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baseballart
11-15-2010, 08:12 AM
I posted on the other forum about Mack's 1908 book How to Play Baseball (http://net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=129771)(the post encouraged the usual dialogue between Barry and me)
The book has a number of unique photos (unique to me, at least). This one of Mathewson I hadn't seen before, and it doesn't seem (again, to me) to look a whole lot like him. Perhaps it's just the cheap type 4 pulpy newsprint...
Max
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4107/5175728310_3d292e2f81_z.jpg
It doesn't look like him to me either. I am not sure what his brother looked like but could it be him instead?
barrysloate
11-15-2010, 08:40 AM
Funny, but it looks like Matty to me, although I agree not the best photo of him. He's wearing a World's Champion uniform so picture is ca. 1905.
Jacklitsch
11-15-2010, 11:08 AM
Here's Henry in 1905-06. Hard to tell whether he's wearing his "World Champions" Jersey. I do know that Christy appears in the World Champions set (Ullman) wearing a "N.Y." Jersey while some of the others appear with the World Champions jersey.
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g5/jacklitsch1/Personal/hmatty.jpg
Compare:
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g5/jacklitsch1/SGC%20Postcards/u1.jpg
Thanks Steve....
To me the original photo in question looks more like Henry than Matty...but I am probably incorrect.
Jacklitsch
11-15-2010, 02:54 PM
I think too if you compare glove styles that the Henry glove looks spot on to the one in Max's book.
bmarlowe1
11-15-2010, 02:59 PM
Funny, but it looks like Matty to me, although I agree not the best photo of him. He's wearing a World's Champion uniform so picture is ca. 1905.
They Giants wore those during the 1906 season -that was their standard uniform I believe.
barrysloate
11-15-2010, 03:53 PM
Thanks Mark. I assumed they were issued after the Series.
Jacklitsch
11-15-2010, 04:02 PM
Henry played in two games in 1906 pitching a total of 7 innings. He pitched one inning in 1907 and was gone. Hard to figure how he got in the 1906 Ullman set when the likes of Roger Bresnahan is not.
baseballart
11-15-2010, 05:55 PM
They Giants wore those during the 1906 season -that was their standard uniform I believe.
So Mark, is it Matty, or have I just been playing checkers too long?
Max
Jacklitsch
11-15-2010, 06:03 PM
1906 uniforms:
http://www.baycityball.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/nl_1906_newyork.gif
bmarlowe1
11-15-2010, 07:45 PM
I think it's Matty - but it would be easier to tell (maybe) if you could get a more paralllel scan. But, I understand that doing that can be stressful to the bindings of old books.
FCASSOC
11-23-2010, 06:32 PM
Has anyone seen the jersey that Christy Mathewson wore with the "Worlds Champions" emblazoned on the front?