Top Row: John Knight, Eddie Plank (HOF), Jack Coombs, Socks Seybold, Rube Waddell (HOF), Chief Bender (HOF), Simon Nicholls, Harry Davis, Ossee Schrecongost and Rube Vickers.
Bottom Row: Bris Lord, Danny Murphy, Monte Cross, Jimmy Collins (HOF), Connie Mack (HOF), Topsy Hartsel, Rube Oldring, Doc Powers and Jimmy Dygert.
Fascinating team photo of the 1907 Philadelphia Athletics posing at Columbia Park in Philadelphia.
Dummy Taylor pair of photos, the larger of which is stamped by Paul Thompson with his earliest stamp. The photos were taken in the Polo Grounds in New York. Based on the stamp and the uniform this dates the photo to 1904 and is one…
A.J. Shumann double panel postcard depicting the New York Giants playing the Chicago Cubs on August 29, 1908 in Chicago’s West Side Grounds. This was a critical game between the league leaders and featured a Hall of Fame duel as the Cubs’ Mordecai “Three Finger”…
The penetrating glare of Kennesaw “Mountain” Landis in 1918 when he was a Federal Judge in Chicago. A couple of years later he would become baseball’s first Commissioner, decide the 1919 Black Sox debacle and forever place his imprint on the game.