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1866 Harper’s Baseball Woodcut Featuring “Athletic” and “Atlantic” Players.
Lot 15. 1866 Harper’s Baseball Woodcut Featuring “Athletic” and “Atlantic” Players. Philadelphia was a central part of baseballs’ earliest history. Amateur teams probably started playing there as early as 1830. In 1860, James N. Kerns formed a club, simply named “Athletic Base Ball Club.” “Athletic” (Base Ball Club was dropped) soon dominated amateur play in the area. The Nov. 3 Harper’s Weekly chronicles a championship match between the “Athletic of Philadelphia” and “Atlantic of Brooklyn” and contains the publication’s fourth baseball woodcut print. The score was “Athletic” 32, “Atlantic” 12. The famous Harper’s illustration shows the Athletic players in uniforms with the familiar Old English “A” on the front. The Atlantic players have “ABBC” on their uniforms. The nm+ woodcut is double-matted and framed to 20” x 15”.
Winning Bid $125.
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