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Baseball
43 Lots
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Headliners
 Lot 31. 1889 New York Giant Theatre book and program — "Complimentary Testimonial to the New York Baseball Club". A most unusual pair, a 4 page 6" x 9 1/2" paper program including the night’s agenda, a seating plan and an ad on the back cover and more importantly an elaborate and ornate 6" square program (though the presentation is triangular) outlining the evening’s program and including two pages, each with 9 portraits of the Giants. The portraits, which include John Ward, Roger Connor, Tim Keefe, Buck Ewing, James O’Rourke and Mickey Welch (all on one fabulous page) are the same poses as those used on the N338-2 S.F. Hess cards and Police Gazette Cabinets and were obviously photographed by the latter firm. The program is held together at the upper corner and the front page is loose. Excellent and very rare. Included is copies of several related newspaper articles, one making mention of the event in a gossip column, and another giving a detailed report of the evening.
Minimum Bid $750.
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 Lot 32. Australian Tour Cabinet of Ned Williamson. The famous Stevens Studio in Chicago produced Cabinet photos for all the Chicago players who went on Albert Spalding’s Australian Tour in 1888-89. The photos came on the market from a player’s grand-daughter’s estate in the 1980’s. Williamson was a superlative infielder for Chicago in the 1880’s setting league leading performances at both shortstop and third base. He also hit 27 Home runs in 1884, the league record until 1919. The Cabinet is in ex+-mt condition with almost all the gold leaf still present on the edges.
Minimum Bid $500.
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 Lot 33. 1889 Chicago BB Club Album. A magnificent 3 7/8" x 5 1/2" innovative album held together (not very well) by a ribbon through a hole at the top. Published by Pfeffer & King (that would be Fred Pfeffer, an infielder on the team and pictured in the book) and consisting of 14 pages, 13 of which are devoted to individual players. The players, a superior group, are Al Spalding, Cap Anson, Frank Dwyer, Tom Daly, Jimmy Ryan, Ed Williamson, Pfeffer, Van Haltren, Gus Krock, Tommy Burns, Charles Farrell, Mark Baldwin, Hugh Duffy and Frank Flint. The back cover carries a graphic ad for Spalding’s Sporting Goods. The book is in very good to excellent condition. Have never seen another.
Minimum Bid $1,000.
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 Lot 34. St. Louis Browns Champion Baseball Club of the World. A 3 1/2" x 6" paper booklet featuring full page portraits of ten Browns in the Browns Champion poses. Included are Owner Von Der Ahe, Manager Comiskey, James O’Neill, Curtis Welch, Art Latham, Yank Robinson, Bill Gleason, Al Bushong, Bob Carruthers and Dave Foutz. Each portrait has a blatant ad for Merrell’s Penetrating Oil below the picture. The 16 page booklet is in very good condition and may be unique.
Minimum Bid $800.
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 Lot 35. Interesting 19th Century Group of 17 Cards. 2 Scrapps and 2 partial Scrapps, 10 N301 Mayo, N162 Goodwin Champion Dunlop; E. R. Williams & WG1 Card Game. Scrapps — White (gd-vg), Gleason, part of lower left with name rubbed away (fr-gd), Rowe, chunk missing from lower right (poor), Richardson, top half of head missing, (poor minus) N162 Goodwin Dunlap, Pittsburgh (gd, tiny spot of paper loss on front, light crease and back damage), WG1 Card Game Whitney, Washington (gd, faded front and back), ER Williams game card (no player), excellent. N301 Mayo — 10 different, average excellent, but for small pieces of black album remains on back at bottom away from writing.
Minimum Bid $500.
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 Lot 36. Rare Group of 6 N557 Little Rhody National Sports and 2 other similar cards. All with women in baseball designs. All the Little Rhody have a monthly (August or September) baseball schedule on the rear for the 1892 National League schedule. 3 of the cards are excellent, 2 are very good with a pinhole and the sixth is good with 2 pinholes. The other two cards are similar designs, one is a Buchner with "Baseball" scripted on the front (vg) and the final card is an S.W. Venable Tobacco Co. under their Ideal brand (vg-ex). A great group.
Minimum Bid $400.
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 Lot 37. N172 Old Judge A.C. Anson, Chicagoes. An 1888 card of the Chicago Captain. Magnificent photo quality with some roughness on the back caused from being glued in an album. Tough card to grade but I was proud to have it in my collection for 20 years.
Minimum Bid $1,250.
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 Lot 38. N172 Old Judge Dan Brouthers, Boston. 1889 card showing Brouthers after the move from Detroit. Extraordinary photo, thin borders as issued. Clean back. Excellent +.
Minimum Bid $400.
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 Lot 39. N172 Old Judge Pete Browning. The original "Louisville Slugger". Beautiful photo quality on this 1888 card. Clean back and cut close at bottom. Excellent.
Minimum Bid $750.
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 Lot 41. N172 Old Judge Hugh Duffy, Chicago. 1888 card of the long time player. One of the few players in both N172 and T206. Nice photo, very well centered and a clean back. Excellent.
Minimum Bid $400.
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 Lot 42. N172 Old Judge James O’Rourke, New York. Beautiful card of the Giant Hall of Famer from the 1887 numbered (0321) series. Catching pose, well centered, clean back, extremely nice photo quality.
Minimum Bid $500.
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 Lot 43. N172 Old Judge Charles Radbourn, Boston. The Hall of Fame pitcher is tagging HOF candidate Bill Nash in this posed Old Judge shot from 1888. Well centered, good photo quality and a clean back. Ex+.
Minimum Bid $600.
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