Accession No.: 06_06_000151

Title: Chicago Cubs team picture, 1906

Caption: Chicago National League Ball Club 1906 - The "Cubs" -- Pennant Winners

Date: 1906

Format: postcard

Description: Postcard of the 1906 Chicago Cubs team. Players are identified as: Top Row, left to right: M. Brown, J. Pfeister, A. Hofman, C.G. Williams (Secretary-Treasurer), O. Overall, E. Reulback, J. Kling. Middle Row: H. Gessler, J. Taylor, H. Steinfeldt, J. McCormick, F. Chance, J. Sheckard, P. Moran, F. Schulte. Bottom Row: C. Lundgren, T. Walsh, J. Evers, J. Slagle, J. Tinker. Pen annotation on front of postcard: "Tinker-Evers to Chance, 1906" refers to famous poem by Franklin Pierce Adams entitled, "Baseball's Sad Lexicon." The names of the three players have been underlined. Pen annotation on back of postcard: "Miss Alice E. McGreevy, Roxbury, Mass., from mother & father." Alice McGreevey was the daughter of Michael T. McGreevey.

BPL Collection: McGreevey Collection

BPL Department: Print

Subject: Baseball--History