Jewish 19th Century major leaguers

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Posted By: Alan

I would like to determine the earliest image appearance (if anything exists) on a baseball collectible for every 19th century Jewish major leaguer (including appearances as part of a team item) listed below. I am including cabinet cards, CDV's, trade cards, postcards, catalogued newspaper supplements, pinbacks, team issues, catalogued woodcuts (NY Clipper, Harper's Weekly), catalogued stamps, etc,...

I would appreciate any info as to the earliest image for each of these individuals. If any scans are available, that would be great, but just identifying the items would be good too.

Jewish 19th century players:

Nathan Berkenstock
Leo Fishel
Jake Goodman
Jacob Pike
Lipman Pike
Ike Samuels


Thanks.
Alan

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Posted By: barrysloate

The only one I know is Lipman Pike, who appears on an 1873 CdV of the Baltimore club. One of our regular posters has a large composite of the team which is made up of about eleven individual photos, among them Pike and Candy Cummings.

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Posted By: Jay

Alan--Rube Levy who appears in the Old Judge and the SF Hess sets was Jewish.

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Posted By: leon

was on a scarce early issue too.....He had to be Jewish as his name was MORTon..

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Posted By: Mark

Alan -

Berkenstock, Fishel, and Goodman all appear in the Jewish Major Leaguers card set issued in 2003 - I don't know the dates of the photos.

Lip Pike appears as a member of the 1871 Troy Unions in "The Great Encyclopedia of 19th C Major League Baseball"-p66

Jacob Pike with the 1875 Lowells (Mass.) in the 7/13/1902 Boston Globe (p35)

BTW - these are from the SABR online Encyclopedia - a reason to join. The modest fee helps to support this.

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Posted By: Brian

Can someone post a scan of an Old Judge Rube Levy? Have seen the SF Hess card, but have never seen the OJ.
Thanks,
Brian

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Posted By: Alan

Thanks guys. I appreciate the info.