A really nice carte de visite of a young fellow in baseball attire just sold on eBay for a healthy $711. The photograph by James W. Turner of Boston (shown at right) wasn’t identified and the seller just added that “it came from a dilapidated family album of a Connecticut family that sent several members [...]
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Archive for March, 2012
“Ayer’s Sarsaparilla cured me.” Johnny Ryan, by then, the groundskeeper and superintendent of the Athletic Base Ball Club of Philadelphia gave this bold statement that appeared in J.C. Ayer & Co. advertisements from 1883 until 1885. Ryan, a mediocre ballplayer who’d been around baseball since the early 1870s, apparently had been suffering from rheumatism, one [...]
Sorry, no Dottie Hinson or Kit Keller here, just trying to answer a few questions about the Carte de Visite of the young St. Louisan (shown right) that posed for photographers Cramer & Gross, most likely a couple of years after the Civil War had ended. This carte de visite was sold by Hunt Auctions [...]
While perusing through Tom Melville’s book when writing the previous post on ‘Cuyp‘, I came across the name of Phineas Moses, an antebellum cricketer who according to Melville’s notes, was the founder of Cincinnati’s first Synagogue. Interesting and obscure enough for me to find out more about his life. Phineas Moses, was born in Gosport, [...]
Issuing photographic admission tickets for Cricket testimonial matches must have been in vogue during the fall of 1863. It’s been maybe 10 years since I last discussed with friends and fellow collectors about the novelty photographic photo-tickets that were issued for the Wright and friends series of benefit matches. Since a game of baseball had [...]
Here’s the link to Mark Fimoff’s latest (First of 2012) Mystery Photo supplement for the SABR Pictorial History Research Committee Newsletter. Mystery Photo Supplement – March 2012 (PDF) March 2012 Newsletter: PHRC Newsletter March 2012 Old Mystery Photo Supplements here: SABR PHRC Newsletter Supplements 2008-2011
James Creighton on another CDV? Why not! John Thorn’s recent discovery of the little James Creighton depicted on the ‘American National Game’ lithograph published by Currier & Ives, reminded me of the “Baltimore Base Ball Emporium” Carte de Visite photograph that originally appeared on eBay and later sold by Robert Edward Auctions in 2005. On [...]