Johnny Evers seen taking his cuts during batting practice at the Polo Grounds in New York in 1909. This negative from George Grantham Bain’s News Service is one of the earliest existing negatives from Bain as his services offices burned in 1908.
This glass Magic Lantern slide advertises Speaker’s move from the Boston Red Sox to the Cleveland Naps in 1916.
These four glass plate negatives of “Doc” White were taken by Francis P. Burke in circa 1912. They were all featured in the book That Old Ball Game by David R. Phillips, who rediscovered the Burke negatives in the 1970s.
Jeff Tesreau, the Giants rookie pitcher in Cincinnati in 1912. The photo is by Cincinnati photographer J.R. Schmidt.
1916 photograph of Ty Cobb greeting Benny Kauff in Houston, Texas in April 1916 when the Giants and Tigers played an exhibition there in Spring Training.
Wid Conroy with the Washington Senators in 1910 based on the road uniform. Photo was taken by The Cleveland Leader’s staff photographer.
Interesting large early photo of Frank Chance. The stamp on back means this image was once part of The Cleveland Leaders newspaper archive. Also note the bat is entirely a drawn in fiction, Chance was doing a mock swing, but was not actually holding a…
Contact photo of Heine Zimmerman take by Charles M. Conlon in 1910. This is an early image from Conlon and bears his 111th Street home address on back. The image was used for Zimmerman’s Texas Tommy card.
Fohl was the manager of the Cleveland Naps in 1916. The photo is by noted Cleveland photographer Frank W. Smith who had a penchant for having the subject of his photo sign the photo. The photo is printed on doubleweight high quality paper as Smith…
Art Nichols c. 1902 cabinet photo by Carl Horner. Nichols was with St. Louis from 1901 to 1903 and the back of our photo has a 1902 date taken handwritten note. The Horner mount lists his 11 Winter St. address which he used in the…
Ty Cobb (HOF), Sam Crawford (HOF) and Davy Jones at the 1909 World Series in Pittsburg’s new Forbes Field. Taken by noted Cleveland news photographer Louis Van Oeyen and twice signed by Van Oeyen himself for presentation to Ty Cobb. Oeyen sometimes signed photos to…
Rare 1910 H.C. Hubel real photo postcard depicting Ralph Works. Hubel was a Michigan photographer who produced wonderful RPPCs in which he would transpose images onto a different background, such as this giant player towering over buildings and people. One of the earliest versions of…