April Pickup Thread

[kkkkandp]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

Antique show pickup. Jl wilkinson…coach at center.

Very interesting card, Pete!

Any idea of the year? If the card specifically says it is a "lady" team, why are there some non-lady personnel in uniform?

[ullmandds]

Originally Posted by kkkkandp

Very interesting card, Pete!

Any idea of the year? If the card specifically says it is a "lady" team, why are there some non-lady personnel in uniform?

id presume 1910-20? Ha ha...I hadn't even looked that closely to notice that! like 1/2 men!!!!! I think joe jackson is one of them!

[ullmandds]

"At the end of the 1908 season, Wilkinson disbanded the Hopkins men’s team and created a barnstorming club of “Bloomer Girls” named the Hopkins Brothers Champion Lady Baseball Club. He recruited the best female baseball players he could find, including a superstar from the Boston Bloomer Girls, who played under the name Carrie Nation, the famous ax-wielding temperance activist and suffragette. Wilkinson augmented the team with at least three male players, including a catcher who was also a wrestler and who was willing to take on all comers in the small towns in which they played. Beginning in June 1909, the club traveled in style when Wilkinson leased a Pullman Palace railroad car for their barnstorming tours. In addition to the players and a bulldog mascot, he took along a portable ballpark, consisting of a canvas fence 14 feet high and 1,200 feet long, and a canopy-covered grandstand that could seat 2,000 fans. The next year he added a lighting system for use in night games. It would not be the last time he experimented with lights."

SABR

[Wanaselja]

I love this forum.

[kkkkandp]

Sounds like Mr. Wilkinson is the kind of guy I'd liked to have had a drink with!

[ullmandds]

guessing the guy top left is the wrestler????

[VoodooChild]

I picked this up for $3 at a local antique shop today. I've never found or owned anything like this before so I'm pretty psyched. I actually thought the price tag said $30 and had no problem with that so $3 was a no-brainer. I don't care if this ever actually had a T206 in it. I just think it was a cool find.