Featured Baseball Stadium Postcards

Discussion in 'Ephemera and Photographs' started by Joe2007, Jan 29, 2020.

  1. Joe2007

    Joe2007 Collector

    Anybody have any baseball stadium postcards? They are my latest collecting rabbit hole I've been exploring recently. They seem to be exceptionally popular probably due to their broad appeal to several subsets of collectors, including baseball/sports collectors, local history collectors, and postcard collectors.

    Below is a really interesting website that has some good information on Red Belt postcards published by the Morgan Stationary Company in Cincinnati, Ohio. They are a very challenging, elusive, and fairly expensive set of postcards published in 1907.

    http://www.vintageball.com/RedBelt.html
    http://www.vintageball.com/BallparkPostcards.html

    Baseball cards really seem to sell well too, so for all of you pickers be on the lookout for them and maybe check out eBay's SOLD listings for more info. I might be going to a few local sports collectables shows too in the future to see if they have any postcards that fit my requirements.

    Any thoughts? Would love to get a discussion going about baseball related postcards and have a few of my own baseball stadium themed postcards to post hopefully tonight.

    Thanks,
    Joe

    @BaseballGames @cxgirl @verybrad and anyone else who would like to add to the discussion.
     
    Last edited: Jan 29, 2020
  2. Joe2007

    Joe2007 Collector

    A few of my baseball stadium postcards
    postcard cincinnati early ballpark grandstand.jpg postcard cincinnati palace of the fans grandstand.jpg postcard cincinnati crosley 01.jpg postcard cincinnati crosley 02.jpg postcard detroit baseball.jpg postcard pittsburgh baseball.jpg
     
  3. BaseballGames

    BaseballGames Well-Known Member

    As always, we recommend checking out Net54baseball [ https://net54baseball.com/ ] and their memorabilia subforum -- several avid and knowledgeable collectors of baseball postcards reside there.
    Actually, there's a whole gigantic thread (almost 1,400 posts) on baseball postcards in their main forum [ https://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=161413 ], although you may have to be signed in there to see the pics.

    Those are a really nice half dozen you've shown here. We collect stadium postcards ourselves, but we've got nothing older than 1960s vintage and have zero expertise in that niche of memorabilia.
     
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  4. Figtree3

    Figtree3 What would you do if you weren't afraid?

    Very nice, Joe! I don't have any, but do like baseball and the history of the ballparks.
     
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  5. Joe2007

    Joe2007 Collector

    A few more stadium cards, both of the old Municipal Stadium in Cleveland torn down in the 1990's. Hosted both the Indians and the Browns (NFL) and had a capacity at times in excess of 80,000.

    postcard cleveland ohio municipal stadium baseball 1.jpg postcard cleveland ohio municipal stadium baseball 2.jpg
     
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  6. Joe2007

    Joe2007 Collector

    Here is a recent pickup that put dent in my pocketbook. It is of an early baseball stadium in Cincinnati where a mound visit in the infield is taking place. Postmarked 1908.
    postcard redbelt in consulatation baseball.jpg

    More info on this site.
    http://www.vintageball.com/RedBelt.html
     
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  7. Figtree3

    Figtree3 What would you do if you weren't afraid?

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