I keep running into fascinating Dodgers ephemera at Lelands most recently closed auction, and as long as that continues I'll be sure to share what I find. Featured here is a vintage leaflet/program detailing various upcoming events at Ebbets Field for the latter months of the 1919 year. It did not sell at Lelands recent auction. (
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As you will recall, 1919 has a spacial place in Baseball history -- and not for the right reason. This was the year of the infamous Black Sox scandal -- when a clearly superior Chicago White Sox team lead by Shoeless Joe Jackson and Eddie Collins surprisingly lost to the Edd Roush and the Cincinnati Reds in what we now know was a fixed match. Eight ballplayers; including the great Shoeless Joe, would subsequently be banned from the game a couple years later.
As for the Dodgers, they were bad... Really, bad. They finished the season in 5th place (69-71) and a full 27 games behind the Reds. The season had an inauspicious start when they traded away one of their most productive and popular players, first baseman Jake Daubert, to the Reds before spring. He would eventually help lead the World Series bound Reds to a championship.
