All the Cubs

[Shankweather]

Originally Posted by GaryPassamonte

I don't have a scan of the back. I'm sure it has the photographer's ID and possibly a faint Barnes signature.

Well then I will presume to ask you to scan the back haha. You've got to document that artifact!

[GaryPassamonte]

Maybe someday.

[Shankweather]

Also stoked to get this Nixey Callahan supplement from Brockelman. The only issue to show him as a Cub (Orphan/Colt whatever).



Plus some more Cubbie wonders:

[nolemmings]

Here's one of my favorites, although I'm not at all sure why these subjects appear together in this set from 1936:
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[Shankweather]

That picture makes no sense! What in the world. Tris Speaker? C for Chicago or Cleveland? Or Cincinnati?

[BioCRN]

For a very short time in the early 30s Tris Speaker did radio for the cubs. It was in the early 30s, not the mid-30s, though.

[Shankweather]

Originally Posted by BioCRN

For a very short time in the early 30s Tris Speaker did radio for the cubs. It was in the early 30s, not the mid-30s, though.

Well that would make sense, because Taylor and Cuyler played together 1929-32. But I never knew that about Speaker.

[nolemmings]

Originally Posted by BioCRN

For a very short time in the early 30s Tris Speaker did radio for the cubs. It was in the early 30s, not the mid-30s, though.

Yes, Spoke was there in the booth for a brief while in 1931, but it's odd that he's in uniform (maybe a Spring Training hitting coach?) and odder that they would use such an old image given how the remaining cards are far more contemporary to the issue date. They must have really wanted to include Tris. Fine by me. Probably not much stuff out there connecting him to Chicago.