One of the best images of Home Run Baker by Louis Van Oeyen who at his prime.
This image is from 1909, Baker’s rookie season. We know that from the cap, collar and two strip socks which the A’s used in 1909. The clincher is Cleveland’s League Park in the background, by 1910 the stadium had been redone.
Note the Van Oeyen blind stamp which is behind Baker’s left heel.
This is a game program from Babe Ruth’s second game, the game depicted on the real photo postcard of Ruth in this collection. This is the first appearance of Ruth’s name in a Major League program. The program shown above for was issued for the…
One of the few known prints by Robert Tebbs with his distinctive stamp on back. This image of Cecil Ferguson was used for a Police Gazette supplement in 1907.
Rube Marquard depicted in his first ever Major League game. Marquard was called up to the Giants on September 23rd 1908 after being purchased for $11K from Indianapolis that summer. He appeared in his one and only game in 1908 on September 25th. Bull Durham…