A Great Rhode Island Celluloid - Not Quite a Pin But Close
 

Posted By: <b>Greg Theberge</b><p>Had to show you guys this neat pickup. I actually haven't seen it yet as my dad just picked it up today. We got it up from a collector friend of ours.<br /><br />As you guys know, we collect RI brewery advertising.<br /><br />Talk about skipping a heartbeat when you come across something that combines your two loves, beer and baseball.<br /><br />Here's a very unusual scorekeeper from 1910. On one side, an markable scorekeeper with an awesome Narragansett advertisement. On the reverse, a 1910 schedule for the Providence Grays. <br /><br />Of course, I'm ASSUMING this is for the Grays, I'm not 100% sure.<br /><br />I have a 1911 "Facts for Fans" booklet which gives their 1911 schedule. A review of the 1910 statistics in this booklet reveals that the Grays finished dead last in their division in 1910.<br /><br />Does anyone know where I can go to find a record of the 1910 season for the Grays so I can see if I have a match? <br /><br />As most know, four years after this scorekeeper was made, some kid named Ruth (who was signed with the Red Sox at the time) would play a season for the Grays helping them win the title. I heard he went on to a pretty good career.<br /><br /><img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14><br /><br />Greg<br /><br />Here she is...<br /><img src="http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z192/HiNeighbor_2007/Scan10015.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z192/HiNeighbor_2007/Scan10012.jpg"><br />

A Great Rhode Island Celluloid - Not Quite a Pin But Close
 

Posted By: <b>Dan Bretta</b><p>Sweet item Greg...there can be no doubt that is for the Grays. And yep they finished last.<br /><br /><img src="http://memory.loc.gov/service/gc/spalding/00156/00360v.jpg">

A Great Rhode Island Celluloid - Not Quite a Pin But Close
 

Posted By: <b>Greg Theberge</b><p>Thanks Dan,<br /><br />Good to see old Jimmy Collins again. Looks like they used his 1903 Red Sox photo for that collage. Great stuff.<br /><br />By the way, does anyone know what the "official" relationship was between the Grays and the Sox during this time? I know they shipped the Babe down for his first season with the Sox after playing in only a game. To the best of my knowledge (I could certainly be wrong), the Grays weren't part of the Red Sox organization.<br /><br />Thanks,<br />Greg<br /><br />By the way, is it me, or does this kid, Rock, (Kid Rock?) No. 3 look a lot like Jacoby Ellsbury?<br /><br /><img src="http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z192/HiNeighbor_2007/1192459570.jpg">

A Great Rhode Island Celluloid - Not Quite a Pin But Close
 

Posted By: <b>Dan Bretta</b><p>There was no official relationship between the clubs...players were bought and sold and minor league clubs were not "owned" by major league clubs or affiliated with them.

A Great Rhode Island Celluloid - Not Quite a Pin But Close
 

Posted By: <b>Dan Bretta</b><p>Hey, that's pretty eerie...looks like they could be related. I wonder if Rock was a Native American Indian?