Unidentified Baseball Team on oversized real photo postcard

[hharm3]

Would like some help identifying the below team and potentially the players pictured. I can't quite make out the postmarked year (1912 maybe) but it's from Dayton (OH?) which might be clues to the identity of the team. The back of the card shows the names of the players pictured. The fold appears to original, and the total size of the card is 9.25" x 3.25"

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[mybuddyinc]

Cool postcard !!!

Would have to assume Dayton, OH.

The logo looks like STC. Which could be St. Christopher's. There is a St. Christopher's School in Richmond, VA. But, that school wasn't founded until 1922.

Beating Gettysburg (PA) is your main clue. The key would be a better date. Probably May, but not sure if I see 1912. Maybe try to look up Gettysburg baseball scores in 1912, or years about then. Wouldn't be surprised that you might find something.

The one thing I can tell you player #8 "Hank" probably isn't going to help much .....

[Webster]

Outside chance - Sinclair College in Dayton was founded in the late 19th century. Primarily technical training for men at the time. Now part of the community college system. Worth researching a bit.

[Kawika]

I looked on-line at E-Yearbooks at old Gettysburg College annuals from the era but couldn't find anything resembling a smoking gun. Didn't see a 1912 schedule. Along the way I learned that there is a Dayton in Virginia where once was the site of Shenandoah College although I didn't see where they ever played Gettysburg.

Good luck figuring things out. The answer is out there somewhere.

[Steve D]

The stamp was first issued in 1908. So, I went to the Gettysburg College website and looked at their game-by-game scores over the years. Interestingly, I can find absolutely no games that ended with Gettysburg losing 6-1; and I looked at all years into the 1920s.

Steve

[Rich Falvo]

Could that logo be SCI (Shenandoah Collegiate Institute, now Shenandoah University)?

Gettysburg baseball results by opponent show a 6-0 loss vs SCI in 1910. Possible the postcard writer got the score wrong?

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