**Help Requested** September 8th, 1930 Old Timers Game in Boston

HexsHeroes · #1 11-11-2010, 10:00 AM

Last May, Jim Stinson offered several autograph cuts taken from a 1939 (?) Boston Old-Timer's Game scorecard. The following is paraphrased from his 5/18/2010 Autograph Update:

In July 1939 At Fenway Park in Boston the Red Sox hosted what has been called the first "Old Timers Day" They invited many of the retired legends of the day to participate in the game that included Cy Young, Walter Johnson, Chief Bender, Ed Walsh, Grover Alexander, Tris Speaker and many more. In addition they invited many past Boston Players from both the early days of the Boston Nationals and Boston Red Sox to attend the game. The cuts offered here were removed from the scorecard of that day's game. Includes some tremendously RARE signatures as even in 1939 some of the former players were too old to participate in the game. All of the autographs that follow were signed IN-PERSON at that 1939 game: CHIEF BENDER, ED WALSH, GEORGE "LEFTY" TYLER, JOE FRANCIS "JOEY" CONNOLLY, FRANK H. CONNAUGHTON, JOE CASEY, BUCK O'BRIEN, and JACK ONSLOW
I used the images he posted with his listing and roughly recreated parts of the scorecard:

Ladder7 · #2 11-11-2010, 10:59 AM

Hope it's Type1. Though the players on the ends being slightly cut-off could indicate it had been cropped from original. My experience anyway.

Regardless, It's a Beantown memory of great beauty... And we must have it!

Big Six · #3 11-11-2010, 11:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ladder7

Hope it's Type1. Though the players on the ends being slightly cut-off could indicate it had been cropped from original. My experience anyway.

Regardless, It's a Beantown memory of great beauty... And we must have it!

I'm thinking the cropping of the players on the ends means more that it is a photograph taken by a non-professional...perhaps by the person who wrote on the reverse of the picture. I think that might also be the case because of the perspective of the photo (off to the side versus the Official photo's head-on perspective)...more a "witness" perspective. Keep the comments coming...

Big Six · #4 11-12-2010, 10:45 AM

I didn't buy this for investment puposes...it's getting framed and hung in a prominent spot in my office regardless. Just curious if anyone who has experience with photos can give me a ball park on value...at least from an insurance standpoint. Thanks...Matt

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