Fascinating handwritten letter from Chief Bender to D.A. Fletcher who was organizing a barnstorming tour for after the 1910 baseball season. Fletcher’s tour was ultimately nixed by the National Commission who ran baseball at that time. The players’ frustration with such control over them led…
Chief Bender’s career spanned the years between 1903 and 1917, square in the heart of the Deadball Era. As an accomplished player on Championship caliber teams he appeared in many of the ephemera sets of the period. This display contains tobacco cards, candy cards, photos,…
This prototype card was likely produced for advertising purposes as another like it has never been seen. There is a Reach American League Official baseball behind Bender so there may be some link there.
Charles Conlon photo of Albert Kip Selbach in 1904 with the Boston Red Sox.
Nap Lajoie in an early image. This photo was shown in the 1906 Lajoie Baseball Guide.
Cy Young at the bat in Spring Training 1911. This photo was likely taken in Hot Springs, Arkansas in February where a conglomeration of Major League players gathered before joining their teams. Note the glove tucked into his waist and his Cleveland sweater. Judging by…
Taken by a fan from the stands at Cy Young Day on August 13, 1908 at Huntington Grounds in Boston as the Red Sox played a team of American League All-Stars who were recruited for the occasion. Young is seen at home plate receiving his…
Home Run Baker scores a run during the 1913 World Series. The A’s hunchback mascot and good luck charm, Louis Van Zelst, is there to congratulate him.
Conlon image of George Winter in 1904. It was the image for an embossed postcard in circa 1906.
Stunning photo of Vic Willis in 1909 in the newly constructed Forbes Field in Pittsburgh. Perhaps the finest on field image of Willis that exits. 1909 was the last year Willis was with the Pirates and was also the year Forbes Field opened, thus definitely…
Vic Wills as photographed by Charles Conlon in 1904. Willis is shown as a member of the NL’s Boston Beaneaters. The photo was taken at Brooklyn’s Washington Park and the Guinea Flats Apartments visible in the background.
Zack Wheat’s powerful swing captured by Charles Conlon. The second set of images at bottom, which are not in the collection, show Wheat’s signature on the back as well Conlon’s Stamp. This photo was also used for Wheat’s 1927 Exhibit card.