When the Mark Rucker Collection was auctioned off by ‘The Best of Yesterday’ in 1995, an interesting badge was offered as lot #27 to go along an incredible selection of 19th century Baseball treasures. The catalog description: “EXCELSIOR BBC (OF BROOKLYN?) BRASS PIN” Small 1860s stamped metal insignia with pin soldered on back, approximately 1 [...]
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Archive for February, 2012
Special thanks to Mark Fimoff for sharing the links to his supplements for the SABR Pictorial History Research Committee Newsletter. According to Mark, the first supplement of 2012 will be published in a few weeks. 11 Mystery Photo Supplements in Portable Document Format (PDF) Mystery Photo Supplement – April 2008 Mystery Photo Supplement – June [...]
It has long been assumed that most of the unidentified photographic portraits in the A.G. Spalding Collection at the New York Public Library are Baseball related. Tom Shieber did a great job deciphering the mystery of a group of portraits that were incorrectly cataloged as baseball players and ended up being top billiard players of [...]
Can you spot the Photobomber? Hint: Look who’s between the first baseman and third baseman. Ok, now that you’ve spotted our photo saboteur, lets talk about the rest of the guys pictured and a little bit of early Notre Dame baseball history. In 1869, when Notre Dame University was celebrating its Silver Jubilee, Baseball occupied [...]
I’ll start my blog adventure writing about an obscure Harvard ballist… While browsing Harvard University’s digital collection, I came across a Carte de Visite photograph of a gentleman identified as Thomas Herbert Gray. Even though the photo hasn’t been tagged as being part of their baseball-related holdings, I instantly recognized the early gray Harvard uniform that [...]