SOLD - 1869-71 Antique Tintype Baseball Card - New York Mutuals - John Hatfield?

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Original TinType for New York Mutuals Baseball player dated between 1869 and 1871.

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Mutual Base Ball Club of New York
(New York Mutuals)
Information
League
National League (1876)
National Association (professional) (1871–1875)
National Association (amateur) (1858–1870)
Location Hoboken, New Jersey (1857–1867)
Brooklyn, New York (1868–1876)
Ballpark
Union Grounds (1868–1876)
Elysian Fields (1857–1867)
Founded 1857
Folded 1876
League championships
National League pennants: 0
National Association pennants: 0
National Association (amateur) pennants: 2 (1858, 1868)
Colors Navy, white

THIS IS THE ORIGINAL TINTYPE THAT WAS USED FOR THE IMAGE USED IN THE WIKIPEDIA PAGE FOR THIS TEAM. You can see the Tintype is the reverse image of the photograph below. The Tintype measures approx the size of a baseball card. It was scanned for this listing at 600dpi to show as much detail as possible.

The image LOOKS LIKE John Hatfield as seen seated second to left in image below of the 1869 New York Mutuals baseball club. The uniform matches the year. Information is simply a result of extensive research.




The Mutual Base Ball Club of New York was an American baseball club established in 1857, the year of the first baseball convention. The Mutuals just missed out on being a founding member of the National Association of Base Ball Players that year, but later became a charter member of both the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players, or "NA", the first professional league, in 1871, and then the National League in 1876.

The Mutual club initially played its home games at Elysian Fields in Hoboken, with the New York Knickerbockers and many other Manhattan clubs, but moved to the enclosed Union Grounds in Brooklyn in 1868. Though historically identified as "New York", they never staged any home games in Manhattan, which before 1898 was considered to be "New York City."

The Mutuals chose open professionalism in 1869–70 after NABBP liberalization. They joined the NA for its 1871 to 1875 duration. In 1876, the Chicago White Stockings initiated the National League and recruited its members from West to East, partly to wrest control of professional baseball from Eastern interests. The Mutuals were one of eight charter members, six of whom were from the National Association. Weak (sixth place at 21–35) and cash-poor, the club refused to complete its playing obligations in the West; and was expelled.[4]

On May 13, 1876, the Mutuals executed the first triple play in major-league history in a game against the Hartford Dark Blues.

Union Grounds proprietor William Cammeyer, often listed today as the Mutual club owner, signed the Hartford Dark Blues to play at his Union Grounds in 1877. The team was effectively a one-year replacement for the defunct Mutuals, and was sometimes called "Hartford of Brooklyn".

John Hatfield

Left fielder / Infielder
Born: July 20, 1847
Hoboken, New Jersey
Died: February 20, 1909 (aged 61)
Long Island City, Queens, New York
Batted: Unknown
Threw: Unknown
MLB debut
May 18, 1871, for the New York Mutuals
Last MLB appearance
May 5, 1876, for the New York Mutuals
MLB statistics
Batting average .280
Home runs 3
Runs batted in 146
Stats at Baseball Reference Edit this at Wikidata
Teams
National Association of Base Ball Players
Gotham of New York (1864)
Active of New York (1865)
New York Mutuals (1866–1867, 1869–1870)
Cincinnati Red Stockings (1868)
League player
New York Mutuals (1871–1876)
League manager
New York Mutuals (1872–1873)
John Van Buskirk Hatfield (July 20, 1847 – February 20, 1909) was an American professional baseball player in the 1860s and 1870s. He was a batting star and versatile fielder for the Mutual Base Ball Club (New York Mutuals) both before and after spending the 1868 season as left fielder for Harry Wright's Cincinnati Red Stockings. Left field was his primary position during four years as a regular player in the major leagues from 1871. For a few decades after leaving the game he was famous for his "world record" long-distance throw. During an 1868 exhibition at Cincinnati's Union Grounds he threw the baseball 132 yards (396 feet).[1] On October 15, 1872 Hatfield threw a baseball 400 feet.[2]

Revolver
John Hatfield's season in Cincinnati was the last of the amateur era. Like Fred Waterman, another import from New York, he must have been compensated by members of the Cincinnati club if not by the club itself.[3] He was already famous for "revolving" or changing his membership from one club to another. After playing much of two seasons for the New York Gothams to the Actives in September 1865 and played for two other clubs before the end of that season, probably in November. He played mainly for the Actives in 1866 and joined the New York Mutuals for 1867 (Ryczek 1998, 141). That club was always one of the strongest and by Hatfield's time one of the leaders on the frontier of professionalism. Boss Tweed was a member of the club and it was able to compensate some players with city jobs.

Late in 1868 Hatfield missed a match with Cincinnati's intercity rival, the Buckeyes, when a defeat would have required a third game to decide the local championship. After Cincinnati won without him, it came out that he had been benched by his club following a seamy incident the night before. Gamblers had "plied him with liquor, and offered him $200 plus a job in the assessor's office if he would desert the Red Stockings and immediately become captain of the Buckeyes." He had admitted the scheme, but plead intoxication and asked to continue playing with the Red Stockings. They returned him to good standing sometime after the big game.[4]

At the same time, the Buckeyes had hired three outside players for the big game. Like the Red Stockings, they had improved their team before the season by importing some eastern stars. Apparently many player engagements were agreed by contracts of some kind, although little is known about the details. At its annual meeting that December, the National Association expressly permitted professional clubs and thus employment contracts for players.

For the first professional season John Hatfield signed a contract to play with Cincinnati again, but he later signed also with his prior club the Mutuals, and he returned to New York leaving debts in the Queen City.

Professional
Hatfield remained with the Mutuals for his remaining six seasons as a regular player, 1869–1874 including 1870 as team captain.

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