Bert Mallory, Toledo, Ohio Vintage Photos, 1920
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Includes old sports photos of Toledo, Ohio athletes - baseball, basketball, track, and football. Some images are attached to album pages with photograph mounting corners. Others are unmounted and/or became loose from album pages. Like many early 20th century stand-out athletes, Bert Mallory apparently played multiple sports before landing a spot on this professional basketball team. These images are quite early in the history of professional basketball and scant information is available however I did find that the Red Men Tobaccos were a member of both the National Basketball League and the American Basketball League. During the 1929/1930 NBL playoffs they were the NBL Champions.
Some photographs have ink written identification on their fronts including:
It is interesting that an image of boxing promoter Suey Welsh of Akron Ohio appears in this archive. Perhaps manager Al Cannon tapped into his friend's street saavy talents as a more experienced sports promoter to better market his fledgling professional basketball team? The James Perkins Thorpe letterhead is loosely inserted in the album and puzzles me. The well known Native American Jim Thorpe played football at Carlisle PA and recent information surfaced that he also played for an undetermined "barnstorming" basketball team in Ohio. I cannot find confirmation of a connection to the letterhead with the "Perkins" name association....was it a middle name? Mother's maiden name? no connection at all? Is Jim Thorpe's Indian ancestry and Ohio basketball connection merely a coincidence to this possibly unrelated letter included in this "Redmans" basketball team grouping? (This grouping would benefit from further research by someone more experienced in the history of Basketball.) The album appears to be part of a larger grouping as pages are numbered in the upper right corner with this album's first page numbered "39".
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Soiling and paper abrasions. Scuffs, creases and tears to some images. Adhesive and paper residue on the backs of some views. Photos have become loose from some of the pages.
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Bert Mallory, Toledo, Ohio Vintage Photos, 1920
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