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A Photographic Treasury of Baseball’s Deadball Era

Frank Chance at the batting cage at Spring Training in Houston, Texas in 1914. Photo by Brown Brothers.

Doc Crandall posed at the West Side Grounds in Chicago in 1912. A possible Francis P. Burke image

Matty wearing his black 1911 World Series uniform. Photo by Underwood & Underwood. This image was used on a 1911 World Series postcard with Chief Bender.

It is very unusual to see a photograph of a locker room during the Deadball Era. This image depicts Frank “Home Run” Baker and Stuffy McInnis in the locker room, likely in Shibe Park in Philadelphia, circa 1913.

Bender is seen here taking batting practice at the newly constructed Polo Grounds in New York during the 1911 World Series.