Unidentified Baseball Team on oversized real photo postcard

[Steve D]

The stamp was first issued in 1908. So, I went to the Gettysburg College website and looked at their game-by-game scores over the years. Interestingly, I can find absolutely no games that ended with Gettysburg losing 6-1; and I looked at all years into the 1920s.

Steve

[Rich Falvo]

Could that logo be SCI (Shenandoah Collegiate Institute, now Shenandoah University)?

Gettysburg baseball results by opponent show a 6-0 loss vs SCI in 1910. Possible the postcard writer got the score wrong?

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[Webster]

"Could that logo be SCI (Shenandoah Collegiate Institute, now Shenandoah University)?

Gettysburg baseball results by opponent show a 6-0 loss vs SCI in 1910. Possible the postcard writer got the score wrong?"


This gets my vote!

[Steve D]

From looking on Newspapers.com, Shenandoah Collegiate Institute was in Dayton, Virginia; and the initials on those uniforms are SCI.

Steve

[hharm3]

Thanks guys. Great work. This makes a lot of sense too since Dayton, VA is near Harrisonburg where my FIL would often flea market and yard sale. Hambleton, WV is also not too far into WV from there so it might make sense that players from Hambleton would be in school there.

Now, I just need someone to tell me that there are 2 or 3 Hall of Famers pictured and I'll be good to go.

Seriously, though thank you very much. I was really barking up the wrong tree looking in Ohio. Much appreciated.

[Steve D]

I just took another look at the Gettysburg College website, and it lists only one game played against Shenandoah Collegiate Institute. That is their only listed game against SCI, until 1985.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/sidearm.sit...ore_000000.pdf

According to it, SCI beat Gettysburg 6-0, and the game was played March 24, 1910, presumably at SCI.

So, while the initials on the uniforms are a match, and SCI was in Dayton, VA, where the postcard was mailed, the game was almost two months before the postcard was mailed (the postmark only clearly shows "MA" for the month, but the date is before the 20th of the month, so if the postmark was actually March, it would have been before the game was even played.

So something isn't matching up.

Steve

[Michael B]

The school now know as Shenandoah University does not appear to have ever been called Shenandoah Collegiate Institute.

Per wiki:

Rev. Abram Paul Funkhouser and Rev. John (Jay) Paul Fries founded the school as Shenandoah Seminary in 1875. At the time, it was located on a 10-acre campus in Dayton, Virginia, and classes were initially held in a two-room lo structure.[4][5] The school had 11 students enrolled in its first year.[5]

Shenandoah Seminary became a junior college in 1924, changing its name to Shenandoah College the following year. Shenandoah Conservatory became a separate corporation in 1937 and began granting four-year degrees.

My first thought was Shephard College in Shepardstown, WV which is about 35-40 miles from Gettysburg, but they never had 'institute' as part of their name.

[Casey2296]

Originally Posted by Steve D

I just took another look at the Gettysburg College website, and it lists only one game played against Shenandoah Collegiate Institute. That is their only listed game against SCI, until 1985.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/sidearm.sit...ore_000000.pdf

According to it, SCI beat Gettysburg 6-0, and the game was played March 24, 1910, presumably at SCI.

So, while the initials on the uniforms are a match, and SCI was in Dayton, VA, where the postcard was mailed, the game was almost two months before the postcard was mailed (the postmark only clearly shows "MA" for the month, but the date is before the 20th of the month, so if the postmark was actually March, it would have been before the game was even played.

So something isn't matching up.

Steve

Could the postmark "MA" represent May and not March?

[EddieP]

[QUOTE/]According to it, SCI beat Gettysburg 6-0, and the game was played March 24, 1910, presumably at SCI.

So, while the initials on the uniforms are a match, and SCI was in Dayton, VA, where the postcard was mailed, the game was almost two months before the postcard was mailed (the postmark only clearly shows "MA" for the month, but the date is before the 20th of the month, so if the postmark was actually March, it would have been before the game was even played.

So something isn't matching up.

Steve[/QUOTE]

Post-mark for March would be “MAR” and for May would be “MAY”. The third letter is not well seen by I think it is a “Y”.

Oops just saw Mine__Mints post.