An early photo of Mordecai Brown taken in 1905 by Paul Thompson early in his career as well. We know it is 1905 based on Brown’s uniform as shown below.
Based on the fact Brown is wearing a road uniform and the background it is believed the photograph was taken in New York’s Polo Grounds. That was Thompson’s home base at the time and the stamp address on back is from his earliest period.
Drummond Brown while at Yale circa 1910. Brown appeared in the Majors for a cup of coffee a few years later.
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…
This image of Walter Johnson was taken in 1913 at the Polo Grounds in New York. Johnson’s Washington Senators played against the New York Highlanders who started using the Polo Grounds in 1912, but only after the last game the Senators played against them that…