Joe Sugden did as well — but he was easily the most prominent.

Critics called this usage “unscientific and unsightly.” NL magnates met in February 1895 and modified existing rules to permit catchers and first basemen to “wear a glove or mitt of any size, shape or weight” yet other players were “restricted to the use of a glove or mitt weighing not over ten ounces, and measuring in circumference around the palm of the hand not over fourteen inches.” Cross found a mitt within these specifications and continued to comfortably snag flies and knock down liners.

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[GeoPoto]

Back to Cabinets -- Al Orth

Albert L. "Al" Orth. Pitcher with the Washington Senators in 1902-1904. 204 wins and 6 saves in 15 MLB seasons. He was the MLB wins leader in 1906. He was known as "The Curveless Wonder" relying on control and differing speed. His best season may have been 1901 with Philadelphia as he posted a 20-12 record with a 2.27 ERA in 281.2 innings pitched.

He umpired when necessary as a player and in one game umpired and pinch-hit in the same game. He debuted with the Philadelphia Phillies in 1895-1901. He finished his career with the New York Highlanders in 1904-1909. He debuted as an umpire in the NL in 1912 and in 1917 was the umpire when Toney and Vaughn each pitched 9 innings of no-hit baseball, the only time it has happened.

Orth was an early example of the art of "pitching to contact". From Orth's SABR biography: A typical Al Orth pitch was once described in a poem by W.A. Phelon as a “glistening ball… but little speed, and scarce a curve at all.” During his 15-year major league career, “The Curveless Wonder” won 204 games, yet struck out just 948 batters in more than 3,300 innings pitched. The burly six foot, 200-pound right-hander threw with a seemingly-effortless delivery, and relied on pinpoint control to overcome batters. “To the spectators Orth pitched a ball that it seemed must be easy to hit,” J.E. Wray observed in 1928, “yet year after year he kept on ‘fooling’ the batsmen.”

Though some reports indicate he had a good fastball early in his career, and once even tinkered with a curve, by the late 1890s his success on the mound was the result of his “slow ball.” During the Deadball Era, Fred Lieb later related, Osee Schrecongost of the Philadelphia Athletics once caught one of Orth’s pitches barehanded while batting against him. Nonetheless, Orth remained an effective pitcher during the early years of the new century, and posted career highs in wins (27) and strikeouts (133) for the New York Highlanders in 1906.

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Small Iowa town Baseball team 150 miles south of Field of Dreams--the Acrobats.

[molenick]

Love the Acrobats. Here's another generic.

[Rhotchkiss]

Here are a couple mounted photos, which I guess could have been displayed like cabinets. The Jack Johnson is not baseball, but the OP did not limit to baseball and its pre war (any war after Civil War)

[molenick]

According to the back of the card, this is the Golden Baseball Team.