Historical Hockey Memorabilia Auction Winter 2019
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/26/2019
Registering 8 wins and only a pair of losses in 1911-12, the Princeton Tigers hockey team would be lead by freshman superstar Hobey Baker. We have an original cabinet photo of the 1911-12 Princeton hockey team featuring Baker. At approx 4 ½” x 7”, the full team is pictured on-ice, with a large broadside schedule in the background. The player’s appear especially dapper, in full suits, with captain Baker seated second from the left. Affixed to a two-tone mount at full dimensions of roughly 6” x 9”, “Princeton Hockey Team” and “1912” have been written along the base in fountain pen, with this repeated over the reverse.
The photo exhibits moderate to heavier wear, with low clarity, with the visages of most hard to distinguish. There is a small indentation from the reverse over the right side and wear along the left, with toning, dirt staining, paper loss and edge tears to the mount.
Earning almost mythical status and heavily collected despite the intervening century since his passing, Hobart Amory Hare Baker was born in Pennsylvania just before the close of the Victorian era, in 1892. Hailing from a prominent Philadelphia family and the epitome of an attractive blond-haired All-American, Hobey excelled at sport while attending St. Paul's School in Concord, later starring on both the ice rink and gridiron for Princeton. Three successful years would be spent in the Ivy League, with his most notable accomplishments never fumbling a punt for the Tigers, and never losing to Yale. Baker would then add heroics to his growing legend, receiving the Croix de Guerre from the French government for his service as a fighter pilot during the Great War, later losing his life in December of 1918 during a test flight. Widely recognized by contemporaries as one of the greatest natural athletes, Baker would be one of the first nine players inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame upon its founding in 1945, and the only American.
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