Pork chop ...
Pork chop boutonnière. I like it.
Pork chop ...
Bub..."looks like a lady"! Sorry, couldn't pass that up.I ran across this 8x10 photo of cowboys at the local Salvation Army thrift. I didn't need to own it, but took a cell phone pic. Call me "Bub" ...
The original Pistol Pete. Frank Boardman "Pistol Pete" Eaton, at 17yoa became a US Marshal for Judge Isaac Parker, the "hanging judge."
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Well, now I know where the inspiration for this guy came from.
Bub..."looks like a lady"! Sorry, couldn't pass that up.
The two young guys on horseback are probably ladies too.
The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City might have information on the team. It's a great museum & worth your time if you are ever in the area.
http://www.nlbm.com
If you get down south, Jim, you might want to check this one out. I haven't been there yet, but it's on my list as well.
http://birminghamnslm.org/
My guess is the man in the back row wearing the derby is Phil Reid & this is his team.A photo of a St. Paul, MN Negro League team I keep in my office. I've always assumed the men in the bowlers were the owner and manager.
My guess is the man in the back row wearing the derby is Phil Reid & this is his team.
"Black businessman Phil “Daddy” Reid established Minnesota’s first all-black professional ball club, the St. Paul Colored Gophers, in 1907, gathering top talent from Chicago and elsewhere. Home-grown Bobby Marshall became the “star slugger” on the Colored Gophers team in 1909, when the Colored Gophers claimed the championship of black baseball by defeating Rube Foster’s Chicago Leland Giants three games to two. The Colored Gophers barnstormed throughout the Upper Midwest for five years, 1907–1911, bringing a fast and colorful brand of black baseball to towns that had never before seen an African American ballplayer on their local diamonds."
http://sabr.org/research/john-donaldson-and-black-baseball-minnesota
Sorry about that; if I had known I wouldn't have said anything. I was curious myself because the various leagues only ran about 20 yrs total yet accomplished a lot. Now my curiosity is zeroing in on the team owner, Phil Reid. But if I find anything out about him I'll keep it to myself.Thanks, I never took the time to look into it. I preferred the mystery. Thanks for ruining that for me, HJ.
Sorry about that; if I had known I wouldn't have said anything. I was curious myself because the various leagues only ran about 20 yrs total yet accomplished a lot. Now my curiosity is zeroing in on the team owner, Phil Reid. But if I find anything out about him I'll keep it to myself.