Posted By:
Corey R. ShanusRob,
To respond to your point of -- "if this was not made for distribution to the general public, then who was it made for"-- answer, the individual team members. A number of 19th and early 20th century photos are believed by myself and many other collectors to have been distributed to individual team members only, despite the presence of studio advertising. The uniquenss of this item after all these years, in contrast to the relatively many number of Baltimore News cards known, seriously raises the question whether this item ever had a general public distribution. How can one reasonably discount the possibility that either prior to or after the individual photo shoot of the Baltimore players the studio/newspaper took a team shot meant for distribution to the players only?