Image of Chief Bender warming up in Shibe Park in 1911.
This is one of several postcards from this likely set depicting members of the Philadelphia Athletics. The A’s Hall of Famers Bender, Plank, Collins and Baker are known to be included, but not more than one copy of each player is known to exist. They are identifiable by the distinctive hand printed front labeling format of (Name, Position and Athletics).
This vignette postcard of Hall of Famer Bobby Wallace is postmarked 1909, but depicts Wallace wearing a 1907 St. Louis Browns uniform. This postcard is similar to the 1909 Pittsburg Pirates vignette postcard series, however no other postcards of Browns of this type are known.
Game action postcard with Mathewson on the mound in the Polo Grounds in New York. His distinctive pose is reminiscent of his T3 card pose. Analysis of the scoreboard establishes this was during the August 23, 1913 game against the Cincinnati Reds. The second postcard,…
This postcard was likely created by a collector in October 1907. It depicts the 15 Detroit Tiger players who were included in the Dietsche Tigers postcard set. The collector likely collected the entire set, handwrote the players names and positions on the front of the…