Nick-theCut
I live for the CABE
The golden era of baseball is defined as
The years between 1920-1960's. Prior to this era, more around WWI, you had what they call "the Dead Ball era"
With baseball dating back as far as our beautiful antique and vintage bicycles, I thought it would be fun to dig up some pictures and stories of Americas two favorite past times.
This has been on my mind for awhile, but was spurred on by this years celebration of 100 years of baseball at Chicago's Wrigley Field.
The Cubs threw an amazing commemorative ceremony before a game. Olde timey music was playing and some guests dressed in period clothes. It really took me back and all I wanted to do was flip through my 1914 Ranger Bicycles catalog.
I'd like to keep this to the earlier days. I'm not interested what kind of bike Derek Jeter rides on the weekend, or a asterisk conversation comparing Lance Armstrong to Alex Rodriguez.
I'm talking Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Ted Williams into the 60's if you like. You know, cut it off when bicycles start to be less classic
I'm excited to see what gets dug up.
The coolest image I've found so far is this that of the most talked about baseball slugger of all time, "The Babe"
George Herman "Babe" Ruth Jr. was born in 1895 and his debut in baseball in 1914 with the Red Sox. It was said that He spent his first professional baseball paycheck on buying a bicycle. This is said to be him in 1914 at spring training.
Other fun ones of him:
~ Nick
The years between 1920-1960's. Prior to this era, more around WWI, you had what they call "the Dead Ball era"
With baseball dating back as far as our beautiful antique and vintage bicycles, I thought it would be fun to dig up some pictures and stories of Americas two favorite past times.
This has been on my mind for awhile, but was spurred on by this years celebration of 100 years of baseball at Chicago's Wrigley Field.
The Cubs threw an amazing commemorative ceremony before a game. Olde timey music was playing and some guests dressed in period clothes. It really took me back and all I wanted to do was flip through my 1914 Ranger Bicycles catalog.
I'd like to keep this to the earlier days. I'm not interested what kind of bike Derek Jeter rides on the weekend, or a asterisk conversation comparing Lance Armstrong to Alex Rodriguez.
I'm talking Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Ted Williams into the 60's if you like. You know, cut it off when bicycles start to be less classic
I'm excited to see what gets dug up.
The coolest image I've found so far is this that of the most talked about baseball slugger of all time, "The Babe"
George Herman "Babe" Ruth Jr. was born in 1895 and his debut in baseball in 1914 with the Red Sox. It was said that He spent his first professional baseball paycheck on buying a bicycle. This is said to be him in 1914 at spring training.
Other fun ones of him:
~ Nick
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