Kentuckiana Digital Library > images > Gardner N.Y. Amer. (Earle Gardner or Earle McClurkin Gardner (1884-1943). Color portrait of Earle Gardner framed by two baseball bats. A 'NY' is in the top left corner and 'Yankees' is in the top right. Verso: Earl Gardner. Earl Gardner, second baseman of the New York Americans, first played in organized baseball in Springfield, Illinois, in 1905. In 1906 and 1907 he played with the Austin team of the Texas League, and had averages of .226 and .291 in batting and .976 and .946 in fielding. In 1908 with Hartford he batted .302 and fielded .970. In 1909, made too weak by long illness to work the full season with the Yankees, he played 56 games with Jersey City and batted .294. In 86 games with the New Yorks in 1910 he batted .244 and fielded .939. If he can recover the [p ] strength that his unfortunate illness of 1909 robbed him of, he is expected to equal some of his nine records in the minors. Base Ball Series 400 Designs. Piedmont. The Cigarette of Quality. Factory No. 25, 2d Dist. VA.)

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Gardner N.Y. Amer. (Earle Gardner or Earle McClurkin Gardner (1884-1943). Color portrait of Earle Gardner framed by two baseball bats. A 'NY' is in the top left corner and 'Yankees' is in the top right. Verso: Earl Gardner. Earl Gardner, second baseman of the New York Americans, first played in organized baseball in Springfield, Illinois, in 1905. In 1906 and 1907 he played with the Austin team of the Texas League, and had averages of .226 and .291 in batting and .976 and .946 in fielding. In 1908 with Hartford he batted .302 and fielded .970. In 1909, made too weak by long illness to work the full season with the Yankees, he played 56 games with Jersey City and batted .294. In 86 games with the New Yorks in 1910 he batted .244 and fielded .939. If he can recover the [p ] strength that his unfortunate illness of 1909 robbed him of, he is expected to equal some of his nine records in the minors. Base Ball Series 400 Designs. Piedmont. The Cigarette of Quality. Factory No. 25, 2d Dist. VA.) 1911 KLGART-BRECHER-ULAL-Gardner Leonard Brecher Tobacco & Chewing Gum Card Collection University of Louisville Baseball cards; Athletes; Baseball players; New York Yankees (Baseball team) Gardner, Earle McClurkin, 1884-1943 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-Gardner klgsc/brecher/gardner 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