Early action shot of Boston’s Harry Lord at third base at the Huntington Grounds by Paul Thompson’s The Article Syndicate.
HOF pitcher “Hippo” Vaughn is shown delivering a pitch. The image was by The New York Herald, but found its way into the archive of the Chicago Daily News.
Sharp and clear contact print by Underwood & Underwood of the Chicago Cubs team in 1912. The team is in their road uniform and jackets and are posed by the duguot at the Polo Grounds in New York. “Three Finger” Mordecai Brown is the third…
Portrait of Sam Crawford circa 1917 by Underwood & Underwood.
This print of Harry Heilmann was issued by Felix Mendelsohn. While not a photographer himself, Mendelsohn issued a set of cards, the M101-6 set, which this image was included within.
c. 1903 Pictorial News Co. print of Wee Willie Keeler leaping for a high one. Likely take at the same time as the other 1903 Pictorial News image of Keeler which is in the Collection. This image was used for the front cover of the…
One of the best images of Young from late in his career. This image is from 1908 based on the jersey, note the “Boston” printed on the red sock on Young’s jersey along with the crisscross lace enclosure. The back tells us this image came…
Detroit Tiger Oscie Vitt in Spring Training in Waxahachie, Texas in 1918. This photo was likely taken by Bob Dorman of NEA.
This image of Clarke was taken by William Vander Weyde in circa 1903. It is shown in the Eastman Museum online collection of Weyde negatives. This print was also used to create this 1907 postcard of Clarke. The image was also used on this September…
Nice image of Sherwood Magee with the Cincinnati Reds in 1919, the year they won the World Series. By the N.Y. Sun.
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…
John McGraw image by The Pictorial News Co. in 1903. Used in McGraw’s Science of Baseball books in the mid 1900s.