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1952 Roy Campanella All-Stars vs. Negro American League All-Stars Broadside
Displayed is a 1952 broadside promoting a barnstorming baseball game between the Roy Campanella All-Stars and the Negro American League All-Stars at the famous minor league ballpark called "Sulfur Dell" in Nashville, Tennessee, on Oct. 18, 1952. Before the advent of astounding salaries and ubiquitous agents, after the completion of the season, baseball players, including many Major Leaguers, would often join a barnstorming team, a fairly informal grouping of players who would travel the country either playing local competition or meeting another traveling team. A broadside is an advertising poster, usually made of thick paper or cardboard, that would be placed in stores, bars, gas stations, and on telephone poles to promote the off-season barnstorming. As this broadside shows, Roy Campanella's team was loaded with talent. The display reads, "BASEBALL/Major League Attraction/Roy Campanella All-Stars vs Negro American League All-Stars/Sulphur Dell/Nashville, Tenn. SAT 8:00 P.M. Oct 18 Gen. Adm. Adults $1.25, Children 50c, Tax Inc./Nashville Sports Enterprise Promotion." The poster has black and white photos of six of the Roy Campanella All-Stars, plus the players' names and Major League team: Roy Campanella (Dodgers); Joe Black (Dodgers); Larry Doby (Indians); Monty Irvin (Giants); Hank Thompson (Giants); and Harry Simpson (Indians). In blue ink, an unknown hand has written "Cleveland" underneath the Doby photo and an unknown hand, in blue ink, has put an "X" over the Simpson photo, and in an apparent way to make a correction, has written "Don Newcomb[e] Brooklyn" under the Simpson photo. The players on the broadside were real stars: Larry Doby was the first African American player in the American League; Roy Campanella was the National League MVP in 1951, Monty Irvin was the New York Giants' first African American player, and Campanella and Joe Black had earlier that month been in the World Series, losing to the Yankees. The poster has a few tiny smudges, some small stains, and vertical and horizontal creasing from being folded, but it still displays beautifully. It's a broadside chock full of history and vintage nostalgia. Measures 14x22".
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