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19th Century Bloomer Girls Baseball Advertising Poster
This beautiful, gigantic advertising poster is the finest girls baseball piece extant. An excellent piece for hanging! Explosive 31x44" (in frame) brilliant full color lithograph of the most important girls baseball team of the early years. Named after the loose fitting Turkish style uniform trousers designed by Amelia Bloomer, the "Star Bloomer Girls" were made up of mostly females and they would barnstorm all across America challenging local town, semi-pro, and minor league men's teams. Playing solid ball, they frequently won. Future St. Louis superstar, Rogers Hornsby, got his start in this gender tolerant league. "Look Who's Coming" advertises this fabled club. The ad features a lascivious carnival barker who is a sea of questions 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 at that time 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 peerlessly 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. Surrounded by a gorgeous wooden frame. Mint condition! Lock it up and throw away the key.
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