Major League Lefty in Buffalo Yearbook

Warren Spahn, the left-handed baseball pitcher, didn’t actually graduate from South Park High School when a career in sports intervened. The Cy Young Award winner, who played for 21 years in the National League and has the distinction of having been the left-handed pitcher to win the most games in his career (363), is shown here in the South Park Dial yearbook from 1939, just three years before his debut in the Major League.

My Funny Valentine, and others…

For this blog entry we will take one final dip into the Holiday and Post Card collections. While the history of Valentine’s Day may have begun with the Roman Empire, the picturesque expressions of romantic sentiment most likely started during the Middle Ages with the literary concept of courtly love.

Be my Valentine and I’ll break the news to Mother, n.d.

Many of the post cards from the late 19th to the early 20th centuries presented quaint sentiment to a loved one with flowers, cherubic figures and beautiful maidens.

All For You My Valentine, postmarked 1911

True Love’s Offering, postmarked 1903

To My Love, postmarked 1905

More elaborate cards were considered Art Valentines and were often intricate and colorful.  Here is just a small selection from our collections.

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