Girls! Girls! Girls!

[Wite3]

Joann used to post here often but has been scarce lately. She collects female baseball material among other things. There was one other about a decade ago but cannot remember her name...

Joshua

[carrigansghost]

There have been some posting, usually asking for info about family members that played.

Rawn

[bbcard1]

[milkit1]

I grock for spock

[sbfinley]

My wife frequently checks the board, but I doubt she has ever posted anything.

[DixieBaseball]

Soundettes or Southern girls if you will...

[travrosty]

there are no women sports memorabilia collectors, were there any men beanie baby collectors?


but i would welcome women collectors. all the boxing autograph collectors i have ever known have been men too.

[barrysloate]

Originally Posted by Wite3

Joann used to post here often but has been scarce lately. She collects female baseball material among other things. There was one other about a decade ago but cannot remember her name...

Joshua

Ju.lie Vog.nar

[FrankWakefield]

That's her, Barry. I had just recalled her name and was going to post it. She was on the west coast, knew a right smart about tobacco cards and Japanese baseball cards.

Both of the ladies mentioned brought civility to the board. We'd all be better off if they were here with us now.

[Wite3]

Barry,
You are correct...Julie was the other one...both were class acts...Joann still collects and is active on at least one more board I belong to...

Joshua

[ethicsprof]

Julie V.---now that brings back memories of many great folks from the ancient times.
If I remember correctly, she had quite the collection and sold most of it some years back.
all the best,
barry

[Bilko G]

My favorite girl on a Baseball card

[olrac44]

I'm not sure how many women are on the boards, but I owe my mother a ton for driving me all over the northeast from the time I was 10 until I could drive. I can't imagine how many books she's read sitting at shows.

[Shat5]

Hi all--I am also interested of images of women baseball players (or baseball cards) from the nineteenth century. Am writing a book on the subject for the University of Illinois Press. Deb Shattuck

[joeadcock]

Hello Joann

Beautiful images. Not seen them before.

[jmk59]

Deb!

Good to see you. I have a PM in my mailbox right now that I have not had a chance to respond to but thought might be of interest to you. Someone here has photos of ancestors (female) in bb uniforms. He knows who they are but not the team. I immediately thought of you and your interest in players. I will call his attention to your post.

I have added several items to my collection since we met. I may even have found the list of items we discussed. :-)

For all on Net54, Deb is writing what will probably be the defnitive book on female vintage bb teams. She is traveling the country as time is available researching teams and players. She immediately identified several photos and people from my collection that had me mystified and even had, at her fingertips, articles and references from newspapers of the time to people in my cabinets and PC's. It was amazing.

Deb and her mom came to Grand Rapids, and we had the most delightful visit and dinner. We met at the library, and the only place where we could talk was the children's area, which was empty. It was sort of comic - we sat on tiny chairs that were about a foot high around a short table enthusiastically comparing notes on everything from my photos to her research to a Bloomer Girl billboard that appears in a Mickey Mouse/Steamboat Willie short!

Good times. Any help anyone can give her would certainly go to a good cause.

Deb - hope all is well with you.

J

[jmk59]

Andy, I don't think I know where the North End team is from. It's one of my favorites though, between the smoking and the Who reference (5:15!) I don't think it was postally used. I know some people don't like anything on the backs of their PC's, but I always hope mine are postally used because the postmark is often the only slight tiny bit of info I have as to where it might be from. I also have 3 that have writing that makes it clear that the sender is one of hte people in the picture on the front.

Thanks again for the kind words all. The magazine is awesome. And I'm glad you are working on your misprints Johnny - those were some detailed threads on the printing process for sure!

J