May 07, 2020 - Sale 2534

Sale 2534 - Lot 391

Price Realized: $ 281
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(SPORTS--BASEBALL.) Handbill and ticket for the semi-professional Colored Athletics Baseball Club of Jersey City. Handbill, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; moderate wear and staining, mounted on a fragment of a scrapbook page bearing several newspaper clippings on the Colored Athletics. Ticket, 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, minor wear, mounted on a similar scrapbook fragment. [Jersey City, NJ], 3 September and 24 November 1932
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The handbill is for a double-header between the Colored Athletics and the 10th Cavalry of West Point, NY (one of the famed Buffalo Soldier regiments), held at the Jersey City High School field, with a performance by the regiment's trumpet and bugle corps. The ticket is for an off-season benefit event held by the Colored Athletics, a "Masquerade and Civic Dance" featuring "music by Jimmy Wilson's Night Hawks."