Casey Stengel and the 1909 Kansas City Red Sox

[bmarlowe1]

Scott posted: REA sold a cabinet of the Kansas City Bentons back in 2008. From the auction description: "(Interestingly, the players are identified in print on the reverse, but Stengel is misidentified; the sheet lists him in the middle row, though he is clearly standing in the upper left.) Stengel, who was about sixteen-years-old at the time of the photo, ..."

I think the actual i.d. on the back of the photo is correct: 2nd from left, but he would have been 18. It's kind of weird that auction houses can't even i.d. players in photos when they have the correct i.d. written on the photo


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Scott - you are right - the guy in the back row enlarged above is definitely not Stengel.

[Runscott]

Mark, thanks but what I was asking about was a comparison of the Hall of Fame's 1909 KC Red Sox photo of Stengel with the one I have of him with the same team.

SGC has had my postcard since the National, along with the documentation from this thread, and they originally told me that they wouldn't verify it unless an expert agreed with me. Oddly, they gave Messier's name as the expert whose opinion they would value, even though he's not a facial comparison expert as far as I know.

[bmarlowe1]

Originally Posted by Runscott

Mark, thanks but what I was asking about was a comparison of the Hall of Fame's 1909 KC Red Sox photo of Stengel with the one I have of him with the same team.

SGC has had my postcard since the National, along with the documentation from this thread, and they originally told me that they wouldn't verify it unless an expert agreed with me. Oddly, they gave Messier's name as the expert whose opinion they would value, even though he's not a facial comparison expert as far as I know.

Who is Messier?

Your guy is Stengel - contact me offline.