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The Oilers pennant... ;) |
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I’ve never seen that Oilers pennant. Must be pretty rare. Nice pick up
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I love that pennant and especially since it's labeled. 99% of my pennants are not labeled. Unfortunately, I don't think it's an Oaks pennants. My quickie research shows the early Oaks used a color scheme of green and yellow (like the Modern A's) with a bit of red in their "insignias". It wasn't until the 1950s (maybe 1940s) that they went to red and blue on white unis. I could definitely be wrong on this, though... |
1910s Oakland Oaks PCL pennant??
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I appreciate your two cents!
I can't dispute anything you said. I myself am skeptical of these crossover travel/baseball pennants from the early part of the century. It is highly unusual to find sewn letter pennants like mine from that era used for anything other than collegiate, travel, or advertising purposes. Professional baseball? Not so much.... I still don't know about the Oaks' uniform colors from that era. I think their colors--much like their team name and ballpark location--changed frequently during that era. Finding a color picture of their uniform from then isn't easy either. They could have been green/yellow in 1916; then blue/white in 1917. Nothing was consistent back in those days. A few years ago a follower of this thread posted the below Oaks pennants from the same era we're talking about. It's a stunner! So good, I'm gonna re-post it in all its glory below. Note that the uniform depicted is blue/white, much like my pennant believed to be from the same era.... So, who knows for certain, right? Certainty in this hobby isn't common either, is it? |
Hardly conclusive but adding to the intrigue...This from a 2014 Ebay auction:
Rare c. 1913 felt pennant from the Oakland Oaks Baseball Team. Measures a 29 inches across and condition is VERY nice. From the collection of a 1908-1915 Minor League Baseball Player from the era and I have a couple other pennants including an Centralia pennant and a pictoral Aberdeen Washington pennant as well! There are no specific markings identifying it as baseball but most pennants of the era were like this. Considering the collection it came from I have NO doubt this was used by a baseball fan to root on the Oakland Oaks, especially since dark blue and white were the Oaks colors as well! <a href="http://imgbox.com/5uAEaBfL" target="_blank"><img src="https://images2.imgbox.com/0b/d0/5uAEaBfL_o.jpg" alt="image host"/></a> |
One other note...It's interesting that the Oakland Oaks baseball team and the Oakland Oaks basketball team used the same mascot. This guys:
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1910s Oakland Oaks PCL pennant??
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As best I can tell, the Oaks did sport a blue/white uniform by ca. 1912. There's a few different tobacco cards from that era that depict such a uniform. See below.
By the latter portion of the decade, the Oaks used a different uniform than the one below. I wondered if this one perhaps was the early green/yellow one they may have also worn? Then I found this 1918 movie footage of the Oaks and their opening day festivities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u-uQBv7H1Y Obviously, this footage has been colorized. But, however they colorize these old movies ... they made these uniforms blue/white, too. So, who knows? It's a cool movie clip either way and that first uniform is totally sweet. |
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