1929 detroit and new york score card

[certainteed52]

This is a image of score card.

[Chris-Counts]

I always thought Babe Ruth got his number by batting third. But he's batting cleanup here.

[Shoeless Moe]

If it was their very first game with uniform numbers then it would be a Premium, but just a random scorecard/program from the 1929 season I would guess because its the Yankees and Ruth you are looking at about $200 give or take.






edited to add - my error not $100, about $200.

[certainteed52]

Do you know when the first MLB game was played with uniform numbers.

[certainteed52]

Are the first score card you have seen with uniform numbers?

[scooter729]

Those aren’t uniform numbers. Ruth wore number 3 and Gehrig #4, for starters. Koenig never wore 7. There also was no one with the high double digit and triple digit numbers shown below. And importantly, per Baseball Reference, the Tigers didn’t wear numbers on their uniforms until 1931. Those look like the numbers which correspond to the electric scoreboard tracking of the day.

[certainteed52]

No you are wrong look again at the top right new york it reads uniform no.

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by scooter729

Those aren’t uniform numbers. Ruth wore number 3 and Gehrig #4, for starters. Koenig never wore 7. There also was no one with the high double digit and triple digit numbers shown below. And importantly, per Baseball Reference, the Tigers didn’t wear numbers on their uniforms until 1931. Those look like the numbers which correspond to the electric scoreboard tracking of the day.

You are looking at the wrong column. The numbers to the right of the Yankees names are noted as uniform numbers.

[Shoeless Moe]

Originally Posted by certainteed52

Do you know when the first MLB game was played with uniform numbers.

Googled this:

In 1929, the New York Yankees were planning to start the season with uniform numbers on the back of the jersey. The Indians also planned to wear numbers in this fashion. The Yankees were rained out on opening day, April 16, while the Indians played, making Cleveland the first MLB franchise to wear numbers on the back. The Yankees debuted their numbered jerseys two days after, April 18.[3] By the mid-1930s, all MLB teams wore numbers;

[Shoeless Moe]

Here is one that went for $66 at Mears, but was in 2012:


http://www.mearsonlineauctions.com/lot-61078.aspx



so obviously they've gone up since then.

[certainteed52]

Do you think this one would be more rarer?