Rarely seen, show us some E97 Briggs Lozenge cards

[tedzan]

Originally Posted by spec

The image on the E97 is of Dennis W. Sullivan when he played with the Boston Americans (BA) in 1907. He last played for Boston in 1908 and appeared briefly with Cleveland in 1909. Briggs apparently noticed Sullivan playing for the Chicago White Sox in 1910 and corrected the caption accordingly, not realizing this was Billy Sullivan, who never played for the Boston Americans, though he did break in with the Boston National League club in 1899 and 1900.

Thanks for clarifying.


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One more try..........Billy Sullivan is the first in MLB history to...... ?


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In the next B&L Auction...............

[Bliggity]

Originally Posted by tedzan

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One more try..........Billy Sullivan is the first in MLB history to...... ?
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Wear a chest protector?

[tedzan]

Dan

Billy Sullivan invented the inflatable chest protector (in 1908 he received a U.S. Patent for it).

But, that's not the answer I'm looking for.

Thanks for your answer.


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[Bliggity]

Originally Posted by tedzan

that's not the answer I'm looking for.
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Aw man, I cheat and still get it wrong.

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here's one of mine

Andy

[z28jd]

I still think the e97 Cy Young was meant to be Irv Young. First, they used a picture of him. Second, it has Boston Nat'l on it and he played for the Doves, and third, he was often referred to as Cy Young, and it was just because he was a pitcher with the last name Young.

You have three things that point to it being him. His picture, his team, his nickname. We might not call him Cy Young now, but that doesn't mean it didn't happen. Heck, the called Harley Young, Cy and he didn't win a game in the majors. If you think old nicknames were original, look how many Buck Freeman's there are.

I'd also like to point out that it was a Boston company that put it up, so you're talking about a player in their hometown and they would have had to not known which team Cy Young was on, but also he wasn't a lefty and didn't look like that.

Just like with the Sullivan being switched to a player it wasn't meant to be later in the color version, the Young card could have had the same thing. Look how many of the T206 poses show the wrong player because of a name mix up with earlier photos. Bill Clymer is really Otis Clymer, Art Kruger is Otto Krueger, I can't keep up with the Hinchman's and Lucky Wright is Lucky Wrong, it's actually Eugene Wright.