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Need help with a CDV. Baseball Commissioner?
Posted By: Matt Hart
I just picked this up this morning and can't seem to find anything on him. Does anyone know if he was a League President or Comm? |
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Posted By: davidcycleback
There were A, AA and other lower leagues around the US, each with a commissioner. |
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Posted By: Frank Wakefield
Well he didn't sign that, I don't think. He wouldn't have written on there when he died... |
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Posted By: Dan Bretta
The name does not come up in a search of the online Spalding guides. |
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Posted By: Frank Wakefield
What name or names did you search?? I can't figure out if that last name starts with an S or an L or what... and I think there must be an I in there somewhere because of that dot, I think it's a tittle, but maybe it is just an errant dot. |
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Posted By: Jim VB
I assumed the name on the card was Barry Linden. That makes it a difficult Google search. |
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Need help with a CDV. Baseball Commissioner?
Posted By: Matt Hart
Thanks for the help so far. I think the name is Barry Linden as well. |
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Posted By: Rob D.
I once knew a guy named Barry Linden who somehow bore a striking resemblance to Cy and Irv Young, but I know that doesn't help much here. |
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Posted By: Jim
There is a baseball field/city park in NYC called Linden Park. I emailed NYC Parks and Rec to see if they have a history of how the park was named. When they respond, I'll let you know. |
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Posted By: Kevin Cummings
An answer from the www.nycgovparks.org site although it is not much help... |
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Posted By: Matt Hart
Jim and Kevin, |
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Need help with a CDV. Baseball Commissioner?
Posted By: Kevin Cummings
I also scanned my copy of The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball and found no one by that name as either a league president or team manager. |
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Need help with a CDV. Baseball Commissioner?
Posted By: Frank Wakefield
The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, by Johnson and Wolff, starts its coverage with the 1902 season. We're looking for 1890 to about 1902 or 1903... my copy only lists league presidents, not Commissioners. We still need a Spalding Guide or Record for 1901, 1902... |
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Posted By: Rhys
My guess is that this person was not actually a Baseball "Commissioner". I dont think there was such a thing as a Commissioner in any Baseball League until Landis. I think the person who wrote this identification did so years and years after the fact and was using a term that was in existance in regards to Baseball when the ID was written, but not actually a position which existed between 1890-1902. I could be wrong but I have never seen that term used before 1920 in Baseball, just League Presidents. He could also have been a big guy in a small league and that was just the Family's terms used to remember a relative from long ago. I have searched all my resources and can find nobody with that name so I am thinking the latter is the most likely scenario. More often than not people's opinions and facts about past family members are much exaggerated and usually wrong. |
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Posted By: Frank Wakefield
Rhys has kinda hammered the nail through the plank!!! I think he's right on all that he says. All that is left is to find a reference to this guy in the 1890s. |
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Need help with a CDV. Baseball Commissioner?
Posted By: Kevin Cummings
Frank: |
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Need help with a CDV. Baseball Commissioner?
Posted By: Frank Wakefield
1993. First edition, stated. |
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