Folk Art Renditions of Baseball Players/ Who Are They?

[Butch7999]

Oh, and full marks to Old Cardboard [ http://www.oldcardboard.com/wg/wg1/w...?cardsetID=946 ]
for being the source of most of those card images (no need to Google with Old Cardboard right there)...

[doug.goodman]

With thanks due to both Buchner and Butch7999, now the question remaining is, are there cards in that set that match the artwork the OP originally asked about?

Doug "still lazy, after all these years" Goodman

[1880nonsports]

Nice to see you posting Buchner and bringing the wisdom of many years :-) Drop me a line sometime.....
henry moses

BTW - I tried collecting WG1's...... I managed two :-)

[perezfan]

Originally Posted by doug.goodman

With thanks due to both Buchner and Butch7999, now the question remaining is, are there cards in that set that match the artwork the OP originally asked about?

Doug "still lazy, after all these years" Goodman

I tried to not be lazy, and searched quite a bit. But to no avail... cannot find either general images or specific player images that match those two specific poses.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

This place never ceases to amaze me. Amazing stuff with the WG1's, had nobody made that connection before? Good luck Glenn if anybody is going to find answers, they're probably here!

[TaxMechanick]

Thanks to all... Buchner, Butch7999, Doug, Mark, etc.

This is great detective work! We now have identified the players in the matching (sets) of (6).

We also have a further mystery... or at least I still have on my hands! The (2) I have (images toward top of thread) are not identifiable relative to the WG1 set... they are completely different images; however, they are absolutely similar in overall style as the others.

I still believe mine are folk art renditions. I now believe with even more certaintly that they were renditions of intended specified players.... for now I'll keep with one being long John Riley. On the other, I need to back off of it being John Monte Ward, as he is covered in the group above.

http://www.oldcardboard.com/wg/wg1/wg1gal.asp

My project continues...

Best,
Glenn

[TaxMechanick]

For what it is worth, with the caveat that I do not have the actual items in hand in order to better study the quality of the couple of groups of (6) player images... these images do appear as others have mentioned to potentially represent transfer images... and as discovered perhaps from WG1 player representations.

On the other hand, while I'm somewhat tainted in my view in that I actually have mine in hand, mine appear to me not to be transfer images from any set, but, rather to be original hand painted (folk art) depictions.I suppose it is possible for there to be original transfers underlying the painted images, but it does not appear to be so to me on close examination.

The mystery continues...

Best,
Glenn