Baseball Unknown (3 results)

Condition: Excellent. A printed postcard showing the American and Japanese teams that played in the 1934 Japan Tour, a barnstorming baseball tour. Each player is labeled with his autograph. The American team included Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Charlie Gehringer, and Jimmie Foxx; the Japanese team included Eiji Sawamura, Osamu Mihara, Kumeyasu Yajima, and Nobuaki Nidegawa. Organized by politician and media mogul Matsutar? Sh?riki, the Great Japan Tokyo Baseball Club became today's Yomiuri Giants, and is Japan's oldest professional baseball team. The tour and especially Babe Ruth, who hit thirteen home runs in the tour, were wildly popular in Japan. Printed postcard measuring 5 ? x 3 ½ inches.…

Photograph. Condition: Very Good. Original Photograph. 7 1/4 X 6 1/4 Inches. Amazing original cabinet card photograph from the baseball's golden era (circa 1930). Photograph of eleven young men with at least five of them wearing a "Muncy" uniform. Classic pose with at least one young man smoking a cigar and bats of gloves all around. A hint of foxing to borders.…

A portrait of "Mike" Foon Kai-Kee (1903deceased), a Chinese-American college baseball player at Yale University, from Dinuba, California (misspelled as "Dinerba" in the caption). The caption describes the third baseman as "the only Chinese playing on an American University baseball team [.] according to Joe Wood, Yale's head coach, he is a marvel. Nothing gets by him in the field". At the time, Chinese people were persecuted in the USthe Immigration Act of 1924, including the Asian Exclusion Act, had recently been enacted. Yale, however, already had a long history with the Chinese people; Yung Wing graduated in 1854 as the first Chinese person to earn an American university degree, and in 1878 Samuel Wells Williams became the first professor of Chinese language and literature in the US. Of interest to scholars of the Chinese-American experience in the early twentieth century. Slightly curled with some folds at corners, editorial overpainting recto, excellent contrast; overall excellent. Single 8 x 10 inch photograph. Fotograms and date stamps verso with typed news caption affixed. …