Bloomer girls and Smokey Joe Wood postcard

[slidekellyslide]

Deja vu! This subject comes up every two years like clockwork.

[packs]

Leon can you respond to the posts that have pointed out that Joe Wood played for the Western Bloomer team and not the Boston Bloomer team and the fact that your postcard is of the Boston Bloomer team? How do you explain the discrepency if you are saying that is Joe Wood on the Boston team?

Also, as I pointed out your postcard was produced after March of 1907 and not before. Joe Wood played for the Western Bloomer team in 1906. It could not possibly be him.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by packs

Leon can you respond to the posts that have pointed out that Joe Wood played for the Western Bloomer team and not the Boston Bloomer team and the fact that your postcard is of the Boston Bloomer team? How do you explain the discrepency if you are saying that is Joe Wood on the Boston team?

Also, as I pointed out your postcard was produced after March of 1907 and not before. Joe Wood played for the Western Bloomer team in 1906. It could not possibly be him.

ok, thanks guys. I have read enough that I don't think it's him now. It still looks like him to me but like I always say, if everyone else is wrong, you (which is me this time) need to look in the mirror. Much appreciated. Maybe in 2 more years the subject will come up again!!

[Runscott]

I'm sure someone's posted this before, but here's something I just stumbled across - not odd to hear an auction house make wishful claims, but according to them, a descendant of Wood's even claims that Joe Wood is in this photo, even though it's the wrong team altogether:

Western Bloomers - Joe Wood

[ksfarmboy]

Scott, the one I thought they said was Wood was the guy on the far right. That postcard was in another memorabilia book where that claim was made.

[Bridwell]

I have the Addie Joss biography by Longert. Its pretty thorough and doesn't have any mention of the Bloomer Girls in it. It seems unlikely he would be in the photo after becoming a major leaguer in 1902.

Congrats on the homer, though!

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by ksfarmboy

Scott, the one I thought they said was Wood was the guy on the far right. That postcard was in another memorabilia book where that claim was made.

Yes...I think it's in Stephen Wong's book "Smithsonian Baseball". My copy is packed away somewhere and I'm not ambitious enough to dig.