19502

1900 Chicago Orphans Brooklyn Superbas Program

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1900 Chicago Orphans Brooklyn Superbas Program
<B>1900 Chicago Orphans vs. Brooklyn Superbas Official Scorecard .</B></I> No need to explain to collectors just how scarce is this century-old scorecard, issued to a fan at the West Side Grounds of Chicago, where the Chicago Nationals resided before taking on its ursine moniker and moving to Wrigley. Meeting the future Cubs this day was the future Dodgers, assembling an array of Dead Ball Hall of Famers to include Frank Chance, Hughie Jennings, Joe Kelley and "Wee Willie" Keeler. Clean pencil notations in the center recount a fierce pitcher's battle that saw the hometown team sneak away with a one to nothing victory. The eighteen pages of the program offer a fascinating look at life, baseball and otherwise, in the final year of the nineteenth century, with various stories and statistics of recent play, and advertisements that hawk bicycles and rather dubious medical cures. The cover is especially gorgeous, with its full color lithography and the year boldly announced. Short of a horizontal center crease from having been folded in half, the scorecard remains in remarkably fine condition, with no tearing or staining, and the stapled binding still intact and tight. Your wait for another specimen will likely be in vain, and for a finer one it certainly will. <BR><BR><B>Important notice:</B> Heritage usually auctions material at the rate of 200-250 lots per hour. On some occasions eBay Live bid software or the Internet may not be able to keep up with the pace of the auction. We recommend placing a realistic absentee bid now as insurance to avoid disappointment. Occasionally the auctioneer may eliminate or reject an eBay Live bid, and the auctioneer may also reopen a lot after the close of the eBay live bidding (usually because we missed an audience bid), and may reject your bid even if it shows you as the winning bidder. By bidding via eBay Live, you agree that Heritage may award the lot to another bidder at its sole discretion under the circumstances described above or any other reasonable circumstances. Since eBay bids are not shown to us until we open the lot on the floor, we treat those bids just like floor bids. In most cases the floor responds before the eBay bid is presented to us, due to Internet lag time, so for consistency we have made it a policy that floor bids are always considered first over tie eBay live bids. Also please note that all Heritage lots purchased through eBay Live carry a 22.5% Buyer's Premium. Please make sure you read the Terms and Conditions before you bid. This lot is being auctioned in conjunction with a live floor auction by Heritage Galleries & Auctioneers. All final auction and invoice information will be supplied by Heritage Galleries & Auctioneers, and all other information should be considered preliminary. Lot:19502 <BR><BR><B>Winning Notification and Billing:</B> After the FINAL session in this auction is complete, Heritage will send e-mail and snail mail invoices. This process normally takes several days. All final auction and invoice information will be supplied by Heritage Galleries & Auctioneers, and all other information should be considered preliminary. <BR><BR>This auction will be conducted on a live auction floor and over the Internet through eBay Live. If you choose to place an absentee bid, please take a moment to <font color='#0000ff'><u><a href='http://pages.ebay.com/liveauctions/help/before/laabsentee.html'>learn how eBay Live absentee bidding works</a></u></font><font color='#000000'>