Double fold postcard depicting the inaugural game at Forbes Field on June 30, 1909. According to the boxscore for the game, Hall of Famer pitcher Vic Willis is on the mound and bow legged Hall of Famer Honus Wagner is at short. We can see…
This image was shot by a fan on October 10th at the 1912 World Series at Fenway Park. It depicts the crucial moment of game 3, with the Giants’ Rube Marquard facing Boston’s Larry Gardner in the bottom of the ninth. The postcard states it…
This game action shot shows the New York Yankees against the Boston Red Sox in September 1912 during Fenway’s inaugural season. The keys to establishing that series are the pressbox and the new box seats down the baselines. Fenway had a small pressbox atop the…
Postcard from a World Series game in 1906 in the West Side Grounds between the Chicago Cubs and the Chicago White Sox. The White Sox would prevail in the Series to claim the World Championship.
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…
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.J. Schumann, a Chicago photographer issued a eight real photo postcard set of Chicago baseball stadiums in 1908. This shot shows the ornate main entrance in 1908, the first year the Cubs were formally known as the “Cubs”. Note the cub figures holding up the…
This image is of the Polo Grounds, the New York Giants home field, in April 1911 just after a fire destroyed it. The vantage point is from high up on Coogan’s Bluff. Simply a stunning photograph!
This historically significant image is the earliest known original photo of Babe Ruth, the most celebrated baseball player ever, in the Majors. The image was likely snapped by a fan from the first base stands. Ruth is on the mound in his second major league…