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A photo illustration commemorating the Pirates’ 1909 National League championship. The man in the water is Frank Chance, player-manager of the runner-up Chicago Cubs. On the plank is John McGraw, manager of the third-place New York Giants. And, oddly enough, the Pirates would best outfielder Davy Jones and the Detroit Tigers in the World Series that year. From the Library of Congress digital archives.
A 1910 baseball card for the Sacramento Sacts' Joseph Briggs. Images from the Library of Congress digital archives. There are no known restrictions on publication.
A 1908 baseball team of Indiana glass workers. Photograph from the Library of Congress digital archives, by Lewis Wickes Hine. There are no known restrictions on publication.
Photograph by army.arch. Republished per a Creative Commons license.
Outside the Herald Building in New York, a crowd gathered around a playograph to “watch” the 1911 World Series. Read more about the playograph in this 1912 issue of the Yale Scientific Monthly.
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Patient rehabilitation baseball at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in 1919 or 1920. Photograph from the Otis Historical Archives of the National Museum of Health and Medicine, via Flickr. Republished per a Creative Commons license.
Photograph by Mark Sebastian, republished per a Creative Commons license.
Jack Dunn (middle) is best known for his exploits as a minor league owner. Both Babe Ruth (left) and Jack Bentley (right) were Dunn findings. Ruth, in fact, owes his famous nickname partly to Dunn: After Dunn sold the young star to Boston, Ruth’s teammates called him “Dunn’s $10,000 Babe.” Bentley, like Ruth, was a minor league star as a batter and pitcher, but he never enjoyed great success in his nine-year major league career.
Photograph from the Library of Congress, with no know restrictions on use.
The Seattle Mariners’ Ichiro Suzuki. Photograph by Matt McGee, republished per a Creative Commons license.
A Buck O’Neil mural. Photograph by David Cohen, taken at 16th and Brooklyn in Kansas City, Missouri. Republished per a Creative Commons license.
The (almost) demolished Shea Stadium and the New York Mets’ new home, Citi Field. Photograph by Tristan Porto, republished per a Creative Commons license. Click the image for a larger version.
The old and new Yankee Stadiums. Photograph by loungeflyDE, republished per a Creative Commons license.
A photo essay, edited by Phil Bencomo.
The Philadelphia Athletics' Shibe Park, shown here in this undated photograph, opened in 1909. Originally named for one of the club's initial owners, Benjamin Shibe, the park was renamed Connie Mack Stadium in 1953. The legendary Mack became the sole owner in 1936. The stadium was demolished in 1976.
All photos from the Library of Congress digital archives. There are no known restrictions on reproduction, and the photographers are unknown. Background information from Wikipedia.
Regimental Combat Team 5 gathered weekly to play baseball at Camp Fallujah. Deployed in January 2003, the regiment lost 221 members before being relieved in 2007. Photograph by Gunnery Sgt. Mark Oliva, republished per a Creative Commons license.
From the Seattle Municipal Archives, republished per a Creative Commons license.
