1900's ads for Pillbox Hats, Ring bats and Bib jerseys

[Runscott]

...or photos showing the same, that can be definitively dated.

Show them. I'll start gathering scans later today and post them here.

Edited: What the heck, here's a good one. Based on the Governor's presence (right), this is definitely 1920's. It doesn't make pillbox hats any less rare...or hopefully valuable, since I have one, but I still probably should have burned this evidence:

[perezfan]

Judging by all of the different styles of hats in that photo, perhaps the pillboxes are old hand-me-downs ;)

[Runscott]

Judging by all of the different styles of hats in that photo, perhaps the pillboxes are old hand-me-downs ;)

I think it's called 'new old-stock'. Grandpa: "Hey guys - I found this box of brand-new pillbox hats I forgot to sell back in the 1800's." Only a few really cheap players took him up on his offer.

[slidekellyslide]

Here's an 1890s photo with a guy in a Bib Uniform. This may have been a teammate of Zane Grey. (I no longer own this photo, sold it years ago)

<a href="http://s22.photobucket.com/user/nudan92/media/xItems%20that%20have%20been%20sold/DelphosRedsSmall.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b331/nudan92/xItems%20that%20have%20been%20sold/DelphosRedsSmall.jpg" border="0" alt="c1890s Delphos Reds Cabinet of David Tipton photo DelphosRedsSmall.jpg"/></a>

Here is a link to the Delphos team that I believe has Grey in it.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mgrone/12247739666/

[Runscott]

Searching for low-hanging fruit on my cabinets web-page, I found this one. I don't even know what to make of some of the stuff these two are wearing:

http://www.t206themonster.com/cabinets/cab2BIKE.JPG

[batsballsbases]

As Im told Pillbox hats!

[slidekellyslide]

c1900

<a href="http://s22.photobucket.com/user/nudan92/media/1878-1946%20Lincoln%20Baseball/1890scabinet2.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b331/nudan92/1878-1946%20Lincoln%20Baseball/1890scabinet2.jpg" border="0" alt="1890s Lincoln YMCA photo 1890scabinet2.jpg"/></a>

[jerseygary]

I was writing a story on George Halas, football's "Papa Bear" and his time playing for the Staley baseball team and needed photo reference for the accompanying illustration. After much research I finally tracked a yard long of the team down and they were wearing the pillbox style caps. This was taken in the early 1920's and I thought that quite odd as the style seemed to have been way out of fashion by then.

[Scott Garner]

Great photos guys!