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Blackpool England 1930
Postcard 1930
September 29. Harry Steinfeldt is born in 1877.
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September 29, 1877. Harry Steinfeldt is born. Shot of Harry Steinfeldt while playing for Cincinnati in 1904.
Max Schmelling Spars with Dempsey
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News photograpj 1925
Jack Fournier Baseball Uniform Samples
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Catalog Page • Ken-Wel Sporting Goods Co. • Gloversville, New York • 6″ x 8″ • 1924.
September 27. Albert Einstein delivers his paper to a physics journal introducing his equation E=mc2 in 1905.
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September 27, 1905. Albert Einstein delivers his paper to a physics journal introducing his equation E=mc2. Albert Einstein is photographed while visiting the Mt Wilson Observatory in Los Angeles in…
September 27. Whit Wyatt is born in 1907.
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September 27, 1907. Whit Wyatt is born. Portrait of Wyatt in a Brooklyn Dodgers uniform.
September 26. Sir Francis Drake completes Earth’s circumnavigation in 1580.
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September 26, 1580. Sir Francis Drake completes Earth’s circumnavigation. Woodcut of the eruption of Vesuvius, a scene from the series ‘Drake’s Voyanges,’ from circa 1800.
September 26. Bobby Shantz is born in 1925.
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September 25. Bobby Shantz is born. Wire photo of Shantz joking with Yankee manager Casey Stengel in 1958.
Sequoias Are Amazing
Advertising Trade Card • for Abietine Co. • California • 3″ x 6″ • c.1885
September 25. Phil Rizzuto is born in 1917.
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September 25, 1917. Phil Rizzuto is born. Rizzuto poses for a batting photograph around 1950.
September 24. Charlie Pabor is born in 1846.
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September 24, 1846. Charlie Pabor is born. Woodcut portrait of Pabor in a Unions of Morissania uniform.
September 24. President Eisenhower enforces desegregation in Little Rock in 1957.
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September 24, 1957. President Eisenhower enforces desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas. Photo of a sharecroppers cabin with an Afrcan American girl in the doorway, from Roanoke, Virginia in 1905.
Chicago Conspiracy Program
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Magazine cover illustration 1969.
September 23. Lino Donoso is born in 1922.
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September 23, 1922. Lino Donoso is born. Photograph from Cuba with Donoso pitching for the Almendares Scorpions.
September 22. Urban Shocker is born in 1890.
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September 22, 1890. Urban Shocker is born. Photo of Shocker at spring training with the Yankees in the mid-1920s.
September 22. Gene Tunney defeats Jack Dempsey in ‘long count’ match in 1927.
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September 22, 1927. Gene Tunney wins ‘long count’ match over Jack Dempsey. Portrait of Gene Tunney, c.1927.
September 21. In the Opium Wars the Euros defeat the Chinese in the Battle of Palikao in 1860.
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September 21, 1860. In the Opium Wars the Euros defeat the Chinese in the Battle of Palikao. Real photo postcard from Shanghai showing antics in an opium den.
September 21. Eldon Auker is born in 1910.
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September 21, 1910. Eldon Auker is born. Eldon Auker throws a submarine pitch during warmups before a game with the Tigers.
Cunard Line Menu Cover
Ocean Liner Menu Cover • Cunard Line Co. • London • 10″ x 13″ • c.1935
September 20. Zeke Bonura is born in 1908.
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September 20, 1908, Zeke Bonura is born. Photo of a Welcome to Chicago pre-game ceremony for rookie Zeke Bonura in 1934.
President Garfield Funeral March
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Sheet music cover illustration 1881.
Bob Turley Joins the Yankees 1955
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News photograph 1955
September 18. Heinie Groh is born in 1889.
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September 18, 1889. Heinie Groh is born. Glass slide of Groh with Cincinnati, in the fight for a batting title in 1918.
September 18. Fugitive Slave Act passed by Congress in 1850.
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September 18, 1850. Congress requires all runaway slaves to be returned to owners in the Fugitive Slave Act. Advertising trade cards showing a slave having reached safety in the North,…
Barry Bonds Hits for Pittsburgh
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News photograph 1990
Rube Foster in Chicago
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News photograph 1920
September 16. George McVey is born in 1865.
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September 16, 1865. George McVey is born. Old Judge cabinet photo of McVey in a Milwaukee uniform, dated 1889.
September 16. Wall Street bombing kills 38 in 1920.
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September 16, 1920. Wall Street bombing occurs in front of the J.P. Morgan building. Wire photo of the aftermath of the bombing on Wall Street.
September 15. Bud Clancy is born in 1900.
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September 15, 1900. Bud Clancy is born. Photo of first baseman Bud Clancy in a White Sox uniform.
September 15. Charles Darwin aboard the HMS Beagle arrives in the Galapagos Islands in 1835.
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September 15, 1835. Charles Darwin aboard the HMS Beagle arrives in the Galapagos Islands. Poster for a monkey act which proved Darwin’s theories, from circa 1905.
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