November Pickups

[jimivintage]

Congrats on the t205 adventure, and best of luck on the last card find! I'm very jealous!

[CobbSpikedMe]

This beauty just showed up Monday. It was nice to come home after work and find it on the table. I've wanted one of these for a long time.

Thanks,

AndyH


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[pcoz]

Just got this, thanks Jeff! This is the only one known of its kind, and 1 of 4 different Real Photo PC's in this C.1915 set.

[Hot Springs Bathers]

Pete- I just sent you an extensive PM with some history on your great Ruth PC, photo taken at Majestic Field in Hot Springs, AR. With the current PM problems let me know if you did not get it and I will try a different method.

[btkpath]

Pete, that is an amazing PC of Ruth!!!

[Bicem]

Originally Posted by Hot Springs Bathers

Pete- I just sent you an extensive PM with some history on your great Ruth PC, photo taken at Majestic Field in Hot Springs, AR. With the current PM problems let me know if you did not get it and I will try a different method.

can I get a copy of that too? Sounds very interesting.

[Jlighter]

Originally Posted by Bicem

can I get a copy of that too? Sounds very interesting.

+1

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Hot Springs Bathers

Pete- I just sent you an extensive PM with some history on your great Ruth PC, photo taken at Majestic Field in Hot Springs, AR. With the current PM problems let me know if you did not get it and I will try a different method.

There shouldn't be anymore PM problems as of now. Thanks for helping. And a few more new pickups.

[Hot Springs Bathers]

Oh heck why not. As many of you know I am SABR geek so seeing something like this is great fun!

The photo PC is a shot of Babe at Majestic Field in Hot Springs, AR and is thought to be from Spring Training in 1915 or 1916. Majestic Field was located at the site of the current Boys & Girls Club and a baseball field sits on the very same site though for 50 years a swimming pool was at that location.

Majestic Field was created in 1909 following an argument between the Red Sox, Pirates, Dodgers and Phillies over the use of Whittington Park Field or Ban Johnson Field which was located near the downtown area at the north end of the trolley line. The Red Sox who stayed at the Majestic Hotel built their new field at the south end of the trolley line and named it for their hotel.

Part of each team's agreement with the city was free transportation on the trolley system.

A decade or so back this series of PCs turned up in a auction, perhaps on eBay? A reproduction of the set made it to our local Advertising & Promotions Commission which has done a wonderful job of promoting the birth of Spring Training here in 1886. Each year they issue a set of postcards with images of our history, there have been a dozen or so Bill Clintons and about 6 or 7 Babe Ruth and Honus Wagner issues. The PC Pete has which is amazing was one of the images reproduced years ago along with the others in the set.

This past March we launched the Hot Springs Historic Baseball Trail, a series of 27 large cast plaques honoring specific sites around town where significant baseball events occuered from 1886 to 1952. Some of the sites in incude each of the five fields used and such events as Ruth's 565 foot homerun on St. Patrick's Day 1918. Through a barn storming tour with Campanella and Robinson in 1952. By the way Ruth historian Bill Jenkinson sites the 1918 Ruth homer as the true turning point in Red Sox leaderships decision to let him play full-time. One of my favorites is the plaque at the site of the high school gymnasium where Wagner taught the school team how to play basketball. Walter Johnson was reported in the local paper to have joined in after enjoying a morning of hot baths.

During the event in March the A&P hosted a luncheon to honor the SABR members from all over that helped put the project together including Jenkinson from Philadelphia, Tim Reid from Florida and Don Duren of Dallas. Each member was given a framed set of copies of the PC set that Pete's card is from.

I do want to stress that the copies of the PCs were more black & white than sepia and were much larger. Sorry for my rambling, hope some of you got some fun out of it.

[pitchernut]

kind of hard to follow the previous post but.. the 202 is new.

[glchen]

Originally Posted by pcoz

Just got this, thanks Jeff! This is the only one known of its kind, and 1 of 4 different Real Photo PC's in this C.1915 set.

Holy cow! That is a great postcard! Are there images available of the others in the set?

[Mikehealer]

Outstanding Ruth, Pete.

[pcoz]

Mike, thanks for all the info. I really appreciate it!! Here are 2 of the other images. The last image I will post when I get it in my hands. It has Ruth in a black sweater, sitting on the bench with a couple of players.

[Jason Carota]

[Hot Springs Bathers]

Pete those postcards are amazing! The copies made here look like they are new and can not be confused for the real things. Just wanted to make that clear for everybody.