Al: What an utterly fabulous piece! It would make a great companion to the Boston Old Timers photo I bought a few years ago but unfortunately I think I will hang on to my right nut and kidneys instead. A year or so back I picked up a scrapbook of newspaper clippings that promoted the game. I just went through it to see if there were anything in there that might shed light on the Lew Stick thing but found nada. There was one article which included a letter from Criger to Howard Reynolds, the Boston Post sportswriter who was instrumental in organizing the charity game, in which he wrote: "There is one favor I'd like to ask, if it wouldn't be asking too much. I'd like to have the players of both teams autograph a couple of baseballs for me so that I may feel that I had at least some little part in their thoughts of that day which I'd give all of what little I have left in life to be there and participate in." Looks like the players went him one further and made up the splendid autographed poster. The scrapbook is in pretty delicate condition but I'll see if I can scan the page. I saw on your LOTG blog that you lacked info about Ed Cunningham and Joe Conway. I found Cunningham on Baseball-Fever.com without too much difficulty. He was a Boston sportswriter and was secretary of the Braves at the time of the Old Timers game. There was a Captain Joseph F. Conway who was part of a group who tried to buy the Red Sox from Harry Frazee in 1920. He looked to have been a player in the Boston financial scene. There were a couple of newspaper references via Google and then the trail went cold. May be your guy, maybe not.
