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Originally Posted by Anthony S.
Leon,
Do you have any idea what year that (very cool) card was produced?
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I'm obviously not Leon, but it would have been between 1909 and 1919.
From The Baseball Biography Project . . .
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"I made the biggest mistake when I quit professional baseball in 1909 to enter business for myself." In any case, Sutthoff returned to Cincinnati and operated a saloon bearing his name at the intersection of St. Lawrence, Enright and Warsaw avenues -- on Price Hill, one of the Queen City's first outlying settlements.[14] Jack and Nellie Sutthoff's large family -- as well as Nellie's brother Jim Crowe, a railroad worker -- lived above the establishment. "Dad was an easy touch for credit," his son recalled. So many patrons were in his debt that he accepted goods when he couldn't get cash, including cameras, dumbbells and encyclopedias. In January 1920, as Sutthoff prepared to close his saloon in compliance with the arrival of Prohibition, he gave away what remained of his inventory of whiskey.
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