1943 US Treasury Card- Dodgers

[Leon]

1943 US Treasury Card- Dodgers

Has anyone on the board seen one of these before and/or have any information they can share (more than what is on the card itself )? Thanks much...

[Jacklitsch]

Don't know anything more about it but that is really nice and my birth year to boot!

[Exhibitman]

Never seen it before but that is a really cool item, congrats on the pickup. Did you get SGC to holder it or did it come that way?

[toppcat]

Leon-that is a nice item! I imagine the Dodgers sold war bonds at the park and you got a card when you bought some. Just an educated guess. Dodgers, Yankees and Giants also played a three team tripleheader to encourage war bond purchases the following year from which some memorabilia exists.

[barrysloate]

There is a well known three way game played among the Dodgers, Giants, and Yankees as a benefit for war bonds (one team was always in the dugout while the other two played). I think the three way game took place in 1943. If so, there could be a connection between it and that card.

[packs]

I found the information you were looking for Leon. There is a book called "Baseball Goes To War" and in it the author mentioned the 1943 Brooklyn Dodgers War Bond Campaign. He says that in April of 1943, Branch Rickey agreed to attend a Sunday Game and break his commitment to the Sabbath. The reason he did it was to attend a US Treasury Department Ceremony honoring the Dodger's Spring Time Offensive. Apparently the Brooklyn players would walk into the stands and sell bonds to anyone attending the games that Spring. According to the book, the Dodgers alone raised $180,000. The card you have must have been one of the ones the players had given out to fans during the games in April and was just never filled out.

See if this link works, third paragraph: http://books.google.com/books?id=xri...20bond&f=false

[Leon]

My sincere apologies. It is not my card. I posted this for a lurker that asked me about it. I rarely post others' cards but this one was just to help a fellow collector. Thanks for all of the info on his behalf. (He is a Dodgers collector)..And a special thanks to Packs for the extra info..regards

[uffda51]

Nice piece of history.

[toppcat]

Really great card - looks like a spring training shot. Where was ST that year, upstate NY; I seem to recall Bear Mountain, got to look that up.

[ibuysportsephemera]

Sorry that the pictures aren't great...I was too lazy to take out my camera and instead used my cell phone. Autographed by Durocher and Stanky.

[toppcat]

Boy, nothing says "New York Baseball" better than a Willard Mullin cartoon!