WALLY ROETTGER Real Photo Postcard 1931 Cincinnati Reds

DATE SHOT: 1931

SUBJECT: Wally Roettger

APPROXIMATE SIZE: 3-1/2"x5-1/2"

COMMENTS / CONDITION: Offered is an approximately 3-1/2"x5-1/2" real photo postcard of Wally Roettger, pictured in his Cincinnati Reds uniform circa 1931. I do not know exactly when this card was produced, but it could not have been earlier than the 1950's judging by the standard Kodak back. Comes from a large collection of such postcards, all having standard postcard backs but being postally unused. The vast majority of cards in this collection rate NM to NM-MT condition, but please see scans of the actual card for further details including condition.

BIO: Walter Henry Roettger was born in 1902 in St. Louis, MO and died in 1951 in Champaign, IL. He went to college at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He played major league baseball from 1927 to 1934 as outfielder for the St. Louis Cardinals, New York Giants, Cincinnati Reds and the Pittsburgh Pirates, and appeared in the 1931 World Series. Roettger was the head coach at Illinois from 1935 to 1951.

SKU: L08272

Item: L08272