Lot # 415: Outstanding 1911 "Addie Joss Day" Real Photo Postcard w/Hal Chase & Bobby Wallace - SGC FAIR 20

Category: Baseball Postcards

Starting Bid: $300.00

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Item was in Auction "Summer, 2018 Auction",
which ran from 7/26/2018 4:03 AM to
8/12/2018 8:34 AM



On July 24 1911 a host of star ballplayers got together to play in a benefit game to benefit the family of pitcher Addie Joss. One of the game's most respected players Joss had suddenly passed away earlier in the season a victim of tubercular meningitis. Former ballplayer Billy Sunday presided over the funeral and Indians owner Charles Somers worked with the American League owners to organize a benefit game on a day off. Star players assembled in Cleveland (including nine future Hall of Famers) and the game raised nearly $13 000 for the Joss family. Presented is a beautiful real photo postcard from that day taken in the All-Stars dugout featuring Cleveland's George Stovall New York's Hal Chase and the Browns' Bobby Wallace along with Jimmy McAleer by that time manager of the Washington Senators. Though the postcard has been graded FAIR 20 by SGC the image quality is outstanding the majority of the card's wear appearing on the reverse (in the form of soiling and pencil writing that identifies the subjects) and the corners. Simply a beautiful postcard from one of the early examples of baseball banding together for a common cause.

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