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.

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.


...showing the aftermath of the game.


Recently obtained sign made from a Val Blatz case
The black and white images are courtesy of the Milwaukee Public Museum.