ID Help- Visalia Ca. Game card?
 

As I am going through piles of odds and ends to try to get my collection in order I found this "card". I need to put a date with it and categorize it but have little info. It looks like it was part of a game at one time. The sleeve it is in has the wording "San Juaquin Valley League 1910-1911." I don't think the guys in the stands have hats on that would date it to being that old, but I am not sure. Any help on the approximate year or other info will be appreciated. For now I have it as "WG-Unc, 1940s".....(the date is anyone's guess) thanks!!

I live in Visalia, and I don't beleive that stadium was in Visalia. It is way too big. I have a link to the Visalia Park in the 20s. We have been only single A since the 40s, and our brand new park will not hold that capacity. It also has never had a roof.

John

Thanks...very interesting. I don't think I ever recall seeing a card with such a glaring error, if this is the case. Maybe some more of our Left Coast friends will have more info. I did some Google searches and didn't come up with anything definitive pertaining to the card.

Along the hat timeline
 

Because of the style of hats I would guess late thirties through the late forties...very reminiscent of Leon's hat wearing icon.

Brian

Neat piece, my guess is they used a generic stadium scene and then labelled it Visalia. For all we know this could be the only baseball themed card in the whole game, and that it was more a game of Life, or Travel, or putting together a newspaper, or....

Maybe a boardgame discussion forum would know more.

This reminds me of an old newsreel for some reason...like the previous poster said, might be a game piece to something...maybe ask the non-sports side.

Joshua