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Lot # 325: Chief Bender Pitching Photo by Charles Conlon

Category: The Ring

Starting Bid: $300.00

Bids: 1 (Bid History)

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Item was in Auction "June 2005",
which ran from 5/30/2005 12:00 AM to
6/26/2005 9:00 PM



Immensely rare 5 x 7" snap of HOF pitcher Chief Bender warming up at Baker Bowl in the early 1910s. Bender, one of Connie Mack's aces from 1903-14, was a rarity himself, making it to the bigs as a Native American at a time when the game was kept scrupulously white. On back is Conlon's handwritten notation "Bender, Athletics pitcher." Slightly sepia toned photo is EX+.

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