Chief Bender is shown in his windup on the mound in this postcard taken on September 1, 1913 at Shibe Park in Philadelphia. This postcard accompanies the 1913 Bender Coming off the Field postcard which is also part of this Collection. The same fan took…
This image depicts Bender coming off the field in a postcard snapped by a fan on the third base line on September 1, 1913 at Shibe Park in Philadelphia. This is the same game, and by the same photographer, as the 1913 Bender on the…
Image of Chief Bender warming up in Shibe Park in 1911. This is one of several postcards from this likely set depicting members of the Philadelphia Athletics. The A’s Hall of Famers Bender, Plank, Collins and Baker are known to be included, but not more…
Lee Stopple, a noted photographer, took this image of Baker and the similar image of Christy Mathewson also in this collection. The clarity and composition of the photos is of exceptional quality and we can get a sense of Stopple from the accolades he annotated…
RPPC of Home Run Baker holding his lethal bat. While the postcard is trimmed, it features all of the actual image as the photographer chose an oval crop for the image itself.
Christy Mathewson and Chief Bender are the opposing pitchers depicted in this postcard for the first game of the 1911 World Series at the Polo Grounds in New York. This is a lithographic rather than photographic postcard.
A great example of a press photo used for a newspaper article. This photo was used for this article in a October 1911 newspaper just prior to his appearance in the World Series against the Giants.