Sold: Harry Wright 1885 Scorecard Filled Out & Initialed PSA

[rschisler]

Get this one of the "Father of Baseball" and the architect behind the first professional baseball team, the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1953. Original 6.5 x 4 scorecard for a 19th-century baseball game between Philadelphia Quakers who Wright managed, and the Newark Domestics on April 24, 1885. It is filled out on both sides in pencil entirely in the hand of manager Harry Wright, who signs his initials, “H. W.,” in the scorer’s box at the bottom. In very nice condition. Encapsulated in a PSA/DNA authentication holder. Sold

[rschisler]

Sold, thank you!

[doug.goodman]

Just an FYI - the 1885 Richmond Virginians are the other team, not Newark.

As many of you are no doubt aware, when Wright's scorebooks were destroyed we were all left with individual pages with half of the scorecard from one game, and half of the scorecard from another game.

I could be wrong, but I believe that the page initialed by Wright is actually from a game his Quakers played in Richmond prior to the Game against Newark on April 24.

I am not an expert on 19th century teams, but what I'm finding on the interwebs with bad reception on a Delta flight, leads me to think these were both preseason games.

No disrespect intended Ryan, you didn't destroy them, but if I ever win big in the lotto (and I don't buy tickets, making for impossibly slim odds) I will attempt to reconstruct the Wright scorebooks.

Doug