1859 college baseball-plain dress

[Leon]

Originally Posted by GaryPassamonte

Although it is nice to have the images signed, I'm not sure great value is added. If the players were well known it would be a different story. Interesting item.
Please post additional pictures if possible.

Original poster sent one more in another email after the first batch. Since you asked, here ya go, Gary. I hope some other 19th century guys will chime in too...LL

[Collector46227]

Additionally, there are the fifty and sixty year published reports that establishes each of these players as participating in the game and also individually assigns each one of the students with the accomplishments achieved during college and the years that followed.

This individual accomplishment specifically documents the attendance in this game.

[oldjudge]

Interesting item; I would be interested. Please keep us informed about how you decide to market it.

Thanks--Jay

[Michael B]

Those look like albumens glued to a thicker mat board or paper. This was common for some of the early college yearbooks. The frameline is printed on the backing and the photo glued to the inside. I have seen these for West Point, Yale, Princeton and a few other schools.

[bmarlowe1]

This was the game - sharing billing with chess. If I understand it right, the book above says the names of the players were not recorded- but here they are in the box score. I see Blagden and Parker depicted above listed in the box score below, but the others depicted above apparently did not play in that game..

[GaryPassamonte]

Mark- I believe all five played in the second game on 7/2.

[Collector46227]

When I spoke with Williams, they claimed that the "yearbook" did not have any images and that the students would hire photo albums privately and individually. This album which these salt photos were taken out of belonged to Francis Snow, he later became one of the original three faculty members of the University of Kansas and served as Chancellor there for many years.