Cleveland Naps team postcard showcasing Carl Horner photographic images. This card was issued by the Souvenir Post Card Shop in Cleveland and is rare with the advertising slug on front. The shop issued a full postcard set featuring the individual player shots shown here in larger images. Many of these images were used on the T206 baseball card set in 1909-1911.

This card was postmarked in early July 1906. Note the handwritten inscription on the front “How is this for a bunch to go up against the Cubs and of course get hammered in the World Series”. Cleveland fans were pessimists even then! In early July 1906 the Naps were in the thick of the A.L. race and the Cubs were starting to pull away in the N.L.

It could be that given this postcard was mailed in 1906 and has the advertising slug it was issued later in the printing process for this 1905 issued card.

Here is the individual postcard of Robert Rhodes, seen at top right in the composite, which is also in the Collection.