Vintage Lacrosse cards - need some education

[Michael B]

Originally Posted by gfgcom

I am selling lots of these up on ebay right now and have more scheduled to go up in the next few weeks and will possibly be selling some complete sets too

here is a link to one of them.



https://www.ebay.com/itm/266344363191

One of the cards you have is interesting. Tom Gorman won a gold medal in lacrosse at the 1908 Olympics. He brought professional baseball to Ottawa in 1951 - Ottawa Giants. He also owned the Ottawa Senators of the QSHL.

Is one of the other cards misnamed? Could G Cattarinich be George Cattanach who played for the Winnipeg Shamrocks and won a gold medal in lacrosse at the 1904 Olympics? I could not find either name on the Canadian Lacross HOF list.

I did notice on their list that they had the 1928 Canadian Olympic lacrosse team as inductees. Lacrosse was only a demonstration sport in Amsterdam. Not technically Olympians much like members of the 1984 and 1988 U.S. Olympic baseball teams - McGuire, Larkin, Jim Abbott etc.

[Exhibitman]

One other name of note in the C60 and C59 sets is heavyweight champ and boxing HOFer Tommy Burns. Here is the C60:



The C59 is the same image with a different colored background.