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Posted By: Joann

Not mind-blowing, but still pretty cool. Alta Weiss was a pitcher that played semi-pro for a short while. Here she is with a barnstorming team - she was the pitcher and routinely pitched against the guys. Unsurprisingly, she was more of a pitcher than a thrower

This is from 1908, and the reverse is neat because it advertises one of the games that year. Note the female in back row center - her sister maybe? - but obviously some kind of chaperone.

I'm not sure how this was used - clearly the back printing makes it unusable as a postcard. The back looks printed, not stamped, so I'm not sure why they would have used a post card as stock.

Someday I'm going to write the definitive history of women in baseball at the turn of the century. Sounds like a nice travel-researchy way to spend retirement, doesn't it?

J