Rare 1919 Chicago White Sox (vs. Cincinnati Reds) World Series Program - Game 3

Sold For:

$6,600

Year:

1919

Auction:

2018 Fall

Lot #:

2140

Category:

Post-1900 Baseball Memorabilia

Rare and historically significant 1919 Chicago White Sox World Series program scored for Game 3. This is one of the great rarities of all World Series programs and is much scarcer than the 1919 World Series program issued in Cincinnati. While the Reds produced a lavish, large-format fifty-page commemorative program for this series, Comiskey, true to his penurious ways, simply used the standard regular-season program featuring a portrait photo of him on the cover, with the interior scorecards featuring the preprinted lineups for both the Reds and White Sox. Included in the lineup for Chicago are five of the eight conspirators who were later banned from baseball: Weaver, Jackson, Felsch, Gandil, and Risberg. Although the program is not scored, the pitchers names for each team (Kerr for Chicago and Fisher for Cincinnati) have been neatly written in pencil in the appropriate box. Game 3 was the only game in which Kerr and Fisher faced each other during the Series. Kerr, of course, was not one of the conspirators and won both Game 3 and Game 6 for the Sox. One of the added highlights of this twenty-page program is an interior Hillerich & Bradsby advertisement featuring full-length photos of both Joe Jackson and Eddie Collins in endorsement of Louisville Slugger bats. The program (6 x 9 inches) displays a vertical center fold, a small area of light discoloration on the cover, and a few tears along the back cover. The interior scorecard pages have detached from the spine. In Good to Very Good condition overall. Reserve $5,000. Estimate (open).