Des Moines team cabinet

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Posted By: ramram

Thought I'd share an interesting recent Ebay pick up.

Below is a clearer scan than you may have seen on the Ebay auction. Many of the faces may be familiar from their representatives in the Old Judge set but I'm not quite sure yet as to who is who. The players are superimposed in front of a game-in-progress shot from their ballpark, "Athletic Park". As you can tell, the photographer has washed the player's legs out below the knees to make them appear to be standing in the grass. This image dovetails with the recent cabinet card of the 1888 Des Moines team from the REA auction (second image below) and Trevor's massive imperial cabinet of this same image (third image below) [Trevor - I hope you don't mind me showing this]. All three images have the same game-in-progress shot within them.

I believe my image may be from the 1887 season as that is Des Moines first team. In the REA image you can see that the Photographer is LaRoche - "Successors to Boyd". The image I have is by Boyd which obviously places it before LaRoche's 1888 image.