In 1919 the Feicke-Desch Company produced a set of 24 postcards of the National League Champion Cincinnati Reds. The Reds went on, of course, to win the World series from the infamous "Black Sox" that year. Feicke-Desch then reprinted the same 24 cards they had already produced which said "Champions of National League" and changed the wording to World's Champions on them. Both sets are extremely rare and are priced way out of my ability to probably obtain any of them. I have managed to collect images of the complete set of the "Champions of National League" cards plus one of the "World's Champions".
1919 NATIONAL LEAGUE CHAMPIONS
Manager-Pat
Moran LF-Pat
Duncan
CF-Eddie Roush
RF-"Greasy" Neale
The real photo postcard above was obviously taken using the "Greasy" Neale card in the 1st row. It is identical except for the bottom line of text.
1B-Jake
Daubert
2B-Morris
Rath
SS-Larry
Kopf
3B-"Heinie" Groh
Catcher-Bill
Rariden Catcher-Ivy
Wingo Catcher-Nick
Allen
Adolfo
Lugue
"Hod"
Eller
Jimmy
Ring
Ray
Fisher
Roy Mitchell
Right-Handed Pitchers
Eddie
Gerner
Harry
Sallee
"Rube"
Bressler
Walter Reuther
Left-Handed Pitchers
Hank
Schreiber
Jimmy
Smith
Charles
See
Sherwood Magee
Utility Infielders
Utility Outfielders
1919 WORLD'S CHAMPIONS
CF-Eddie Roush
1919 TEAM STATISTICS
On the day the 1919 Reds clinched the pennant some of the team posed, in their locker room, wearing P-Q-A Union Suits. Advertising even back then was a big part of their revenue.
REDS PLAYERS - PRE 1950
*
Steve Filipowicz
Walter
Reuther
"Chuck"
Aleno
Al
Lakeman
Clyde Vollmer
Outfielder-1948
LHP
1917-20
Inf. 1941-1944
Catcher 1942-47 Outfielder 1942-48
Army
1918
Army 19443-45
Clyde Vollmer has a couple of asterisks next to his name. He is the only major leaguer to have 8 at bats in 8 innings and he is among an elite group that hit a home run on the very first pitch he saw in the major leagues.
*
Johnny Vander
Meer LHP
1937-1949
Lloyd Waner
CF. 1941
Of course anyone who knows anything about baseball knows that Johnny Vander Meer is the only Major League pitcher to pitch back-to-back no-hitters. Lloyd Waner was the brother of Paul Waner. The two brothers hold the major league record for hits for siblings. Lloyd had 2,459 hits and Paul had 3,152 Hits.
The eight players on these two postcards all played for the Reds during the 1927 season, so I am going to make a wild assumption and say they were produced in 1927 (although it could be 1928). If some one can tell me what the coupon in the lower left corner is all about, (you had to cut the corner off?), please enlighten me. The four players, in the first card, and the years they played for the Reds are: Hughie Critz-2nd base-1924 to 1930; Curt Walker-outfielder-1924 to 1930; George Kelly-1st base/outfielder-1927 to 1930; and Val Picinich-catcher-1926 to 1928. The players in the second card are: Everett Virgil "Pid" Purdy-outfielder-1927 to 1929; Clarke Alonzo "Pinky" Pittinger-infielder-1927 to 1929; Charles Fred "Red" Lucas-Right Handed Pitcher-1926 to 1933; and Horace Hills Ford-2B & SS-1926 to 1931.
All four are replicas
Billy
Meyers
Harry
Craft
Ival
Goodman
Lonny Frey
S.S.
1935-40
C.F.
1937-42
O.F.
1935-42
2B 1938-46
Frank McCormick 1B 1934, 1937-45
Clyde Shoun
Replica
LHP 1942-47
Clyde Shoun pitched a no-hitter against the Boston Braves on May 15,1944.
Tommy Downey
Jim Weaver
Fred
Toney
Sparky Adams
SS 1909-1911
RHP 1938-39
RHP
1915-1918 INF.
1933-34
Nate Andrews RHP 1946
Chet Carmichael
Wally Shaner
John
Kling
Ray Kolp
RHP-1909
OF/1B-1929
Catcher-1913
RHP-1927-34
The Chester Carmichael card does not look like it does because of a bad scan, that is the way the card looks. He apparently only pitched 2 games for the Reds in 1909 and that was the end of his Major League career for some reason.
