1898 Cleveland Spiders Baseball Program

[rhettyeakley]

Had a chance to look at it for a few minutes and these are some id's

Burkett--middle row just to the right of the fold
McAleer-back row just to the left of the fold
Nig Cuppy--front row far left
Tebeau--I'm thinking he is the guy in the middle, middle row--tough to tell with the fold.

I'll keep looking.

Edited to add:
Fred Blake--probably the guy third from left on top row.
Zeke Wilson--probably the mustachioed guy top far left
Jack O'Connor--may be the guy second from left in front row--not 100% on these three

[bcbgcbrcb]

Great item, Congrats! It looks like Rhett has all of the ID's correct.

[jimthorpe]

Very nice Program Pat.

Mike McKee

[bmarlowe1]

That is way cool. It is made from an 1895 team photo with some of the faces pasted over with current team members. I've attached the '95 photo. The ID's for that one are:

back row:
Tom O'Meara, Harry Blake, Jimmy McAleer, Cy Young, Chief Zimmer, Jack O'Connor, Cupid Childs

mid row:
Chippy McGarr (big mustache), JH Robison,Patsy Tebeau, GW Howe, George Tebeau, Ed McKean


front row:
Nig Cuppy, Phil Knell, Jesse Burkett sitting in front of Patsy Tebeau, Bobby Wallace right of him


The men in business suits (Robison and Howe) have been replaced, players added in the back row between other players, and the faces of at least O'Meara, O'Connor, McKean, Geo Tebeau, Burkett, Knell, and McGarr pasted over with other players.


Specifically Geo Tebeau was replaced with Lou Criger, Knell with Sport McCallister, O'Connor with Sockalexis, and Robison with what may be either McKean or it could be another shot of Cy Young - the post is a bit too blurry for me to be sure. I'm a bit too busy to go figure it all out right now.

[barrysloate]

It does look like some of the heads are floating in the 1898 image. Wow, talk about a great program. It's tough enough to find any early program with a photo of the team, but one with Cy Young and Frank Chance, from his rookie year, is really special.

And I believe the image of Ed McKean, which is one of the ones superimposed on someone else's body, is the same one used on his Just So card. I wasn't able to recognize any others from the set, however.

[bmarlowe1]

Hey Barry - can you post that just-so McKean image?

[barrysloate]

I might be able to do it over the weekend (my wife does my scanning- I'm a computer idiot), unless someone else can beat me to it. I'm pretty sure they're the same. I checked Cuppy, Zimmer, Tebeau, and O'Connor but they don't match.