A, AA, AAA and other minor Leagues.....it's all FUN!!

[Leon]

We haven't had a good ole "show me" thread lately so here is one. ..This is a series that seems to be more scarce than I would have thought. As a matter of fact I have seen exactly 1 of these for sale. I am sure there are more out there but I have never seen any. Show a minor league card or two..

[Jacklitsch]

[Chris-Counts]

Here's a card produced by Knowles Service Station in 1952. I don't anything about these except the players depicted are from the Stockton Ports ...

[D. Bergin]

Not Pre-War but kind of cool.

1951 Hartford Chiefs. Team Issue I imagine. I've never seen any other examples, other then the grouping I have.

[square5000]

I have a few Obaks. I love the crazy backgrounds. Maggert looks like he's playing in a fire, and I don't know where Metzger's playing.

[uffda51]

[tlwise12]

Here's one of my favorites...

[sealmark2]

Chris: Your Mann card is one of many produced by Globe Printing Co in San Jose, CA. They produced several minor league sets. Look under Globe Printing in the SCD and it will show a list of sets they produced. Many are very hard to find such as Jamestownm Miami Beach, Ft. Worth etc while Soo City seem to be available from time to time. Apparently their shop flooded and destroyed a lot of their products thus a factor in their scarcity I assume.

Mark K. Bowers
mkbow2@surewest.net

[Abravefan11]

Not really minor league but...

[dstudeba]

[tedzan]

TED Z

[DixieBaseball]

Leon - Here are a few Texas Leaguers for you...

[slidekellyslide]

1953-54 Weaver's Wafers


And it looks like Hartford and Lincoln used the same jerseys

[Beatles Guy]

[Leon]

We could almost have his own thread....one of less than a handful of Type 2 Weavers and the only orange one known...

[Anthony S.]

Buck's downfall

[GaryPassamonte]

One of the earliest.

[Anthony S.]

Wow.

[Kawika]

Show a minor league card or two. Or six.

[bcbgcbrcb]

Here's my contribution to this thread.................

[celoknob]

I'm all about the minors !

Especially the obscure stories that go with it. Here is a quote from the 1911 Asheville Gazette:

"“Sharp, that erstwhile Eastern Carolina Leaguer, whose smiling face appears on “Old Mill” cigarette pictures, sapped all the ginger from the Knoxville ball tossers at Riverside Park yesterday afternoon when in the eighth inning, with Landgraff on second and the score tied, he smashed the pill over the left field fence for a home run.”

Here is that smiling face on the Old Mill card when he played for Goldsboro:
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[rhettyeakley]

Here are a few you don't see everyday...

1906 Memphis oversized PC:


1913 Oakland Oaks Issue (thought to have been produced by the Cardinet Candy Co. who would produce the Texas Tommy cards the next year--they were a California company)...


1921 Frederick Fotos, amongst others is Hick Cady with the Joplin, MO team (don't remember ever seeing another card of a Joplin player in any set...ever!)

[4815162342]

[Tim Kindler]

Post card of the Fort Wayne Shamrocks of the Central League

Included in the picture are Major Leaguers Cy Alberts and George"Rabbit" Nill.
There is a W600 of Nill up in the latest Mile High Auction.

[Leon]

and the last one I will post...one of my 200 favorites...

[Mikehealer]

One of my favorites.

[rdixon1208]

[tlwise12]

The last one I will post...

[chaddurbin]

Originally Posted by Jacklitsch

hey there's zach!

[DixieBaseball]

Minor League PC with a handful of Major Leaguers : Bay, Bernhard, Daubert, and Perdue...

[cfc1909]

I really dig the Foster David


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[E93]

Gary,
WOW!
JimB

Originally Posted by GaryPassamonte

One of the earliest.

[tedzan]

TED Z

[tedzan]

Since there was no World Series in 1904....here are the AAA Champions.






TED Z

[Exhibitman]

[bcbgcbrcb]

Very nice Averill Exhibit, that's a really tough one.

[tedzan]

TED Z

[D. Broughman]

T 206 Southern League

[teetwoohsix]

Originally Posted by tedzan

Since there was no World Series in 1904....here are the AAA Champions.






TED Z

Wow !!! That is sweet TedZ !!

Sincerely, Clayton

[GoldenAge50s]

Neat thread idea! Alot of cards I've never seen before! Thanks to all who posted some great images.

[tedzan]

Thanks Clayton

I acquired that 1904 Buffalo Bisons team in Cooperstown back in 1994. Believe it or not....it was a walk-in at the annual HOF weekend show.

I traded T206's for it.


Regards,

TED Z

[cfc1909]

edit-210/211 to match foster

[brianp-beme]

Talk about MINOR leagues...the guys pictured in the set were Vancouver city champions in 1921 and 1922. Not an issue you see often.

Brian

[tlwise12]

Brian,

That's a very nice card! I've been looking for one of those for a long time and to no avail...

Travis

[triwak]

a couple:

[tedzan]

TED Z

[Exhibitman]

Can't have a minor league thread w/o a Lefty O'Doul Zeenut:

[Jason Carota]

My favorite SL card:

[tedzan]

A Notre Dame graduate, Frank played in only nine Major League games, yet he had very successful careers in Baseball, Football and Hockey.





TED Z

[Kawika]

Shag was a strapping young man as can be seen in this 1908 Reading Pretzels team picture.