Magnificent 1913 World's Series Newsreel Large Poster from the Casey Stengel Collection. Arguably the crown jewel of the treasure trove that is The Casey Stengel Collection is this never-before-seen poster advertising the film footage of the historic October 1913 meeting of the Philadelphia Athletics and the New York Giants. Each considered among the finest baseball teams ever assembled, and certainly near the top of the Dead Ball list, they boasted talent pools that read like a who's who of Cooperstown: Home Run Baker, Eddie Collins, Chief Bender, Eddie Plank, Christy Mathewson and Rube Marquard to name a few. And, of course, featured prominently in their own large circular portrait windows are the two greatest baseball minds of the era, John "Mugsy" McGraw and Cornelius "Connie" Mack. Below these portraits they appear once more in exceptional team photographs, Mack in his unmistakable black suit and hat, and McGraw sitting beside his star pitcher Matty. Fabulous art deco font announces, "1913 World's Series Base Ball Games, Giants vs. Athletics, Champions, Commercial Motion Pictures Co. (Inc.). In the bottom border is the printer's mark, reading "Cooke & Joste, The Metro Litho. Co. N.Y."
To give some notion of the scarcity of this piece, we printed a facsimile of the poster to scale to display at the National Sports Convention in Chicago in July, where it was viewed by essentially every top expert in the hobby. Hundreds of collectors absolutely fawned over it, many making offers to buy our copy. Not a single person had ever seen this poster before, or frankly, anything from the era that bore even a passing resemblance. A search of results of all major auctions in the past five years also finds nothing similar. So our thanks must go out to young Casey, a twenty-two year old Dodgers rookie at the time, for hanging onto this remarkable artifact and ensuring its survival almost a century later.
While it is almost sacreligious to throw even a single stone at a piece of this beauty and scarcity, we must note certain flaws in condition. As the images attached to this listing will truthfully attest, the display value is absolutely first-rate, but heavy fold lines still remain despite an ancient linen-backing, and the border area shows a definite degree of wear with some paper loss and tack holes that do not infringe upon the colored areas of the poster. Toning and minor moisture staining also remains confined almost entirely to the border region. Again, none of this can put even the slightest damper on the majesty of this offering. A kingly one-sheet poster, 27x41" in size.

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