Can we see some Negro League items?

[jerseygary]

I designed and illustrated the fake prop scorecards for a movie about the Negro Leagues that was never made due to funding falling through and assorted Hollywood intrique... I did all 6 Negro National League teams as well as the Monarchs and a few other semi-pro and travelling teams. I tried to make these as real as possible, right down to the ads on the inside. Each one is 8 pages long with the actual lineups as they would have been in 1945. The graphics are not from the actual scorecards because the originals were actually much more primitive or were just borrowed from other teams and were not team specific. Needless to say because the movie was never made, I got stuck with a bunch of these and they are sitting in my attic.


www.cieradkowskidesign.com

[Ladder7]

Those props look terrific. Nice work Gary.

c1912

[Jason19th]

Here are a couple of items from the beginnings of black baseball to the end of the negro leagues. The first is a print from 1873 of the Hampton University baseball team- this is the earliest realistic portrayal of blacks playing baseball that i have ever come across. The next two items are Indianapolis Clowns items. Few people realize that the Clowns actually continued to play into the 1970's. the press release is circa 1965 and the scorecard appears to bear the notes of the team owner Ed Hamman

[baseballart]

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and, most puzzling, a signed page from A.S. Young's Great Negro Stars, inexplicably including Ray Burris and ... Bob Lemon

This is all I have to add.

[ramram]

Does anybody else get that same feeling that there might be an "attic find" in about 50 years if Jerseygary moves out of his house and leaves those scorecards behind! They'll be showing up all over with people claiming they're vintage scorecards.

Rob M.

[jerseygary]

Good point, however, each one is discretely marked with my website somewhere on it, plus all the ads are for fictitious products and I always slipped in an ad for Cooperstown Ballcap Company which my friend Will owns and the logo has a zip code in it. That said, they still look real convincing and like they are from 1945.