A New Dazzy Vance "Rookie" card

[Jaybird]

Great picture. Love the guy in the straw boater hat behind the chicken wire.

[Brian Van Horn]

So let's see. We have Sterling Holloway who looks like Dazzy Vance and William Bendix who played Babe Ruth. Everything comes full circle to baseball.

[RickGallway]

Thanks for sharing it Dan.

[tachyonbb]

Baseball Reference has Dazzy with York in 1912 but I am pretty sure he was with Superior in 1912. I have most of the summer newspapers from York and from Superior in 1912 and he appears regularly in the Superior box scores and does not appear in the York box scores. He is also referenced in a few stories as being a Superior player.

[Baseball Rarities]

FWIW, my 1958 edition of The Sporting News Daguerreotypes shows Vance having played for a "Red Cloud" team in 1912.

[bh3443]

I think you guys un-earthed a real gem. I think the photo is Pat Buttram who played Mr. Haney on Green Acres and was Gene Autrey's buddy!

I might be wrong, so I'm hoping for a visual confirmation!

Thanks,
Bill Hedin
bh3443@gmail.com

[tachyonbb]

Kevin, Red Cloud was only in the Nebraska State League for one year 1910.
Various towns had the option to "go dry" in the fall of 1910. When Red Cloud went dry support for the team dried up (pun intended) and the franchise moved to York Nebraska in 1911.

http://www.nebaseballhistory.com/ is a link to my Nebraska Minor League baseball history site.

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by tachyonbb

Kevin, Red Cloud was only in the Nebraska State League for one year 1910.
Various towns had the option to "go dry" in the fall of 1910. When Red Cloud went dry support for the team dried up (pun intended) and the franchise moved to York Nebraska in 1911.

Where they promptly named their club the York Prohibitionists!

[Baseball Rarities]

Originally Posted by tachyonbb

Kevin, Red Cloud was only in the Nebraska State League for one year 1910.
Various towns had the option to "go dry" in the fall of 1910. When Red Cloud went dry support for the team dried up (pun intended) and the franchise moved to York Nebraska in 1911.

http://www.nebaseballhistory.com/ is a link to my Nebraska Minor League baseball history site.

Very interesting. Thanks for the info and the link.