Rube Foster, the father of black baseball, formed his American Giants team in 1911. This is one of the earliest images of the team August 1911 at the “Big Days” festival in Fennimore, Wisconsin.
Top Row: Bill Pierce, Bill Monroe and ?
Middle Row: Andrew Payne, Pete Hill (HOF), ? , Frank Wickware, Leroy Grant and ?
Bottom Row: Fred Hutchinson, Bruce Petway (should be HOF) and Frank Duncan
A.J. Schumann postcard of the South Side park in Chicago infield view in 1908. The Chicago White Sox abandoned this wooden stadium in 1910 for the new concrete and steel Comiskey Park that would serve them for most of the 20th century. The rest of…
Eddie Collins strikes a pose in Mineral Wells, Texas circa 1916 where the Chicago White Sox trained that Spring.
Jack Coombs appears in this 1911 postcard sponsored by a local Philadelphia camera store, Haworth’s, which specialized in Kodaks and also produced real photo postcards for customers as explained on the below advertising sample. The only other known card from this set, Jack Lapp, is…