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Originally Posted by pariah1107
Awesome PC Leon. Don't know what type of info you are looking for but I believe Johnson played for the Weiser Senators (1906-July 1907), 84 consecutive scoreless innings pitched in 1907. He worked for the local telephone/telegraph company in Weiser, Idaho.
The subject of the PC is interesting, sounds as though these two are cattlemen, one looking for work in Wyoming. Weiser is the last town up river from Hells Canyon and was a popular Ferry point across the Weiser River, which combines with the Snake. Today, the town is known as the "Fiddling Capital of the World", and has some great sturgeon fishing.
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Thanks Ty...here is another scan of the back. The info I am interested in hearing about is why, when the dating of this has been discussed before, no one has ever mentioned the copyright date of 1907 on the front? I am not saying it was produced then but it certainly merits some thought if folks are trying to date it. If it IS 1907 it would make it one of, if not the, first Walter Johnson card. All that being said I very well might have missed someone pinpointing the date of it. This particular postcard was sent to the person's grandfather from whom I acquired it, according to them...and I have no reason to believe otherwise.
