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New Find Academy of Sport Laurel Cards
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A recent pick-up a News Letter Advertizing piece 4 pages 12" by 17" with insight on the activities at the Academy of Sport. Printed in early May/June is my guess based on content.
The Academy of Sport offered the public an interesting venue to see awards and trophy's from teams and athletes from the world of sports. The Academy also offered classes in Baseball & Football with professional players and managers as instructors. Each preregistered student would received a Laurel Card for their precipitation. The Laurel Cards were signed by 76 baseball instructors, 11 Managers 65 Players, from 1939 to1940. According to Christy Walsh "the Laurel Card bears the name of a student and the name of the instructor of the day, thus providing a souvenir more valuable and personal than the ordinary autograph." In addition radio broadcasts by NBC on Saturday with Bill Stern and on Wednesday Mutual Broadcasting with Stan Lomax covered the special activities. Most interesting is a article noted as Roll Call The Academy of Sport's Honor Roll of Mangers and Players and potential Laurel Card signers. Copied from the news letter April 30, to June 26, 1939 not sure if this list actually participated as instructors of the day. Sports at the New York WORLD'S FAIR PHILADELPHIA ATHLETICS Connie Mack NEW YORK YANKEES Joe McCarthy, Joe DiMaggio, Lefty Gomez, Red Rolfe, Bump Hadley, Art Jorgens, Jake Powell, George Selkirk NEW YORK GIANTS Bill Terry, Carl Hubbell, Mel Ott, Zeke Bonura, Harry Danning, Travis Jackson CHICAGO CUBS Gabby Hartnett, Augie Galan, Stanley Hack, Glen Russell, Jim Gleeson PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES Doc Prothro, Pinky Whitney, Virgil Davis PITTSBURGH PIRATES Pie Traynor, Paul Waner, Lloyd Waner, Chuck Klein CLEVELAND IDIANDS Oscar Vitt, Bob Feller, Jeff Heath ST.LOUIS CARFINALS Ray Blades, Pepper Martin, Joe Medwick CINCINNATI REDS Bill McKechnie. Johnny Vander Meer, Bill Werber, Hank Gowdy DETROIT TIGGERS Pinky Higgins. Earl Averill, Merv Shea ST.LOUIS BROWNS Fred Haney, George McQuinn, Myril Hoag BROOKLYN DODGERS Leo Durocher, Ernie Koy, Dolph Camilli, Van Mungo, Tuck Stainback, Babe Phelps, Al Todd, Cookie Lavagetto WASHINGTON SENATORS Dutch Leonard, Ossie Bluege, George Case Check out my web site www.1939baseball.com |
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Steve:
Glad you enjoyed the piece. Chock full of info...!!! Best Phil |
Lou Gehrig was an instructor as well, but his laurel cards were signed by wife Eleanor.
Tom C |
Steve,
I hope you have been well. Thanks, that information is terrific! I told you that there was a Johnny Vander Meer Laurel Card out there. This info kind of confirms that it does in fact exist. I just have to find one of these bad boys.... ;) |
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Hi Guys , Phil Scott and Tom Thanks to Phil I was able to get this News Letter. I decided to pick at some of the articles and this is an update. After looking at up coming events I took a look at the Yankees, Giants, and Dodgers Schedules looks like Wednesdays and Saturdays fit the schedules for the Academy of Sport.
The Academy of Sport offered the public an interesting venue to see awards and trophy's from teams and athletes from the world of sports. The Academy also offered classes in Baseball & Football with professional players and managers as instructors. Each preregistered student would received a Laurel Card for their precipitation. The Laurel Cards were signed by 76 baseball instructors, 11 Managers 65 Players, from 1939 to1940. According to Christy Walsh "the Laurel Card bears the name of a student and the name of the instructor of the day, thus providing a souvenir more valuable and personal than the ordinary autograph." The schedule for the baseball clinics for 1939 were held on Wednesdays' and Saturdays' to coincide with the radio broadcasts NBC on Saturday with Bill Stern and Mutual Broadcasting on Wednesday with Stan Lomax covering the special activities. www.1939baseball.com |
A few others for whom these laurel cards exist but are not listed on either of the above lists:
Ted Lyons Fred Fitzsimmons Willard Hershberger Babe Dahlgren Billy Sullivan Jr Maybe this suggests that some of the players originally scheduled were replaced by others from the same team? Thus perhaps Johnny Vander Meer may not exist on a laurel card. Maybe he was replaced by Hershberger? Just a theory. Tom C |
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You are probably right, but , I have accounted for 62 my source is 20 plus years of auction catalogs, eBay, Card shows' to acutely see the card and add it to my list so far I Have documented, www.1939baseball.com
Check list of know Laurel Cards Cards In my collection are with asterisk * Del Baker Charlie Barry Ernest "Tiny" Bonham Lou Boudreau Dolph Camilli * Tex Carleton George Case George Caster Ben Chapman Sam Chapman * Joe Cronin * Virgil Davis Frank Demaree Paul Derringer * Bill Dickey Dom DiMaggio Joe DiMaggio Leo Durocher * Bob Feller Freddy Fitzsimmons Elbie Fletcher Jimmie Foxx Frank Frisch * Lou Gehrig Jim Gleeson Joe Gordon Hank Goudey * Hank Greenberg * Stanley Hack * Bump Hadley Gabby Hartnett Frank Hayes Rollie Hemsley Waite Hoyt Fred Hutchinson * Dave Keefe Charley Keller Chuck Klein Ernie Koy Harry "Cookie" Lavagetto Connie Mack * Gus Mancuso Joe Marty (PCL) Joe McCarthy Joe Medwick Johnny Mize Carvel Powell Pete Reiser Red Rolfe * Charlie Root Buddy Rosar "Schoolboy" Rowe Babe Ruth George Selkirk Billy Sullivan Arky Vaughn Buckey Walters * Lloyd Waner Paul Waner * Bill Werber * Burgess Whitehead |
The ones I listed above just went off for auction yesterday in a group lot of like 10-12 of them or so.
Tom C |
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That could be. Willard Hershberger was Johnny Vander Meer's Reds roommate, BTW. |
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