1915 St Louis Globe Democrat Color Sport Supplements

[doug.goodman]

I kind of feel bad bumping my own post, especially since there are only a few guys out there who care about esoteric items such as these, but here goes...

While adding the Weilman / Plank that I received from Clint into the book I store these in, I discovered some additions to the "checklist". I suppose you could say they were hiding in plain sight. The updated list is :

April 25 - Cartoon about teams taking NL pennant
(ADD) May 30 - Tommy Long (most popular ballplayers)
June 27 - Carl Weilman & Eddie Plank (popular players)
July 4 - Two Of This Season's Stars (front of section)
July 4 - Feds Team (back of section)
July 11 - Lee Meadows & Urban Faber (pitching sensations)
July 18 - Ty Cobb & Jake Daubert (batting stars)
July 25 - Larry Doyle & Lee Magee (batting stars)
Aug 1 - Bennie Kauff & Vic Saier (base stealers)
Aug 8 - Tris Speaker & George Burns (outfield)
Aug 15 - Rabbit Maranville & Eddie Collins (both sides of second sack)
Aug 22 - Ray Schalk & Frank Snyder (catchers)
Aug 29 - Altrock, Schaefer & Jennings (coaches)

Those are all from 1915 and noted as "Color Sport Supplement" with the date at the top (except the July 4 Feds Team).

There are also color pages from :
(ADD) Sept 20, 1908 - Parade of players with bats on shoulders & crowd
(ADD) Apr 9, 1909 - Cartoon entitled "Play Ball" with a King watching game w/peanuts & scorecard
(ADD) Aug 11, 1912 - Drawing of kids playing titled "A Home Run"
(ADD) June 6, 1915 - Baseball cartoon "Bert Bush's First Game"
Sept 12, 1915 - Charles Comiskey (owner)
Sept 19, 1915 - Hank O'Day (umpire)


Based on the Tommy Long addition, I'm thinking there are a bunch more of these, hopefully one each week.

Also, I think that the Color Sport Supplements themselves were a section of 4 newspaper pages, with the front and back in color and the inside black and white.

Doug


PS - Phil, I found another Faber, email me your address and I'll send it to you.