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!

This print of Sam Crawford was the production piece likely used to create his D304 card image and his 1916 Police Gazette supplement image. The masking matches those images. The research was done by Gumshoe Baseball and Deron Dixon.

This image is likely by Francis P. Burke as there is a known image by him that is just a tick off of this one. Note the man at the center of the bottom row. This is the team’s black trainer “Doc” Buckner. He is…

1913 profile image of McGraw by Francis Burke of Burke & Atwell.

Images of Charles M. Conlon himself are exceedingly rare. This one depicts him performing his day job as a proofreader for the New York Telegram. Note the back lists “proofreader” before it mentions “photographer.” Baseball photography was his secondary job, but primary fascination. The note…

This striking image of Topsy Hartsel was taken by Charles M. Conlon in circa 1909 at Hilltop Park in New York. It bears Conlon’s handwriting on back. This image appears in McCabe’s Conlon book.

John McGraw image by The Pictorial News Co. in 1903. Used in McGraw’s Science of Baseball books in the mid 1900s.

One of the few known prints by Robert Tebbs with his distinctive stamp on back. This image of Cecil Ferguson was used for a Police Gazette supplement in 1907.

Red Dooin at the Polo Grounds in 1903 as captured by William Van Der Weyde. This image was used for a Police Gazette supplement In July 1903. Van Der Weyde was fond of photographing players at interesting angles such as the stadium wall receding into…

This image depicts Pennant Day on June 12, 1906 at the Polo Grounds in New York. The Giants were celebrating their first World Series pennant and had just finished with their parade through New York, the first World Series parade ever held. The cars the…

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Walter Johnson warming up at the Polo Grounds in New York circa 1912. The image is by Charles M. Conlon.