Cardinals spring training mascot scrapbook : scrapbook, 1927-1945, 1931-1938.

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Cardinals spring training mascot scrapbook : scrapbook, 1927-1945, 1931-1938.

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This scrapbook covers the experiences of Quinn Evans, the St. Louis Cardinals spring training "mascot" for four years in the late 1920s and early 1930s. It contains newspaper clippings and photographs, and some of the players that Evans is with include Jim Bottomley, Mickey Cochrane, Dizzy Dean, Paul Derringer, Leo Durocher, Jimmie Foxx, Frank Frisch, Lou Gehrig, Chick Hafey, Babe Herman, Pepper Martin, Joe McCarthy, Johnny Mize, Ernie Orsatti, and Babe Ruth. Some of the major league teams represented in the album include the Boston Braves, Brooklyn Dodgers, Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds, New York Yankees, Philadelphia Athletics and Phillies, and St. Louis Cardinals. It also has some photos of heavyweight champions like Max Baer, Jimmy Braddock, and Joe Louis. There are two letters in the scrapbook as well, both from personnel in the Cardinals organization. One other item of note is a collection of autographs on a sheet of paper, and the players include Joe Cronin, Bob Doerr, Jimmie Foxx, Lefty Grove, Herb Pennock, and Rube Walberg.

1 scrapbook (.10 cu. ft.)

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Evans, Quinn, 1921 -1945,

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Quinn Evans was the St. Louis Cardinals spring training "mascot" in the late 1920s and early 1930s. He suffered a broken knee in 1931 at the age of 11, and while a senior in high school he was in an automobile accident that caused his left leg to be amputated. He began a career in journalism, writing for the New York Herald Tribune, but the complications from the amputation led to an early death in February 1945. From the description of Cardinals spring training mascot scrapbook : sc...