Billy Sullivan and Boss Schmidt, catchers for the Chicago White Sox and Detroit Tigers respectively, relax along the outfield wall at Benett Park in Detroit circa 1910. This image was captured by a photographer from The Detroit News. It perfectly captures the essence of the…
Joe Wood in Hot Springs, Arkansas for training camp in 1915. This photo was taken by George T. Murray of The Boston Journal who accompanied the team to Spring Training. Murray took a shot of Babe Ruth in that camp, in a similar pose, that…
This image of Young was likely taken in 1911 when he signed with the Boston Rustlers. It was taken by Boston photographer Richard W. Sears whose stamps appear on the photos back as well as the back of the presentation sleeve it resides in.
Superb large image of Rube Waddell taken by Louis Van Oeyen in Cleveland’s League Park in 1905. It was published in the 1906 Lajoie Guide and erroneously attributed to being in Boston, but this is clearly League Park. There is an early Van Oeyen stamp…
Stellar image of Matty McIntyre when with the Chicago White Sox circa 1911. Photo is by noted photographer Louis Van Oeyen. It is rare to find mounted Van Oeyen images. His stamp is on back. Also note the hole in the palm of McIntyre’s glove.
This intense portrait of Tris Speaker was likely taken during the 1912 World Series based on the uniform, the 1912 stamp, and the description of the game action written on back. One of the better Speaker images out there.
This 1914 photograph was taken by by St. Louis photographer G.E. Palfrey.
Corsicana was the birthplace of the Texas oil industry, as oil was discovered there in the 1890s, well before the famous Spindletop in 1901 in Beaumont. Note the oil derricks in the background at left and at far right. The photo was published in the…
These RPPCs of the St. Louis Browns player Barney Pelty were likely taken especially for him by the St. Louis photography firm of Bell & Palfrey in circa 1908 or 1909. They all bear a blind Bell & Palfrey stamp.
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.