Rare Rube Waddell Items

[doug.goodman]

Trimmed but...

[JoeRand]

Great image. Is that from a newspaper?

Originally Posted by doug.goodman

Trimmed but...

[Baseball Rarities]

Scott - those are amazing. Especially love the green mount.

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by JoeRand

Great image. Is that from a newspaper?

Police Gazette Supplement #1505 June 16, 1906

[paul]

Scott, are there any other W600 players with green mounts, or is Waddell the only one? Any explanation for why the unusual mount was issued at all? Thanks.

[sb1]

Originally Posted by paul

Scott, are there any other W600 players with green mounts, or is Waddell the only one? Any explanation for why the unusual mount was issued at all? Thanks.

Yes, there are four different players known with the dark green mount, Fred Clarke, Lajoie, Waddell and Wallace. All are from the first issued year of 1902, perhaps the earlier issued ones came with this mount before changing to the usually seen one as we know them.

[paul]

Thanks Scott.

In response to Michael (molenick), there is a premium by S.R. Church featuring exactly the same colorized picture of Waddell. It's stunning and rare. I used to own one but sadly traded it away. In the premium, the text on the right and left edges is missing, as is the "present" language at the top.

[molenick]

I assume the premium is the picture offered at the bottom for 5 cents.

[molenick]

This is an ad for History of Base Ball, Vol. 1 (1845-1871) by Seymour Church (sometimes referred to as "the Church book"). As far as I can tell (from some online research) it was an inset to another of Church's books Analyses of Pig Iron or maybe an actual page in the book (although what I have is thicker stock than a book page and does not appear to have been taken from a bound book).