Our astute friend and fellow hobbyist Tom Daley made a great catch last week when it comes to the issue of the medal Jim Thorpe is wearing in our Real Photo Postcard. After much enlargement and enhancement, we felt fairly confident that on Thorpe’s chest, we saw this: This is a pedal from the Penn …
A few days ago we posted about a pair of real photo postcards featuring Jim Thorpe and his friends at the Carlisle Indian School, circa 1908. In researching the postcard we had identified the sender of the postcards as Joe Charley, who wrote notes to his sisters on each of the two postcards – one …
It took us a couple of weeks to begin to entertain the idea that perhaps the “guy in the middle” of this postcard was, perhaps, not a pro ballplayer. First, we thought he might be a minor leaguer, or someone given a tryout with the Pirates or something of that nature. He seemed a little …
A few months ago, acclaimed documentarian Errol Morris interviewed Al from LOTG about the weirder side of collecting. A small part of the interview was featured in Most Valuable Whatever, one in a series of six documentary shorts directed by Morris under the umbrella of “It’s Not Crazy, It’s Sports.” The series has been airing on …
