Kentuckiana Digital Library > images > Thomas Philadelphia Am. (Ira Thomas or Ira Felix Thomas (1881-1958). Color portrait of Ira Thomas with the Philadelphia Athletics. An elephant is in the top left corner and 'Athletics' is in the top right. Verso: Ira Thomas. Ira Thomas, one of the Philadelphia Athletics' regular catchers, got into professional base ball with the Hartfords, of the Connecticut League in 1902. Afterwards he worked behind the bat for Newark and Providence, and in 1906 and 1907 for the New York Highlanders. In 1908 he caught 40 games for the Detroits, and in 1909 entered on his present engagement with the Athletics. His work for them has been of a high order. Examples of it were his throwing out Ty Cobb give times out of six in the last Detroit-Athletic series of 1910, and his masterly handling of pitching in the World's Championship Series with the Cubs. Base Ball Series 400 Designs. Piedmont. The Cigarette of Quality. Factory No. 25, 2d. Dist. VA.)

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Thomas Philadelphia Am. (Ira Thomas or Ira Felix Thomas (1881-1958). Color portrait of Ira Thomas with the Philadelphia Athletics. An elephant is in the top left corner and 'Athletics' is in the top right. Verso: Ira Thomas. Ira Thomas, one of the Philadelphia Athletics' regular catchers, got into professional base ball with the Hartfords, of the Connecticut League in 1902. Afterwards he worked behind the bat for Newark and Providence, and in 1906 and 1907 for the New York Highlanders. In 1908 he caught 40 games for the Detroits, and in 1909 entered on his present engagement with the Athletics. His work for them has been of a high order. Examples of it were his throwing out Ty Cobb give times out of six in the last Detroit-Athletic series of 1910, and his masterly handling of pitching in the World's Championship Series with the Cubs. Base Ball Series 400 Designs. Piedmont. The Cigarette of Quality. Factory No. 25, 2d. Dist. VA.) 1911 KLGART-BRECHER-ULAL-Thomas Leonard Brecher Tobacco & Chewing Gum Card Collection University of Louisville Baseball cards; Athletes; Baseball players; Philadelphia Athletics (Baseball team) Thomas, Ira Felix, 1881-1958 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-Thomas klgsc/brecher/thomas 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