Anchor Steam Baseball old-fashioned embossed metal tacker. 12" x16.5". Holes for wall-mounting.
On March 26, 1903—seven years after Anchor Brewing began making beer on San Francisco’s Russian Hill—the team that would become known as the San Francisco Seals played its first Pacific Coast League game. Paid attendance at Recreation Park, south of Market Street, was 5,235. Ladies were admitted free. San Francisco defeated Portland 7–3, in a 90-minute, 9-inning contest. Six years later, the Seals won their first pennant, with a 132–80 record. By that time, Anchor had moved south of Market, near where it continues to brew San Francisco’s original Anchor Steam® Beer today.
Many of the Seals players were immortalized on baseball cards such as the one reproduced here, from an original 1911 “Obak” card in the Anchor Brewing Collection. Born in Yakima, Washington in 1884, the versatile Royal N. “Hunky” Shaw played in both the infield and the outfield for the Seals. His .281 dead-ball-era batting average earned him the Pacific Coast League batting title in 1910. On May 16, 1908, the 5'8" switch hitter made his only appearance in the majors—as a Pittsburgh Pirate.
