🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Anyone Recognize the Name of this Boys Baseball Team?

[vscience]

Just curious, what is the name of this boy's baseball team. Team name is written on their jerseys. Back of photo "Kodak Velox Paper". I found it in a wallet with Brooklyn, New York, Franklin K Lane High School card. Possibly 1950s but IDK. Thanks for checking it out!

 

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[Red-Coat]

What I know about baseball could be written on the back of a postage stamp but are the three words "Kodak Velox Paper" printed with each word above the next.... ie are the words "stacked"? If so, that's the format Kodak used from c.1950 through until at least the 1960s and Kodak discontinued Velox paper in 1968. If the words are not "stacked", the paper will be from before that period and likely late 1940s.

 

[vscience]

What I know about baseball could be written on the back of a postage stamp but are the three words "Kodak Velox Paper" printed with each word above the next.... ie are the words "stacked"? If so, that's the format Kodak used from c.1950 through until at least the 1960s and Kodak discontinued Velox paper in 1968. If the words are not "stacked", the paper will be from before that period and likely late 1940s.

IMO.... Velox mark on back is stacked. Photos attached.

 

[Retired Sarge]

Looks like it might read Chieco....

 

[Red-Coat]

IMO.... Velox mark on back is stacked. Photos attached.

Yep. That would put the picture between about 1950-1968.

Seemingly, the Franklin K. Lane High School team used the nickname "Knights", so the picture is either not of their team, or it is their team and the word on the shirts is not a team name. Possibly a maker of sports shirts or a sponsor? Looks like it might be "Cheeco".

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[Red-Coat]

I checked for trademark registrations in the US but the only hit for either "Cheeco" or Chieco" was for "CHIECO SAKU". The trademark owner was a Japanese company and they made various items of clothing, but sportswear is not specifically mentioned. Also, first use in commerce was 1986, so it's not likely to be them.

 

[Blackfoot58]

Cheeco was a recording company in the 1960s. Maybe they sponsored the team. From Carolinas, I believe.

 

[Mackaydon]

As close as I can get:

Don in SoCal

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[Blackfoot58]

Cheeco was a recording company in the 1960s. Maybe they sponsored the team. From Carolinas, I believe.

 

[Bramblefind]

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from 1951-1954 contains references to the Father Chieco Squires. I found a 1994 article in the Staten Island Sunday Advance where a man is telling a story and says that he played on the team and it was part of the Knights of Columbus Baseball League.

 

[Jack873]

I agree that it says "Chieco", but I don't think it's the full name. There is a little more to it that is hidden do to how the players are positioned. If you look at the right shoulder on some of the jerseys there is an extra bit (back row, second from last is most prominent). To me it looks like "Di"? "DiChieco"?

EDIT: Just saw Bramblefinds post and I think he nailed it. The "Di" I was seeing is actually an "Fr".