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 postmarked in October 1911 making it highly likely this set commemorated the A’s World Championship that year.
A snippet from a larger Louis Van Oeyen panoramic photo of the teams lined up on Addie Joss Day. Joss, the Cleveland Naps star, had died of tubercular meningitis at age 31 in April. A team of American League “All Stars” came to Cleveland’s League…
This interesting image was shot by Schumann in Hamilton Park, Chicago in 1907. It appears to capture a baseball game taking place. Note several players in the dark uniforms with white socks and belt, and with white caps with a dark bill. This matches the…
Classic portrait of Walter Johnson by George Grantham Bain circa 1916. This photo is a good example of editing marks that were made on these working press photos.