Originally Posted by bbpostcards
Here's a 1908 scorecard with Harry Wright and other notables on the cover celebrating the 1878 Boston Red Stockings on the 30th anniversary of their National League championship.
The event involved more than 50 people who had played for either the 1878 Boston Red Stockings team (inc. A.G. Spaulding, George Wright, Jim O'Rourke, and Tommy McCarthy) or the Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Amherst, Lowell, or MIT teams of that era (inc. Tyng, the first player to wear a catcher's mask, and Thayer, inventor of the catcher's mask).
The "Professionals" beat the "Amateurs" 7-5. They played by the 1870's and 1880's rules. These and other details are in the 9/25/1908 New York Times.
Appearing for the Professionals were Spaulding, O'Rourke, Murnane, Morrill, Schaefer, Wood, Barrows, Hawes, Manning, Nash, McCarthy, and Bond.
For the Amateurs were Hooper, Flagg, Kent, Hodges, Thayer, Nunn, Latham , Howe, Winslow (all of Harvard in the 1860's, 1870's, or 1880's), and Elder, Bigelow, and Badger (all of Yale in the 1870's).
The interior lists the players who participated, many of whom did not play in the contest such as George Wright and Jim Tyng. The back cover contains the old rules governing the contest. The game occurred at Harvard Stadium.
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