Unidentified Baseball Team on oversized real photo postcard

[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?

[MINES_MINT]

Originally Posted by Casey2296

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

It reads "MAY", the Y is faint but its there.

[Steve D]

Originally Posted by MINES_MINT

It reads "MAY", the Y is faint but its there.

So, the game was played on March 24th, and the postcard has a postmark date of May 19th; but the sender said the game was "yesterday". The postmark was 55 days after the game was played. So he wrote the message to the addressee, but waited 55 days to mail it, and didn't correct the wording?

Steve