Cracker Jack Ty Cobb collage tree art Representative in Congress From Massachusetts

Representative in Congress From Massachusetts

245492 Baseball Base by John P Corbett (1946) John P

Nadak reads like a fragment recovered from a turn-of-the-century cigarette pack — a tobacco card whose cryptic surname hints at the immigrant ballplayers who filled the rosters of dead-ball America

A wartime portrait of the president in the year the war turned — Antietam in September

Cracker Jack Ty Cobb collage tree art Representative in Congress From MassachusettsCracker Jack Ty Cobb a 1914 candy issue card pulled from a sticky box of caramel corn, its red background bleeding behind the Georgia Peach in his Tigers flannel. Cobb stares out with the same flat, calculating menace that filed his spikes sharp, a portrait of the deadball era's most feared baserunner reduced to a thin slip of sugared cardboard. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and Trademark