Cool Negro League and other Postcards.....
 

I like looking at old Negro League, amatuer or professional, postcards. Haven't seen too many lately. Here is one (shown before but still cool)....

https://luckeycards.com/negro.jpg

I've probably shown most of these before, but what the hey... probably my best cards. All feature HOFers.

Awesome stuff, Ken!

Cool postcard, Leon. Postally used or any info on back as to the location of the team?

Great postcards Ken. Thanks for sharing.

Phil I am pretty sure it is a postcard with no writing or cancelation on back. Unlike this one. Shown before but fits the thread.

https://luckeycards.com/gilck2.jpg

So now I know....
 

Where all the good stuff goes.... congrats Ken.... very cool and important pieces!

Dink Mothell

I have a couple postcards of Brown's Tennessee Rats

Rats Henderson
 

Not very pretty, but the only one I have ever seen and it was signed. Plus, it came with the note.

Some beautiful postcards here. Don't see ones like those showing up I auction often.

Thanks, guys!

Cool Papa Bell
 

trimmed like there's no tomorrow, but it's the earliest individual image of Cool Papa around...and I think it's the only one. Taken when Cool Papa was with the Cienfuegos team c1929. Yes, it has a postcard back...

https://photos.imageevent.com/derekg...-30%20Bell.jpg

And Kenny, killer postcards! Thanks for taking most (if not all) of the great negro league postcards still floating around out there.

Oh, and it was nice to see an Al Jurgela sighting on this forum!

+1000!!

Love that one, Derek. I had a chance to buy it once from a long-time previous owner but let the trimming prevented me from paying the asking price. If the opportunity came up later in my HOF RC collecting days, I probably would have made the purchase. Condition can't deter you from buying 1-of-a-kind cards, you never know when/if you'll ever get another chance.

hey guys....
 

sorry for my long time absence.... some crazy times in life over the last year and the collecting had mostly stopped... i am not "back", but now with the COVID things have slowed down a bit.... don't worry guys... am always around... hope that everybody is safe and sound! Al

I wonder how many people jumped on eBay after reading this post. :D

Ymca
 

another rppc...

https://luckeycards.com/rppcymca2.jpg

The Nebraska State Prison almost always had an integrated team.

Always like the NSP rppcs above.

Here are some clowns :)
https://luckeycards.com/clownspc.jpg

^ Fantastic!!

Dan B.:

Do you know the photo taken year of the second of your four Nebraska State Prison postcards? We have the same postcard in the Merkin Collection here at Hake's and would like to date it correctly, even a circa date would be great.

Thanks!

Phil, I believe that one to be circa 1930.

Campy rookie year with Monterrey PC

Awesome, thanks, Dan!

Phil

You guys have some great stuff!

These are photos but sorta on point:

A WWII Army softball team, The Brown Bombers:

https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...ers%20team.jpg

1949 snapshot of NL Legend Luke Easter with the Padres:

https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...er%20photo.jpg

Great stuff indeed
 

Hey Adam,

That snapshot is not Luke Easter, but it is of another NL legend: Artie Wilson. Cool!

Here's a post Steve Rudman and I did on Artie and Bob Boyd in 2012:

http://sportspressnw.com/2136671/201...cross-the-line

Thanks, it was ID'd on the back as Easter.

Many times our board knows more than the originators :)....

Here's one a bit OT but so what, it's neat looking (and shown before but still)>>>

https://luckeycards.com/ppcunc1909nativeindians.JPG

We should start a Native American Indian baseball thread. I have a lot I can share to that one.

Not Negro League but interesting nonetheless.

https://luckeycards.com/zulu.jpg

Actually, as terrifying as it is, this team really is directly related to the Negro Leagues. There were some real players who subjected themselves to this demeaning show of a team. In addition Pollock was the owner of the later Clowns teams which were a further evolution of this team

Not sure how I missed this thread the first time around.

Awesome postcards guys. Love all of the early teams, especially the 1911 Chicago American Giants and the 1939 Santurce Crabbers. Also, that RPPC of Bell is really special.

1931 Homestead Grays with Gibson, Charleston, Williams, Radcliffe and Posey.

1932 Pittsburgh Crawfords with Paige, Gibson, Charleston and Radcliffe.

Leon. What do you know about this piece. Very interesting to me. What does the back look like?

Indeed. I'd love to see some early Native American cards / RPPC. if not a thread, PM me...��

Kinda, sorta on point, I just got this:

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/DE4AA...JA/s-l1600.jpg

Fort Madison Iowa Prison Base ball Team
 

BIG FOUR "base ball" team of the Iowa State Penitentiary near Fort Madison

A little off the thread track but a snapshot of Gibby Meeks of the 1946 Brown Dodgers from the short-lived but important United States Baseball League.

Rob M

Attachment 421008

Wow! Just wow!