I'll second what everyone else is saying - that Ruth Red Sox photo is great. I used to collect Ruth items back when I had $$, and two of my favorite items were a Burke photo and a silver gel 'snapshot' from a barnstorming tour. All gone...
On a more positive note, I picked up a huge (small) black baseball related item last week - a 1909 ticket book, including 7 tickets, for Niesen's Gunther Park in Chicago. Among the games played there that year: series between the Leland Giants and the Cubans, 1-0 game where Rube Foster beat Ed Reulbach and the Chicago Cubs, games between Leland's Giants and the Guenther team, and also games between the Guenthers and the Cubans. There might have been other famous black teams that also played there that year - I haven't completed my research. The Kansas City Giants played the Cubans in Chicago that year, in several parks, but I can't verify that they played at Guenther Park.
Still looking for RPPCs of either the 1911 Chicago Giants or 1911 Kansas City, KS, Giants.
|