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Baseball Photography
10 Lots
 Lot 142. George Earnshaw (as a Basketball Player!) Framed Original 8” x 10” Sepia Photo. Earnshaw helped the A’s to reach three World Series from 1929-32. In 1923 and 1924, he was captain of the Swarthmore College basketball team. In this photo, he appears to be a member of an A’s team that participated in exhibition games. Heavy crease in the lower left, a couple of lesser creases and strong contrast.
Winning Bid $15.
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 Lot 143. Photo, Real-Photo Postcards of Unusual 1930s Baseball Teams in Hawaii, Florida. A 6” x 8” photo shows members of at least two teams, including an integrated team from March Field in Riverside, CA. Two edge tears, each ½” or less. Otherwise, g-vg. Two two-panel photo postcards, one 3 ½” x 9 ½” and the other 3 ½” x 11”, are related to St. Petersburg’s “Three Quarter Century Baseball Team.” The smaller pc shows 30 players lined up, and the larger, spectators at the game. Ex with sharp photos.
Winning Bid $15.
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 Lot 144. 16 Photographs (8” x 10”), 2 Prints of National League Ballparks. The photos, generally 1980 reprints of earlier photos, average nm. Most are b&w. Comiskey Park (3 different), Braves Field, Crosley Field (2 prints), Fenway Park, Ebbets Field, the Polo Grounds (2), Baker Bowl, Forbes Field, Tiger Stadium, Wrigley Field (1 and possibly 2 others) and Yankee Stadium.
Winning Bid $55.
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 Lot 145. 3 ½” x 5 ½” Photos of Moses Fleetwood Walker and Welday W. Walker. Although not identified as such, these photos are consistent with the reproductions of Burke and Brace. In 1884, Moses Walker became the first African-American in the majors. His brother Welday also played major league ball. Each photo has a blank back with the player’s name and date of death neatly printed in ink. Ex.
Winning Bid $20.
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 Lot 146. 21 Photos of Mainly 1930s Players – Dean, Hubbell, Gomez, Frisch, Terry, Etc. All different; 20 are 8” x 10”. Also, a mid-1920s International Newsreel 6 ½” x 8 ½” wire photo of Bob Meusel with the Giants. Excellent contrast, a ¾” edge tear, a couple of pin holes, an edge chip and various creases. Scarce. The 20 players, in b&w photos likely printed in the 1950s, are: Berger (2), Ben Chapman (2), Dizzy Dean (3), Daffy Dean (2), Frisch, Gehringer (2), Gomez, Hubbell (sepia), Klein, Lazzeri, Ott (sepia), Simmons, Terry (2). These photos average ex-m.
Minimum Bid $50.
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 Lot 442. 1935 Bismarck, ND, National Semi-Pro Champs Reprint Photo with Satchel Paige. “That was the best team I ever saw; the best players I ever played with. But who ever heard of them?” That’s how Paige remembers the 1935 Bismarck team, which was assembled by Neil Churchill, a local car salesman. Besides Paige, the integrated team included Barney Morris, Hilton Smith, Double Duty Radcliffe, Red Haley and Quincy Trouppe from the Negro Leagues. Unsurprisingly, the team went undefeated for the entire 1935 season, winning the first Semi-Pro National Baseball Championship at Wichita, Kansas. A postcard-sized original image of this team can bring $1,000 or more. This high-quality nm-m reprint, 10 7/8” x 17 7/8” on photo paper and suitable for framing, could be yours for our MB $25.
Minimum Bid $25.
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 Lot 582. Pittsburgh Pirates Team-Issued Photos of Dino Restelli, Bill Mazeroski. Restelli played only two seasons of major league baseball, both with Pittsburgh, in 1949 and 1951. He started off his rookie season with a bang, hitting eight homeruns in his first 10 games. In the next 62 games, he hit only four homers. After the 1951 season, the San Francisco native returned home and joined the police force. His circa 1950 photo is 4” x 5” with creases in the bottom right corner and several tack holes in the border. G-vg with a strong sepia image. The Maz photo, probably from the early 1960s, is b&w, 8” x 10” and shows evidence of press use on the back. Vg+ to ex.
Winning Bid $40.
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 Lot 596. Negative, Photo of Roberto Clemente in a Montreal Royals Uniform. While Clemente was still playing in Puerto Rico, the Brooklyn Dodgers offered him a contract to play with the Montreal Royals, where he stayed until the Pittsburgh Pirates drafted him in Nov, 1954. This 2 3/8” x 3 3/8” negative shows a young Clemente in the Montreal uniform. A 6” x 8” print made from the negative is included. The image is also on a computer disc.
Winning Bid $125.
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