WHAT'S NEW?
Although the site still is in-progress throughout, here are the latest additions:
-- 1/2008 - 7/2008: More additions to Player Postcard page and 1907-09 A.C. Dietsche Postcard Gallery
-- 8/2007: Creation of PC796 Sepia Postcards Gallery, additions to Player Postcard page and to the Max Stein Co. Postcard Gallery.
-- 12/2006 - 2/2007: Additions to Player Postcards pages, including cards from such series as Max Stein /
U.S. Publishing House Cards, PC796, Underwood & Underwood, F.P. Burke & more.-- 11/20/06: Complete revamping of Postcard section. Many new issues and galleries added for Player
Postcards pages, including Rose Postcards, Wolverine News, HM Taylor, Dietsche and more.
-- 2/4/06: New spotlight on the Morgan Stationery Co. "Red Belt" postcard set, special feature on the
Player Postcard page. Also added to gallery: 1907 Tecumseh team postcard with Fred Merkle.
-- 6/3/05: New design elements and navigation begin rolling-out.
-- 2/15/05: Major addition: 1922 Herb Hunter All Stars Tour of Japan page, special subsection to
-- 2/15/05: Uploaded new Favorite Find story: "A Father's Explanation" with a nice image of an early
comprehensive Spalding guide.-- 2004: Major additions to the Player Postcard Galleries, including new cards and an analysis of minor
league Rose Company postcards.-- 11/25/03: Major additions to the Player Postcard Galleries, including a spotlght on 1908 team cards
featuring the Pirates, and Minor League cards with Armando Marsans, Rafael Almeida,Home Run Baker, Jake Daubert and many, many more. Uploaded new front page images.-- 10/31/03: Added special grouping of uncataloged 1909 Red Sox supplements to the What's This?
page; uploaded new front page images.
-- 9/04/03: Uploaded new Favorite Find story: "Hunting Uncataloged Big Game In The Online Jungle" with
a great image of an uncatalogued 1910 HOF baseball card.-- 8/01/03: Uploaded New What's This? item -- uncataloged 1932 Babe Ruth premium postcard
-- 7/04/03: Launched Photographs Gallery 1940-69 with Ott, DiMaggio, Mantle, Williams, Maris, The 1953
Yankees and Dodgers, Baseball During World War II and a lot more.
-- 6/29/03: Launched Photographs Gallery 1930-39 with Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, 1931 Tour of Japan,
Dizzy Dean, Connie Mack, Carl Hubbel, and much more.
-- 6/22/03: Uploaded New What's This? item -- uncataloged 1912 Red Sox premium; New homepage.
-- 6/22/03: Launched Photographs Gallery: 1920-29 wth Ruth, Gehrig, Cobb, Speaker, Johnson and more.
-- 6/17/03: Major upload of 1915-1919 section to Photographs Gallery: 1910-1919: including spotlights on Waite Hoyt, the 1918 World Series and much more.
Waite Hoyt, the 1918 World Series and much more.-- 6/15/03: Posted Bob Groom photo to Photographs Gallery: 1900-1909.
-- 6/14/03: Added spotlights on 1913-14 World Tour; the 1914 NY Yankees; and more to the
-- 6/12/03: News photo and major cabinet card additions to Photographs Gallery 1910-1919.
-- 6/11/03: Substantive additions to Photographs Gallery 1910-1919.
-- 6/08/03: More major additions: Launched in-progress Photographs Gallery 1910-1919, along with new
-- 6/04/03: Major additions and revisions: Launched Photographs Gallery 1900-1909, revised 1870-1899
-- 5/29/03: Launched first gallery area (1870-1899) of the Photographs section; Uploaded revised
-- 5/15/03: Uploaded "A Visitor's Tale" front page story; Updated homepage images.
-- 5/06/03: Uploaded New What's This? item -- uncataloged Rabbit Maranville card; Updated homepage.
section, showcasing items from Chief Bender, Marty McHale, Ban Johnson, etc.
-- 3/16/03: Uploaded new Favorite Find story: "Ruth, Cobb, Lindbergh and a Glassine Envelope" with four great images.
-- 3/11/03: Uploaded New March What's This? item; Second February mystery solved!; New front page
images featured.
Philadephia Athletics and Pittsburgh Pirates ballparks with Minor League fields coming soon.
-- 2/23/03: Launched Ballpark Postcard Gallery featuring cards of Boston Braves, Red Sox,
Brooklyn Dodgers, Cubs, White Sox, Indians, Reds, Tigers and New York Giants ballparks. -- 2/13/03: Uploaded new story w/images in "Favorite Finds" section: "A Bing(go) Surprise".
-- 2/12/03: Launched "Real-Photo" Postcard Gallery, featuring major leaguers, minor leaguers, semi-pro
teams, factory teams, town teams and sandlot scenes; Also showcased are "Special
Spotlights" on Cy Young: Photographer, The House of David and the Sanford Independents.
-- 2/08/03 Launched Links Page with addition form for new link requests.
-- 2/05/03: Launched What's This? page, spotlighting unidentified items of the month.
-- 2/04/03: An interim Photographs page posted with 11 unidentified photos of either the Brooklyn
Dodgers or Federal League Tip-Tops.
-- 2/02/03: The first installment of Favorite Finds has been posted, with three more to come.
-- 2/02/03: The Hal Chase Page is completed, featuring a brief synopsis of Chase's career, illustrated
with artifacts from his playing days. A gallery of original photos, supplements and news service
Chase photographs was launched, together with streamlined photo albums that feature Chase
Tobacco, Caramel and Bakery baseball cards. Also included are links to comprehensive
Chase biographical and statistical external Web Sites.
-- 2/01/03: The Player Postcard Gallery was launched as part of the Postcard section. This gallery features
a wide array of rare Pre-WWII printed postcards featuring Major League players and teams.
-- 1/31/03: This What's New Page was launched.
-- 1/29/03: The main Postcard Page was added, featuring information about the history of player, ballpark
and Real-Photo baseball postcards. These sub-sections feature links to soon-to-be added galleries that will include rare cards from each of these three categories.-- 1/27/03: Two new photo albums, depicting ten tobacco and ten caramel & bakery cards, are now
showcased on the in-progress Hal Chase Page. These albums may be slow to load for visitors
with slower connections, as each card is loaded when the navigation buttons are clicked. Once
loaded, however, viewers can click-through these collections rapidly.
-- 1/26/03: VintageBall begins to roll-out under construction on the Web, with the site's homepage
launching first.
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