Lot # 824: Circa 1924 Oneonta Indians Snapshots Lot of 15

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Item was in Auction "Pre War Sports Cards & Memorabilia VII",
which ran from 11/9/2022 10:00 PM to
11/27/2022 10:00 PM



13 players and two of what appear to be the playing field. All are stamped "City Drug Store Oneonta, NY" in purple on the back. There are period ads for this drug store selling tickets to the games and it is unknown if these are some form of promotional item or just snap shots that were developed at the drug store. They measure approximately 2.75" x 1.75" and many have the player name in pencil on the reverse allowing us to date them roughly to 1924. https://www.statscrew.com/minorbaseball/roster/t-uu15102/y-1924

That season marked a very short-lived tenure in the NY-Penn League for Oneonta. https://www.thedailystar.com/opinion/columns/backtracking-oneonta-had-brief-fling-with-ny-penn-in/article_3b72e77b-0b01-571e-813f-127bdb500d5c.html

The Utica Utes of the NY-Penn league were going under and to preserve the season the league allowed the semi-pro Indians to merge with the Utica team and play the remainder of the games in Oneonta. Unfortunately even though Oneonta had beat Connie Mack's A's in an exhibition game that year, the combined rosters still wasn't competitive and the league decided Oneonta wasn't big enough to financially support a team.

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