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1882 Star Bloomer Girls Baseball Advertising Poster
The finest girls baseball piece extant. Explosive 33x21" brilliant full color lithograph of the most important girls baseball team of the early years. "Look Who's Coming," advertises this fabled club. Features a lascivious carnival barker who is a sea of question and wonderment right down to his wicked gold tooth. He trumpets and cajoles for the "STAR BLOOMER GIRLS Ladies Champion Base Ball Club Of The World." He even dares you, "Are You Going to See The Girls Play Ball!" Just so you have no other reservations he suggests (as if the opposite were actually true), "Strictly Moral and Refined …Ladies Especially Invited." He actually answers this himself in a cartoon balloon "Sure Mike" as if in a purely sarcastic tone. Even then they were actually selling sex here as detailed in the film, A League of Their Own. The colors and graphics are magnificent. The quality is incredible with graphics akin to the spectacularly colorful circus posters of the day. The bottom is a separately printed but attached 21x7" broadside with another tiny poster with the date and team they are "vs." pasted over. Advertises the "Star Bloomer Girls Ladies Champion Base Ball Club" versus the "Livermore Falls" team of New York on Wednesday, July 19th. [Based on the graphics and the perpetual calendar 1882 is likely the year.] The stadium grandstand graphics at top seals the deal. This is 100% original and unrestored. A couple of very minor tiny tears to the edges but the colors are like new and as vivid as a sunny day at the Elysian Fields. Most importantly, we have never seen anything like this poster in all of our years and may never again. A piece in the baseball pantheon. Lock it up and throw away the key.
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