ID Help - Anyone ever seen one of these?

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by gonzo

The Cub photos on the cardboard strips are strange.

I think the heads and torsos are taken from this team photo of the 1910 Cubs, but with heads, torsos, and legs cut-and-pasted.
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/n...photo/73333815

Look at Sheckard in the team photo. Note his belt loops, the way that his jersey folds a bit to cause a sort of dent in the top of the “C” on his chest, and the way that his shirt folds noticeably on his right arm as he crosses it under his left.

Compare that to the cardboard strips for Hoffman, Kling, Tinker, and Chance. It looks to me like those photos are identical below the neck, and they all resemble that photo of Sheckard from just below the neck to below the belt.

The legs for those 4 seem to come from some other photo, but again, they look like the same set of legs, comparing the marks and folds by the knees.

Overall’s cardboard strip image, from his head to just over his knees, seems to have been copied from that team photo. But his legs from the knees down are still taken from somewhere else, to make it look like he is standing.

On the Athletics cardboard strips, the bodies all look the same to me from the chest down, with the heads cut-and-pasted in.

Interesting, and good spotting on the team photo. I'm not saying that this is indeed the case, but if they were game pieces you would definitely want the players to be depicted upright, instead of sitting.

I guess I am always trying to work a game angle on these.

Brian