Larry Schlaffly, Manager of the Buffalo Buffeds and Otto Knabe, Manager of the Baltimore Terrapins exchange greetings just prior to the first ever game of the Federal League. Here is the image in the Baltimore paper the next day. A truly historic image!
Ty Cobb slides into third with Home Run Baker covering the bag. Famous image where Cobb spiked Baker causing a major controversy.
This classic image of Baker with the upturned collar and massive bat is in our opinion the finest image of Baker and which perfectly captures the aura of the Deadball Era. Baker’s bat weighed in an incomprehensible 52 ounces.
This, and another photo in the collection, shows Red Faber in one of his earliest photos in a Major League uniform. Faber did not make his first appearance in the the Majors until the 1914 regular season for the Chicago White Sox. The White Sox…