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3 Different 1800s Harper’s Color Baseball Woodcuts.
Lot 37. 3 Different 1800s Harper’s Color Baseball Woodcuts. 1. 1866 Harper’s Baseball Woodcut Featuring “Athletic” and “Atlantic” Players. Philadelphia was a central part of baseballs’ earliest history. Amateur teams probably started playing there as early as 1830. In 1860, James N. Kerns formed a club, simply named “Athletic Base Ball Club.” “Athletic” (Base Ball Club was dropped) soon dominated amateur play in the area. The Nov. 3, 1866 Harper’s Weekly chronicles a championship match between the “Athletic of Philadelphia” and “Atlantic of Brooklyn” and contains the publication’s fourth baseball woodcut print. The score was “Athletic” 32, “Atlantic” 12. The famous Harper’s illustration shows the Athletic players in uniforms with the familiar Old English “A” on the front. The Atlantic players have “ABBC” on their uniforms. The ex woodcut measures 10 ½” x 14”. There is slight amount of inoffensive staining in the upper border and lower right corner that does not affect the image. 2. Oct. 26, 1867, “The champion nine of the Union Base-Ball Club of Morrisania, New York,” 7” x 11” with a very slight chip in upper left, ex. 3. July 25, 1874, “The Philadelphia Athletics,” 10” x 14” with slight inoffensive tears and a small amount of tape in the top right corner. Vg-ex. A very young Cap Anson is pictured with bat in hand.
Winning Bid $148.
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