Photo of Mathewson: origin

[baseballart]

I posted on the other forum about Mack's 1908 book How to Play Baseball (the post encouraged the usual dialogue between Barry and me)

The book has a number of unique photos (unique to me, at least). This one of Mathewson I hadn't seen before, and it doesn't seem (again, to me) to look a whole lot like him. Perhaps it's just the cheap type 4 pulpy newsprint...

Max

[Leon]

It doesn't look like him to me either. I am not sure what his brother looked like but could it be him instead?

[barrysloate]

Funny, but it looks like Matty to me, although I agree not the best photo of him. He's wearing a World's Champion uniform so picture is ca. 1905.

[Jacklitsch]

Here's Henry in 1905-06. Hard to tell whether he's wearing his "World Champions" Jersey. I do know that Christy appears in the World Champions set (Ullman) wearing a "N.Y." Jersey while some of the others appear with the World Champions jersey.




Compare:

[Leon]

Thanks Steve....

To me the original photo in question looks more like Henry than Matty...but I am probably incorrect.

[Jacklitsch]

I think too if you compare glove styles that the Henry glove looks spot on to the one in Max's book.

[bmarlowe1]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

Funny, but it looks like Matty to me, although I agree not the best photo of him. He's wearing a World's Champion uniform so picture is ca. 1905.

They Giants wore those during the 1906 season -that was their standard uniform I believe.

[barrysloate]

Thanks Mark. I assumed they were issued after the Series.

[Jacklitsch]

Henry played in two games in 1906 pitching a total of 7 innings. He pitched one inning in 1907 and was gone. Hard to figure how he got in the 1906 Ullman set when the likes of Roger Bresnahan is not.

[baseballart]

Originally Posted by bmarlowe1

They Giants wore those during the 1906 season -that was their standard uniform I believe.

So Mark, is it Matty, or have I just been playing checkers too long?

Max

[Jacklitsch]

1906 uniforms:

[bmarlowe1]

I think it's Matty - but it would be easier to tell (maybe) if you could get a more paralllel scan. But, I understand that doing that can be stressful to the bindings of old books.

[FCASSOC]

Has anyone seen the jersey that Christy Mathewson wore with the "Worlds Champions" emblazoned on the front?