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During the 1930s through to the 1940s
the First National Bank of Boston
issued calendar ink blotters. The trade
card/ink blotters illustrated
historical events and "Firsts" of
Boston or Massachusetts, along with a
brief description below. Each calendar
was printed with one month of the year.
This ink blotter features an April 1941
calendar. The card depicts an 1871
baseball game featuring the Boston Red
Stockings playing at South End grounds
ball field where the team would play
until 1914. This was the start of the
Atlanta Braves franchise.
As it reads on the front of this ink blotter: "The first professional;
baseball team in Boston was organized
in 1871. This pioneer nine won four
consecutive and six out of eight
championships in its first eight years.
The first double deck baseball
grandstand in the country was built at
the South End grounds. It burned in the
year 1894."
Established in 1869 the first professional baseball team, the Cincinnati
Red Stockings, voted to dissolve after
the 1870 season. Baseball pioneer,
Player-manager Harry Wright, and his
brother George went to Boston,
Massachusetts to form the Boston Red
Stockings, of the National Association
of Professional Base Ball Players.
Pitcher, and founder of the A.G.
Spalding sporting goods co., Al
Spalding started all 31 of the Red
Stockings' games and led the NA with 19
wins.
After a number of name changes, the franchise eventually became the Boston
Braves from 1912 to 1935, the Bees from
1936 to 1940, and again named the
Braves from 1941 to 1952. Then, in
1953, the team moved to Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, and became the Milwaukee
Braves, followed by the final move to
Atlanta in 1966.
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