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A Photographic Treasury of Baseball’s Deadball Era

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

“Iron Man” Joe McGinnity strikes a pose during Spring Training in Savannah, Georgia circa 1904. This image graced the cover of Spalding’s How to Pitch from 1905 and onwards.

In 1908 Hal Chase briefly played for the Stockton Millers while he was banned by the American League.

Walter Johnson receiving a trophy on Walter Johnson Day in 1913.

Buck Weaver on the World Tour in London 1914. Photo by the Daily Mirror.

Ty Cobb and Bennie Kauff in Houston, Texas during Spring Training in 1916.

Charley Street in circa 1910.