MISS MAUD NELSON   Original circa 1910 or 1911 Baseball Post Card 

Unused Post Card

The only makers mark I see on card is "Cross" on the bottom front of Card

C.1910 shows Miss Maud Nelson in a pitching pose in Olson's Cherokee Indian Baseball Club Uniform

Measures about 3 1/4"x 5 1/2"

Famous Early Professional Women's Baseball Player 

Maud Nelson Born Clementina Brida in Italy 1881 Died in 1944 age 62 Chicago, Ill

Spouse: Joe Olsen 

Occupation: Baseball Player, Coach, Team Owner 

Nelson starred for the Boston Bloomer Girls and American Athletic Girls during the first decade of the 20th Century 

In 1911, Maud became the owner/manager of Western Bloomer Girls,where she worked together with her first husband John B Olson Jr.  Later scouting duties to her impressive resume. By the end of the 1920s Nelson retired from Women's Professional Baseball and she lived in the Wrigley Field, Chicago area until her death in 1944

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