by Paul Tenpenny
100 years ago, photographer Sumner W. Matteson's camera captured a baseball game at Athletic Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (later to be re-named Borchert Field). One of the resulting photos was colorized and turned into a great postcard.
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Athletic Park exterior, 1909
100 years ago, photographer Sumner W. Matteson's camera captured a baseball game at Athletic Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (later to be re-named Borchert Field). One of the resulting photos was colorized and turned into a great postcard.
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![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL4PjF69NPbfVzprFnLaBA5PpKO6rLObt4IvJRiAzeNyiC5AZRbCrQ38Iv1lfKGEn0bM5Pltwi1AhI754FRn_lFREAENA9kmPLmc_S9twTzx917G5Cl09zRNRK4SeVIjUZpcXf-SQNf1I/s400/1909_blatz_field.jpg)
...showing the aftermath of the game.
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Recently obtained sign made from a Val Blatz case
The black and white images are courtesy of the Milwaukee Public Museum.