Massive panoramic image of Opening Day, April 21, 1909, for a game between the Boston Red Sox and the Philadelphia Athletics as Boston’s Huntington Grounds.  This is image is by Falk Photo Co. based in Boston Massachusetts (no known connection to Benjamin Falk, a New York photographer).  It features the teams, and the Teel band, in front of the grandstand in their sweaters.  Notably, it contains 7 Hall of Famers. Connie Mack, Eddie Collins, Eddie Plank, Chief Bender, and Frank “Home Run” Baker of the A’s and Tris Speaker and Harry Hooper of the Red Sox.  It is also one of the earliest images of Baker, Speaker and Hooper as this was their first full year in the Majors.

A’s players left to right: Topsy Hartsel, Connie Mack – HOF (behind Hartsel), Jimmy Dygert, Stuffy McInnis, Jack Barry, Eddie Collins – HOF, Danny Murphy, Heine Heitmuller, Jack Lapp, Simon Nichols, Amos Strunk, Cy Morgan, Rube Oldring, Harry Krause, Eddie Plank – HOF, Chief  Bender – HOF, Rube Vickers, Frank Baker – HOF, Ira Thomas, Jack Coombs, Victor Schlitzer, Harry Davis.

Red Sox players left to right (taken from the Boston Globe identifiers shown below: Fred Lake, Doc Gessler, Jake Stahl, Babe Danzig, Charlie Chech, Harry Wolter, Cy Morgan, Tris Speaker – HOF, Mascot McCarthy, Frank Arellanes, Fred Burchell, Harry Lord, Harry Niles, Heine Wagner, Harry Hooper – HOF, Jack Ryan, Charlie French, Ed Cicotte, Andy McConnell, Jack Thoney, Elmer Steele, Bill Carrigan, Tubby Spencer, Bunny Madden, Pat Donahue.