Opening Day Auction Closing May 9th
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/10/2015
This 1894 Boston Elks program features King Kelly, who played in various professional American baseball leagues in the late 1800s. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee in 1945. Kelly is often given credit for helping to popularize an assortment of baseball strategies as a player such as the hit and run, the catcher’s practice of backing up first base and the hook slide. Listed on the front cover, this souvenir program from Castle Square Theatre is dated from the, “week beginning November 12, 1894.” Also listed on the cover from this Order of Elks program, list’s this event as the, “seventeenth annual benefit, in the aid of the charity fund of Boston Lodge No.10.” Inside the program it details the history of the Order of Elks and it features photographs of various performers of the theater as well as a variety of advertisements from in and around the Boston area. On the next to last page is a picture of Michael J. “King” Kelly in a Boston baseball uniform of the time.