declining years card thread... show a card

FrankWakefield · #1 05-10-2009, 12:27 PM

Hey Doug, nice! I have that Maple Leaf woodcut.

And I have this one, which you also posted. Here's a bigger shot of it.

International Base-Ball The Boston Champions Harper's Weekly June 27, 1874. There were some ballplayers on that team, George Wright, Harry Wright, A G Spalding, James O'Rourke, Cal McVey, Ross Barnes... 9 1/2" x 14".

doug.goodman · #2 05-10-2009, 09:51 PM

I love these woodcuts. Thanx for the larger picture, Frank.

I don't have anymore that are scanned until 1869.

Doug

FrankWakefield · #3 05-10-2009, 10:08 PM

With apologies to anyone who has 1873, 1872, 1871, or 1870...
(please still post 'em if you have 'em)...

1869

The Picked Nine of the "Red Stocking" Base-Ball Club, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Harper's Weekly, July 3, 1869.

Sorry Doug, just had to beat you to this one. And with this one I'm done.

Dick Hurley - George Wright - Doug Allison - Cal McVey - Andy Leonard
Charlie Sweasy - Fred Waterman - Harry Wright - Asa Brainard - Charlie Gould

I'm a Cardinals fan. But I think that major league baseball pissed away part of their tradition when they abandoned Opening Day at Cincinnati. That is where the first game should be every season. Tradition can't be bought, it is a product of doing something correctly for a significant period of time. Baseball had that, and pissed it away.

triwak · #4 05-11-2009, 01:20 AM

Was waiting for someone to post a Peck and Snyder, but the above woodcut is way cool also! While maybe not a baseball image (maybe?), let's step back to 1864, shall we:

tedzan · #5 05-11-2009, 03:03 AM

Hey guys stop the time machine....we cannot bypass 1869 without displaying this neat hand-tinted woodcut of Harry Wright's "Big Bat".

[linked image]

TED Z

doug.goodman · #6 05-11-2009, 07:06 AM

Nice one, Ted. And you too, Frank.

Here's 1868, sort of, cricket anyone?

From Harpers's October 3, 1868 - it's the All-England Eleven

GaryPassamonte · #7 05-11-2009, 07:16 AM

1870.

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