A snippet from a larger Louis Van Oeyen panoramic photo of the teams lined up on Addie Joss Day. Joss, the Cleveland Naps star, had died of tubercular meningitis at age 31 in April. A team of American League “All Stars” came to Cleveland’s League Park on July 24, 1911 to play the hometown Naps for the benefit of Joss’s family.
This snippet includes members of the All Star team. Hall of Famers Walter Johnson, Bobby Wallace and Home Run Baker are shown. The larger panoramic image is shown below.
Cabinet photo of Willie Keeler by the Betz Studio of Baltimore who also produced a 1894 composite portrait cabinet card of the entire Baltimore Orioles team. We know this is a Betz image because another exact copy of this cabinet photo exists with a fully…
A Paul Thompson image of “Home Run” Baker wielding his bat. We know it is circa 1913 by the collar style.
This fascinating image shows the preparations being made to Stamford Bridge stadium in the Chelsea area of London prior to the baseball game. As the stadium was built for soccer, not baseball, the screening was necessary to protect the spectators, foremost among them the King…