UPDATE! - Caught Off Guard - Guy offering to sell- 1917 Cin Reds w/ Christy Mathews

[ham_i_am]

A case of beer...you got it!!!!!!! And thanks to everyone for all the help and info. I told Shawn it was cool to see everyone so pumped about the same hobby and the game we all love. Happy to be a member. Thanks.

OH...And me know more than Shawn...FUNNY!!!

[smokelessjoe]

Okay, got the photo in hand the other day and was looking it over pretty close - when I noticed a name written in pencil on the back. Took me a minute, but I made out PETER SCHNEIDER... Thinking this may have been the owner of the picture - my friend Jason and I started looking online for the name. After awhile of not really finding anything - it dawned on me that Schneider was one of the names of the players that Mark had listed!!! Fourth man from the right on the back row.


Could Pete Schneider once have owned this photo?

We have tried our best to find an example of Pete Schneiders signature.??

Does anyone have an example to compare with?

I know it could have been anyone that may have written on the back, but man it sure makes it exciting...

Thank you,
Shawn

[barrysloate]

It would make sense that a player would own a display photo like this. My guess is it's his.

[smokelessjoe]

Barry,

That is my thoughts as well... I am usually fairly good at finding things online, but I cannot find a single example of Schneiders signature

Interesting note about Pete is that he was convicted of Manslaughter and imprisoned in San Quentin... 1-10 years.

Schneider’s life after baseball is not quite as successful as his playing days … moving to Los Angeles, he enters the insurance business … on May 30, 1935, he is convicted of manslaughter in the death of Gustavo Schnabel in a bar fight ... Schneider’s defense is that Schnabel had been “assertedly disrespectful” toward his wife … undeterred, Judge Charles Burnell sentences him to serve 1 to 10 years at San Quentin Prison in California.
While imprisoned at San Quentin, Schneider gains attention as the manager of the prison’s all-star baseball team … on June 1, 1957, Schneider dies in Los Angeles after a long illness at the age of 61.

[bmarlowe1]

If the signature was not legit, why choose Pete Schneider? Seems highly likely it's good.

The other copy I know of was owned by Roy Sanders.

[slidekellyslide]

It's possible that the name was written on the back by the photographer, or the person who gave him the photo.

[tiger8mush]

Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

It's possible that the name was written on the back by the photographer, or the person who gave him the photo.

True. It would be interesting to compare the two known signatures (this one and the Roy Sanders one) to see if they are similar or totally different.