Need help identifying this

[frankbmd]

Not a baseball team at all.

Only eight players and a mascot/batboy.

[bmarlowe1]

Note that the uniform style is 1890s - early 1900s. The gloves seem consistent with that. This all would be at least very uncommon for c1919, unless they were really old hand-me-downs. The postcard could of course been produced at a later date.

[asphaltman]

Originally Posted by bmarlowe1

Note that the uniform style is 1890s - early 1900s. The gloves seem consistent with that. This all would be at least very uncommon for c1919, unless they were really old hand-me-downs. The postcard could of course been produced at a later date.

Agree. Solely saying circa 1919ish based on the reverse...but with the divided back could be as early as 1907....either way makes sense with you dating the uniforms 1890's to early 1900's...I would venture likely some sort of hand me downs....

[drcy]

If it's real photo (no dots in image), it's an early 1900s cyanotype real photo postcard. Cyanotype was a photo processes known for its blue (cyan) image and was used to make some real photo postcards and snapshots. Baseball cyanotypes are scarce but not rare. The uniforms are early, so the date would be close to the 1907 divided back starting date.

Doubtful to be the Tacoma team, they only played two seasons 1923 & 1924. Here's an image of Babe Ruth & Bob Meusel in Tacoma playing an all-star aggregate from the Tacoma Industrial League. No members of the 1924 Skidoos on the team:

http://digitum.washingtonhistory.org...nd/id/27/rec/1

Way too many references to the popular phrase to narrow it down. With only eight players as Frank noted it's likely a very small town team. There was a mining community, now ghost town in Death Valley, once named "23 Skidoo" founded in 1907. Closer to LA and timeframe given by those much more knowledgeable on such things., but these are hunches. I can say for certain the man on the right reminds me of mouschi's profile pic. Good luck Scubadad.

https://books.google.com/books?id=CZ...seball&f=false

[Jeffrompa]

It's a Cyanotype most likely produced between 1905 and 1910 . I agree the image could be from an earlier photo .

[Scubadad]

Wow! Great info, all! Thanks!

[mouschi]

Originally Posted by pariah1107

Doubtful to be the Tacoma team, they only played two seasons 1923 & 1924. Here's an image of Babe Ruth & Bob Meusel in Tacoma playing an all-star aggregate from the Tacoma Industrial League. No members of the 1924 Skidoos on the team:

http://digitum.washingtonhistory.org...nd/id/27/rec/1

Way too many references to the popular phrase to narrow it down. With only eight players as Frank noted it's likely a very small town team. There was a mining community, now ghost town in Death Valley, once named "23 Skidoo" founded in 1907. Closer to LA and timeframe given by those much more knowledgeable on such things., but these are hunches. I can say for certain the man on the right reminds me of mouschi's profile pic. Good luck Scubadad.

https://books.google.com/books?id=CZ...seball&f=false

Maybe it is my great great grandfather!

[khkco4bls]

That image is not from 1910 to 20 S. It is from the 1890 s lace up front gloves add up to that time period.

[dougscats]

Just to add credence to the earlier dates:

Regarding usage of the phrase 23 skiddoo:

"its heyday was really the first decade of the century; by the 1920s it was already rather passé."


http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-twe2.htm