anyone know of an earlier baseball related image of joe wood?

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Posted By: rmacpa

front row standing fifth from left
(click on scan to enlarge).
another example of this postcard was included in book featuring kashmanian collection.
this example was verified by joe wood's grandson several years ago.

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Posted By: Steve M.

you dating this item.

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Posted By: rmacpa

joe wood played with the western bloomer girls
for the last three weeks of their 1906 season.
while there is an earlier image of joe wood
serving as a mascot of a town team, i have yet
to find an earlier image of wood as a player.

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Posted By: David McDonald

For those who missed it, this card sold on eBay a couple of months ago. I did not win it but saved the image. It is the 1907 Hutchinson team so it is not an "earlier" image of Joe Wood, rather a contemporary but somewhat later one. All the same, it is a nice depiction of a young Smokey Joe.


Edited to add a link to this interesting article: "The History of Baseball in Hutchinson, Kansas"
http://www.funvalleysports.com/about/history/history_baseball.shtml

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Posted By: Justin

Earlier this year, somebody sold a bunch of 1899-00 Sporting Life magazine cut outs of baseball players of the time on Ebay. Joe Wood was one of the players depicted on those cut outs, and it sold for over $200 if i remember correctly. I saved some of the scans, but i can only find this one player right now, but you get the idea of what the 1899-00 Sporting Life magazine baseball player images look like.

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Posted By: Steve M.

doubt if he played ball in 1899-00

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Posted By: rmacpa

in 1900, joe wood would have been 11 years old,
and while he may have been playing some level
of baseball at that age, its not likely the sporting
life would have included his image in their
publication for the years referenced (1899-1900).

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Posted By: Justin

Yes Yes, my mistake. I could have sworn one of the players last names from this issue was Wood. I guess I just figured it was Joe Wood since it sold for so much.

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Posted By: barrysloate

I sold that Hutchinson PC on ebay. I think someone got a good deal on it, considering how popular his cards are.

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Posted By: David McDonald

Wish I had bid harder on your auction, Barry, but I think I was in the middle of one my occasional "spending too much money on baseball cards" lapses into frugality.

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Posted By: barrysloate

Everything comes around again.

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Posted By: Ryan Christoff

I believe there is a photo of Wood playing for a town team in Ouray, Colorado when he was 14 or 15 around 1903 or 1904. He lived in Ouray for a few years beginning in the spring of 1899 when he was 9 years old until he was 16 when his family moved back to Kansas.


-Ryan