This picturesque image of Larry Doyle was taken by Louis Van Oeyen at Forbes Field in Pittsburg on September 19, 1911. The date is noted on back in Van Oeyen’s own hand. A check of the boxscores shows that the New York Giants indeed played the Pirates in Pittsburg on that date. This image of Forbes Field confirms the location down the first base line of our image.
Note the metal rimmed bat bad Doyle is sitting on and the carved legs of the bench.
McGraw in his 1912 only New York Giants uniform. Photo by The Article Syndicate, Inc.
A contact print of Rube Marshall of the Philadelphia Phillies taken in 1912 at the Polo Grounds in New York. Contact prints with Conlon’s home address stamp are rare.
Rube Waddell was one of the most fascinating characters of the Deadball Era, or any era for that matter. In January 1903 during the offseason Waddell took a job as a player/coach for Rollins College in Ormond, Florida. He brought in fellow Philadelphia Athletics’ catcher…