Jeff: Thanks for the Yencer Weidensaul postcard. Got here a couple of days ago. Who, you might ask, the heck was Yencer Weidensaul? He had a middling minor league career of about a decade's duration; he looks more like a bookkeeper than a rugged deadballer. Yencer (or Yancer or Yenser or Yentzer or Genser or whatever else) was a college teammate of Christy Mathewson. According to the appended death notice he was also Matty's cousin. I have a 1902 Bucknell yearbook and his name kept popping up: captain of the baseball team, business manager of the school paper, Sigma Chi frat boy. In my fantasy world where I've cobbled together cardboard and memories of a visit to Lewisburg following a National in Baltimore some years back this postcard fits in perfectly.
1907 Toronto Maple Leafs
If I'm not mistaken YW is front-row, second from left
Matty's "view" from his gravesite
A notice of YW's death in a Bucknell newsletter in 1950
Bonus scan. You could win a bar bet asking what was Matty's major in college. It was forestry.
