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Rare Carte de visite ( cdv) photograph of one Charlie Guth enjoying some local brew and stew. This is the same Charlie Guth, who made his notch in baseball history for the Chicago White Stockings ( Sox).
On September 30, 1880, in his only appearance in a professional base ball game, a 24-year-old Chicagoan whose previous athletic accomplishments occurred in performances in local amateur base ball contests took the mound for the professional Chicago White Stockings in a game that had little relevance to anyone or anything beyond delivering a favor to a local sporting-goods company owner.
Offering a work history as an engraver’s apprentice and shirt cutter, he tossed a complete-game victory, ensuring that the locals finished the 1880 season of the National League with a 15-game margin.
*This great portrait of Charlie was taken at 16 Alaska Street in Chicago.
