Lot # 336: c.1915 Comiskey Park Real Photo Postcard w/Blackburne, Felsch, Schalk (HOF), & Leibold

Category: Baseball Postcards

Starting Bid: $100.00

Bids: 20 (Bid History)

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Item was in Auction "Spring, 2024 Premier Auction",
which ran from 3/11/2024 12:00 AM to
3/30/2024 9:00 PM



Interesting real photo postcard dating to 1915, featuring a photo of newsboys from the Milwaukee Leader newspaper presenting dolls to Lena Blackburne, Hap Felsch, Ray Schalk and Nemo Leibold.  Charles Comiskey hosted more than a hundred Milwaukee Leader newsboys at a doubleheader on July 11, 1915.  According to the Chicago Tribune, they "rooted hard for the Milwaukee graduates - Schalk, Blackburne, Felsch and Liebold.  At the start of the second game there four players were presented doll babies by the president of the Newsboys' association."  The postcard has received a grade of GOOD 2 from SGC, due largely to surface soiling and corner wear.  The only example of this very unusual postcard we have ever seen, featuring a Hall of Fame catcher in Schalk, and one of the "Eight Men Out" in Hap Felsch.

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