There were some great team PCs in that auction--I stupidly failed to place my bids on a couple of them, although I would have lost on the Edmonton Eskimos anyway.
That Weed PC is neat. I wondered why they had a guy from Chico in the photo, whose white uniform sticks out. I saw that he (Cotton Brooks) had beaten Weed on September 15, 1912 while pitching for Chico. Apparently teams could draft players from other teams for tournaments or playoffs.
Cool stuff from Hakes, as usual.
__________________
Now watch what you say, or they'll be calling you a radical, a liberal, oh, fanatical, criminal
Won't you sign up your name? We'd like to feel you're acceptable, respectable, presentable, a vegetable
If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.- Ulysses S. Grant, 18th US President.
|