Kentuckiana Digital Library > images > Fred Beck of the Boston Nationals. (Frederick Thomas Beck (1886-1962). Color portrait of Fred Beck framed by two baseball bats. A 'B' is in the top left corner and 'Rustlers' is in the top right corner. The team is the Boston Rustlers (1911), formerly the Boston Doves. Verso: Frederick T. Beck. Fred Beck, the hard hitting outfielder, was sold to the Cincinnati Reds by the Boston Nationals in February, 1911. Beck started as a pitcher with the Bloomington Club of the Three I League, but being tried in the outfield was such a success that he was kept there. In 1908 he put in part of a season with the San Francisco team, and was then drafted by Boston. In 1910 he did some very heavy batting for that team, including 32 doubles, 9 triples and 10 home runs in his 157 hits. Includes statistics for 1909-1910. Base Ball Series 400 Designs. Piedmont The Cigarette of Quality. Factory No. 25, 2d Dist. VA.)

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Fred Beck of the Boston Nationals. (Frederick Thomas Beck (1886-1962). Color portrait of Fred Beck framed by two baseball bats. A 'B' is in the top left corner and 'Rustlers' is in the top right corner. The team is the Boston Rustlers (1911), formerly the Boston Doves. Verso: Frederick T. Beck. Fred Beck, the hard hitting outfielder, was sold to the Cincinnati Reds by the Boston Nationals in February, 1911. Beck started as a pitcher with the Bloomington Club of the Three I League, but being tried in the outfield was such a success that he was kept there. In 1908 he put in part of a season with the San Francisco team, and was then drafted by Boston. In 1910 he did some very heavy batting for that team, including 32 doubles, 9 triples and 10 home runs in his 157 hits. Includes statistics for 1909-1910. Base Ball Series 400 Designs. Piedmont The Cigarette of Quality. Factory No. 25, 2d Dist. VA.) 1911 KLGART-BRECHER-ULAL-Beck Leonard Brecher Tobacco & Chewing Gum Card Collection University of Louisville Baseball cards; Athletes; Baseball players; Boston Braves (Baseball team) Beck, Frederick Thomas Beck, 1886-1962 Trade cards; Cigarette cards American Tobacco Company (publisher) http://kdl.kyvl.org/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=kyead;idno=ul_brecher http://name.kdl.kyvl.org/KLGART-BRECHER-ULAL-Beck klgsc/brecher/beck This digital resource may be freely searched and displayed. Permission must be received for subsequent distribution in print or electronically. Physical rights are retained by the owning repository. Copyright is retained in accordance with U. S. copyright laws. Please go to http://kdl.kyvl.org for more information. image/jpg ENG - English image Leonard Brecher Tobacco & Chewing Gum Card Collection: UL_BRECHER: Base ball series 400 designs, Piedmont: approximately 1.5 x 2.625 in. color photomechanical print. Leonard Brecher Tobacco and Chewing Gum Card Collection, University of Louisville Margaret M. Bridwell Art Library.: digitized 9-29-2010 UL