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Posted By: Brian C.
Early images of integrated teams are particularly unique. Please post any you'd like to share. Here are three of mine: |
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Posted By: Brian C.
Nice one, Dan! Keep 'em coming. |
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Posted By: ramram
George Wilson - great Negro League pitcher. |
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Posted By: Ryan Christoff
Brian, |
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Posted By: Brian C.
Hi Ryan, your question is very interesting in that there was some discussion amongst myself and a few others knowledgable in the area about whether it is Pete Hill or Bill Pierce. I'll forward you the image to your personal email address. You can enlarge it to focus on his face and see what you think. Feel free to post the close up image if you can (I don't know how to enlarge the scan and then save it to post). Thanks, Bri. |
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Posted By: Brian C.
See my revised description to my original post in light of the following helpful insights (slightly edited for brevity) from board member and Negro League / Cuban auctioneer Ryan Christoff, who presently is running a great auction at http://www.cubanbaseballauctions.com/auction.asp : |
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Posted By: Rob L
here's your blowup of the photo: |
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Posted By: Brian C.
That's very kind of you Rob, thanks. |
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Posted By: barrysloate
Dan- that is a superb photographic composition, and it is both interesting and sad to see the African American sitting at the edge in the back, clearly segregated from the rest of the team. It's as if he wouldn't dare sit among them for the photo. |
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Posted By: Jason Mishelow
This is a woodcut from Noah Brook's Fairport Nine 1880- not only one of the first works of baseball fiction but also possibly the first story of an intergrated team as one of the boys is a black |
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Posted By: Brian C.
Here's an important image from a 1905 Wesleyan University Yearbook. It pictures the baseball team with coach Branch Rickey (top left) and African American catcher Charley Thomas (center). The team traveled in Spring 1904 to Indiana to play Notre Dame. The hotel refused to permit Thomas to stay there. Rickey persuaded the hotel to let Thomas sleep on a cot in his room. Thomas is said to have wept and wished that he could turn his skin white. Years later, Rickey would tell that story and say that he vowed that other Americans would not suffer the same humiliation. Forty two years after this photo was taken, in 1947, Rickey would sign Jackie Robinson to a minor league contract. |
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Posted By: Clint
Integrated or segregated teams form Kansas are impossible to find. Here's as close as I can get. I have one yearbook from Kansas University 1892 that that has one African American on it. If anybody has a photo of Frank Wickware I would like to see it. |
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Posted By: dennis
this thread got me wondering, is there any pics of say paiges all stars playing white major leaguers? |
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Posted By: Jim VB
Dennis, |
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Posted By: gregor197
"Integrated or segregated teams form Kansas are impossible to find. Here's as close as I can get. I have one yearbook from Kansas University 1892 that that has one African American on it." |
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Posted By: Clint
Greg, I think I may have that yearbook, that photo looks awfully familiar. I'm going to go through my storage over the holidays and see if I can find it. Thanks for posting it. |
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Posted By: Dennis
I don't know anything about St. Columbia, but this mounted photo seems to fit this thread because of the bat boy. Not a very good scan ...sorry. |
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Posted By: Brian C.
Here's one of the most unusual photos in my collection. Sorry for the bad scan; the original is in my safety deposit box, but I have a photocopy of it that I've scanned below. I was surprised to find and buy a pin of this very image on ebay. It's the Wilmington, Delaware "AA" 1902 team. |
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Posted By: ramram
Some others that I no longer own (an 1870's team / Grant "Home Run" Johnson and Bud Fowler's 1894 Findlay, Ohio team / and Jack Frye's 1886 Pennyslvania team): |
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