Share Your Baseball Ostraca

[brianp-beme]

Like I assume many of us Net54 folk, I had to look up ostraca and potsherd.

Here is my interpretative ostracadance performance using the medium of words. Hobby pioneer Buck Barker used the backs of vintage baseball cards to record biographical career data of the player pictured on the front, providing identifications that we are still utilizing within the hobby today.

Here is a 1925 Zeenut of a player identifed on the front by the last name of Haughy that Buck, while searching the archives of the Sporting News (in St. Louis I believe), could not pin down the player's identity, despite all his brainstorming efforts at searching last name alternatives. He would have done this research at the Sporting News probably sometime in the later 1970's or in the 1980's, because he also identified the name of the collector he received the card from (Weiss) and the year he obtained it from him (1975).


Brian