Let's see some postcards

[ValKehl]

I just picked up this graded Eastern Exhibit PC to complement the raw example with an Exhibit Supply overprint that I've had in my collection for years.

[effe]

If anyone on the board won this lot last evening in the Hunt Auction, nice pickup. If you plan on selling some of them off I am interested in the 1909 WI Badgers tour of Japan card.

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by ValKehl

I just picked up this graded Eastern Exhibit PC to complement the raw example with an Exhibit Supply overprint that I've had in my collection for years.

Big-time card of the Big Train, Val, congratulations!

[rickalaska]

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[h2oya311]

Jeez, Rick. How many of these postcards did you buy from me? Either directly or through my consignments through LOTG? Glad to see them shared here again...

I had one other team PC of the Washington POM team w/ McKechnie. That one was trimmed almost exactly the same and was also produce by Record Publishing Co. Not mine any longer, but figured I'd share since you showed the other "composite" version of the PC I once owned:



I also used to own this one...same image, different trimming:



I still think your vertically oriented composite photo is the best of the available "earliest" McKechnie postcards is the best.

[tlwise12]

Happy to have added this one recently.

[rickalaska]

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[tlwise12]

Rick,

Unfortunately, it's not that early. I wish. 1940ish Veracruz team

Originally Posted by rickalaska

Travis,

I just noticed that is a Martin Dihigo postcard - nice pickup!!!

Is that team 1923-24 Almendares?

Rick

[Bill77]

I picked up the two baseball PCs a few years ago. The three football PCs I got a about a month ago, the middle one was a local pickup.

[quitcrab]

Brooklyn

[Vintagedeputy]

New arrival today. Been missing in the mail for a few weeks. Postmarked 1910.

[rickalaska]

Kid Nichols, player/manager of the Class-D, 1908 Oshkosh Indians - back row w/white sweater. It appears, the glass plate negative was cracked when this RPPC was printed in 1908.

Kid Nichols won 362 games in the major leagues - he won 30 or more games in a season seven times.

[Vintagedeputy]

Picked up two new ones that arrived today. The “make a run for you” postcard appears to be early 1900s.

I especially like the Packy McFarland (of T218 fame) postcard teaching boxing to the Knights of Columbus.

[Bjw1978]

Any idea who the player in the dark uniform is? Looks like Walter Schmidt maybe

[Bjw1978]

Originally Posted by Bill77

I picked up the two baseball PCs a few years ago. The three football PCs I got a about a month ago, the middle one was a local pickup.

Any idea who the player in the dark uniform is? Looks like Walter Schmidt maybe

[rickalaska]

Hall of Fame postcard autographed on the front and initialed on the back by Elmer Flick (HOF) - on the backside he proudly boasts of the batting title he won in 1905, commenting that himself and Willie Keeler were the only two players that batted over .300 that year. Flick notes his batting average at .306, however, Baseball-Reference.com lists him at .308 in 1905

Signed in 1964, the 88-year old great, talks that these were the days of the "Spitter" and "Emery" ball in the hands of great pitchers like Jack Chesbro who won 41 games (1904) and Ed Walsh who won 40 games (1908)

[rickalaska]

Autographed postcard of "The King" Richard Petty from 1992. He raced from 1958 to 1992 - saying, "No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning." Richard Petty won 200 NASCAR races, including the Daytona 500 seven times - his father Lee, was the winner of the first Daytona 500 race in 1959.

[rickalaska]

Eddie Collins (HOF) entered Columbia University in 1903. Although just 5 foot 9 inches, he was quarterback and captain of the school football team, and the starting shortstop on the University baseball team for three years.

I would guess this is a class team photo. I did notice, a couple players also appear to be in a 1905 varsity team photo with Collins.

Although still in school, Eddie Collins joined a semi-pro team in the summer of 1906, playing under the name "Eddie Sullivan". The practice was not unusual among college players and he probably would have gotten away with it if his playing hadn't attracted the attention of the Philadelphia Athletics. They signed him to a contract and he actually got into six games before returning to Columbia for his senior year.

Once his professional playing was discovered, Collins was declared ineligible for his senior season. He was allowed to stay on as a coach while he completed his degree.