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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bakersgma, post: 51506, member: 59&quot;]Scout - Let me try this one a different way</p><p><br /></p><p>Tobias is talking about a set of &quot;world series&quot; games that he and a group of other students at Concordia held in 1916 to play &quot;as if&quot; their two teams were the two actual professional teams playing in the 1916 World Series between The Boston Red Sox and The Brooklyn Robins. Tobias played on the team that was &quot;representing&quot; Brooklyn.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Tobias lived in Clayton, South Dakota when growing up and playing baseball there with Joe (to whom he is writing and who apparently is part of the group in the picture,) He has mixed memories of his time playing ball with Joe and the stats of the &quot;World Series&quot; games he had just played in St. Paul at school.</p><p><br /></p><p>Real photo postcards were not <u>only</u> made by a local photographer from pictures he himself had taken. Anyone could bring a picture in to be printed on the postcard stock. And it appears from what we have pieced together, that this is what happened here. Tobias took in a picture of his old Clayton team, had it printed and then wrote his message to Joe.</p><p><br /></p><p>It certainly seemed at first glance that the picture was of the team he talked about playing the &quot;world series&quot; with. But since, as you&#039;ve pointed out, the Clayton in Minnesota was not connected with Concordia (or even in existence perhaps in 1916) we had to see what connected Joe and Tobias to &quot;Clayton.&quot; That newspaper page linked above did the trick, even though a bit by accident.</p><p><br /></p><p>I hope that helped. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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