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Only known set of “Evening Sun’s Gallery of Famous Baseball Players”.
Lot 2. Only known set of “Evening Sun’s Gallery of Famous Baseball Players”. Each of the 21 supplements measures slightly more than 12” x 9” and represent a beautiful portrait drawing, The artist was Lawrence Semon who has gained some notoriety for a similar group of baseball postcards. The postcards, also extremely rare, include the Giants (which are the same poses) but also players from other teams. It would appear the Evening Sun was a Norwich, New York newspaper, a city not very far from Cooperstown. The 21 subjects, which correspond to the 1913 New York Giant pennant winners, are Manager John McGraw (ex), Coach Wilbert Robinson (ex+), Jim Thorpe (vg-ex), Christy Mathewson (ex), Rube Marquard (vg-ex), George Burns (vg-ex), Doc Crandall (vg), Al Demaree (ex+), Art Fletcher (ex), Art Fromme (ex), Grover Hartley (ex), Buck Herzog (ex), Fred Merkle (ex), Chief Meyers (vg-ex), Red Murray (ex), Moose McCormick (ex), Art Shafer (ex), Fred Snodgrass (vg), Jeff Tesreau (ex), Hooks Wiltse (ex) and Art Wilson (ex). All supplements have some minimal creasing in the corner(s). The Snodgrass is autographed “To Fred Snodgrass Best wishes Laurence Semon” and there is written in blue ink “Fred C. Snodgrass N.Y. Giants”, which is probably an autograph of Snodgrass. Ex-Halper.
Minimum Bid $5,000.
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