[Promotional Brochure]: Ye New Georgia Chain Gang Announce Their First New England Tour. East Coast's Newest and Most Outstanding Baseball Club Presenting the Best in Baseball and Comedy

(Somerville, MA): Ye New Georgia Chain Gang, (1950).

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Softcover. One quarto leaf folded to make four pages. Faint vertical crease and some modest foxing, else near fine. A brochure announcing the formation of a new (and apparently short-lived) comic barnstorming baseball team. Front cover photo shows the warden, with bat and pistol, holding two players, with mitts and dressed in convict stripes, at bay. The players (as listed) were a combination of minor league stars and retired journeyman major leaguers, and including Charley Osgood (ex-Dodgers), Sam Gentile (ex-Braves), Ray Martin (ex-Braves), Lou Belanger, etc. The team seems to be an offshoot of barnstormers the New England Hoboes, and includes a former Kokomo Clown as well. Whether the tour came off is not clear, as we can find no further information about the 1951 team, although they did make a number of appearances at Fenway Park in the MAyaor's charity field Day later in the 1950s. *OCLC* references no copies of this brochure.

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Item #85098 [Promotional Brochure]: Ye New Georgia Chain Gang Announce Their First New England Tour. East Coast's Newest and Most Outstanding Baseball Club Presenting the Best in Baseball and Comedy