Show your WOODcuts!

[bigfanNY]

Going to post a few more and repost the Baseball Match at Elysian Fields Hoboken, It was published October 15th 1859 pages 664-665 in Harpers weekly. It is the oldest baseball item I own. Also a great woodcut of Ewing sliding Flint catching. The artist did his homework trying his best to get the uniform colors correct. The Boston as discussed earlier was reissued later and I believe that it was water-colored as opposed to drawn striking image. And the uncolored version of the Atlantic's of Brooklyn and the Athletics's of Phila. A game of Baseball in Thirteenth regiment armory. And the new home of the NY Metropolitan's on Staten Island.
J

[Joe Hunter]

Here are a couple that you don't see every day. Aug 15 1871 Illustrated London News(Boston - great illustration of the underhand pitchers delivery and split grip) and 1869 New York Clipper of the Cincinnati Red Stockings.

[bigfanNY]

The two player woodcut with an early Commy is a half page so nice and large. A powerhouse White Sox team

[Runscott]

They don't do much for me, but that's mainly because there is a limited selection of quality ones and I've seen them all many times. The hand-tinted ones are interesting if done well, and most were tinted near the time of printing.

[aquarius31]

Very nice Joe! Here are a few more.

09/12/57 - Spirit of the Times - Base Ball in America
07/15/76 - Canadian Illustrated News - Tecumseh Baseball Club
10/17/85 – Police Gazette – The Monarchs of the Diamond Field

[bigfanNY]

George

2 woodcut's of Chicago 1885. What a Contrast How they are portrayed, Police Gazette Monarch's of the field and the Harper's Same team but just a bunch of regular guys sprawled out on the ground. The image vs the reality..

J

[barrysloate]

George- as you probably know, that woodcut from the Spirit of the Times is the first baseball one ever to appear in an American newspaper. As such, it is very significant. Nice one!