Putting the Walter Mails Game cards in the spotlight

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by Pat R

Old Cardboard lists Mails as the creator but it was actually George Groves that invented the game.

Interesting fact Pat. I had previously noticed that the Groves card in the set did not have a game result on the card (Single, Out, etc.). I guess if you create the set you've earned the right to put yourself into it. Apparently Groves was from Oakland or somewhere in the Bay Area, and thus was in the neck of the woods to line up Walter Mails as an endorser. Walter spent the 1923 and 1924 seasons playing for Oakland in the PCL.

As far as I can tell his card reads:

George N. Groves

Manager of Six Consecutive Junior Base Ball Championships

namely: Oakland Examiner League 1922-1923 (Three Times) The Oakland Post

and Post Esquire Class C Leagues, under the name of

BARNEY'S

Once again, another blatant Oakland connection, and I assume those leagues mentioned were associated with newspapers in the East Bay.


Brian (image once again from Old Cardboard site)