Spring Premier Auction 2015
Wed, Apr 8, 2015 08:00PM EDT - Mon, Apr 27, 2015 12:30AM EDT
Timed Auction
Lot 189
1913 HOMESTEAD GRAYS LARGE FORMAT TEAM CABINET PHOTO WITH CUM POSEY
Sold for
$3,000
Sold Price includes BP
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This lot features an extremely rare original large-format team-cabinet photo of the Homestead Grays dating from 1913. Fifteen team members are pictured posing together on the field including Hall of Famer and team founder Cumberland Cum Posey who is pictured in the middle row third from the left. The caption along the bottom of the photo reads: "Homestead Grays/Champions of Homestead & Vicinity 1913." This is an extraordinarily historic photo and could be the earliest team photo of the legendary Homestead Grays in existence. The Homestead Grays club was officially founded in 1912 by Posey who after his playing days with the club built the team into one of the most prominent Negro League clubs of all time. Homestead was a steel town in Pennsylvania and the black mill workers created as a recreational activity a ball team that would eventually thrill baseball fans for years. From 1912 through the early 1930s under the leadership Posey the Grays traveled extensively throughout the east as an independent ball club. They were known as barnstormers who would play ball in hundreds of small towns usually taking on and beating the best local baseball talent available white or black. The photo measures 10 wide by 8 high and is affixed to a cabinet-card mount. The mount measures 14 wide by 11 high and shows some deterioration in the top corners and bottom left but otherwise the photo itself is in very good condition.
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