@1921 Lefty Grove Photo

[leftygrove10]

Sorry. I did not see this thread earlier. The seller was originally trying to sell this photo saying that it was a Baltimore Orioles uniform. I emailed him and told him that I didn't think it was an Orioles uniform. For one, the Orioles uniform has the Oriole bird on the cap.

I offered my opinion that this photo was actually a Philadelphia Athletics uniform likely from 1925.

He is now saying that it is a Martinsburg Mountaineers uniform. Lefty played for Martinsburg in 6 games in 1920. He was then sold/traded to the Orioles. I have not seen a Martinsburg Mountaineers uniform from 1920. I have seen other Martinsburg uniforms that have an M on them, but they were not from 1920.

I stand by my original opinion that this is a 1925 Philadelphia Athletics uniform. I will post some pictures below to let you make up your own mind.

[leftygrove10]

The first photo below is the photo of Lefty from eBay.

The second photo is a picture of Connie Mack and his son Earle from 1925. This shows a Philadelphia Athletics uniform from 1925 along with a sweater/jacket that appears to be the same as what Lefty is wearing in the eBay photo.

You can find this picture at the link below, which indicates that this picture was taken in 1925.

http://www.three-eye.com/galChiDailyNews.html

The third photo is a picture of Lefty that I believe was taken in 1925.

[leftygrove10]

Here is a picture of Lefty in a Philadelphia Athletics uniform with the elephant logo. If the eBay photo is from 1925, then that uniform should be very similar to this one.

[Dto7]

1920 Martinsburg Mountaineers

[RCMcKenzie]

Rhys,

I'm looking forward to the inaugural RMY. Will be bidding on the 19th century stuff.

On this photo, I was wondering if you could post an enlarged scan of the cap. It's very hard to see from the scan. The cap does not look like the ones in the Martinsburg photo. It looks like there is a line like in the Philly pics that Brad posted.

[Texxxx]

The cap looks more like the Philly cap but the socks are wrong.

[leftygrove10]

Originally Posted by Texxxx

The cap looks more like the Philly cap but the socks are wrong.

The fact that Lefty has different socks in the one picture above doesn't bother me. Here is another picture of Lefty in the Athletics elephant uniform with more similar socks to the eBay picture. While you can't see the elephant logo in this picture, you will see that the hat is the same as the picture above.