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Pirates Manager Frankie Frisch & Unidentified Umpire in Dispute
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Pittsburgh Pirates Manager Frankie Frisch and an unidentified umpire in dispute is one of the first baseball photos I ever kept. It is a story in itself, though the precise history and…
Baseball in Action Photography – Pure Beauty
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This baseball in action photo is pure aesthetics. No one famous, no critical moment, no historical reference, no statistic generated, and look, no one in the stands, either. But check…
Umpire Emmett Ashford Ruling – Do you think the runner is safe?
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Is that what umpire Emmett Ashford is indicating in this thrilling action photo? The caption on the reverse of this Dominican winter league shot confirms our opinion. Felipe Alou of…
End of the Road for Cuban Baseball Player Marsans
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Of the earliest Cuban players in the Major Leagues, Marsans had greatest success, with a career covering eight years, with four different teams. For most of the 1910s he played…
No longer Anonymous – A Professional BaseBall Player? Yes Indeed!
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You can tell a real ball player from a pretender in a photograph. You can also tell a professional from an amateur just from the way they wear their uniform.…
1914 World Series Prologue
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“And what’s that big, pink elephant doing in the left field stands?” asks Boston Braves captain Johnny Evers. The discussion is going on at home plate before game two of…
Carlos Colas Triumphant
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What we know: That’s Carlos Colas riding triumphantly atop a crowd of fans, who carry their hero around the stadium. He had, just minutes before, hit a grand-slam walk off…
What triggered this wild baseball scene?
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The culprit, according to the wire photo caption, was Dodger pitcher Don Drysdale, who sent a fastball a bit too close to Johnny Logan’s head. Logan, who was ready to…
Hurdy-Gurdy Babe Ruth
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Hurdy-gurdy man Babe Ruth stands boldly in profile in this 1922 pre-season New York Yankees photograph. Half the team is wearing the white hats of the 1921 season, as they…
Hy Myers Home Run
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It’s October 9th, 1916, in Fenway Park, Boston. The ball has just left the bat of Brooklyn’s Hy Myers, who knew, immediately at that moment, that he had an extra…
Rochester House of Refuge
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In 1875 the Civil War was still playing out in an enormous orphanage and reformatory in Rochester, New York. The House of Refuge was home to thousands of boys left…
Jimmy Dykes
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This is a Wide World Agency photograph from August 12, 1939. Let me quote from the paper caption on the back: “Detroit Tigers got a kick out of this. When…
Huzzah!
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Most of us have witnessed the scene of re-enacting base ball players, playing the old style game, ending their play with a celebratory cheer, the most common version I have…
Nebraska Indians – Baseball Team
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From what I can tell, there are actually eight Indians amongst the eleven baseball players posing at 314 Second Street in New York City. The team was the Nebraska Indians,…
Contest First and Second Nine W.B.B.C
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It was a set up. The photographer set it up. They were all posing. Because of the nature of the camera and its shutter speed, in order to record outdoor…
