Abner Doubleday, purported inventor of baseball and Union Army general
Brady's National Photographic Portrait GalleriesView Full Image in Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, IndianaCDV, Abner Doubleday, seated, in uniform, head and torso, left hand in lap; photograph from Brady's National Portrait Gallery negative
Doubleday Field, purported home of the first baseball game, Cooperstown, New York
Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967View Full Item in Boston Public LibraryTitle and date from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve.
New York Knickerbockers and Excelsior of Brooklyn, two of the first organized baseball teams, 1850s
View Full Item in The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. The New York Public LibraryPhotograph of a photograph in the Spalding Collection in the New York Public Library.
“Spalding’s Official Base Ball Guide,” 1878
View Full Item in Penn State UniversityA complete and practical hand book of the national game of America. Includes constitution and playing rules of the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs. Reprint. Originally published annuall…
Handsewn leather baseball from Civil War era
View Full Item in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesSegmented, hand-stitched nineteenth century leather baseball from the museum collection of Jefferson County.
Chromolithograph of men playing baseball, late 19th century
Sandham, Henry, 1842-1910View Full Item in Boston Public LibraryTitle from item. Sandham, Henry
Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first professional baseball team, 1869
View Full Item in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesBlack and white lithograph shows baseball scene with focus on pitcher wearing the Cincinnati Red Stockings uniform and mutton chop sideburns. Circling the pitcher are portraits of nine named players i…
Philadelphia Athletics and Boston Red Stockings at the South End Grounds, Boston, 1875
View Full Item in Boston Public LibraryAlthough dated on the mount 1872, based on the players pictured, they were all active only in 1875. Standing, left to right: George Hall. Athletics, George Bechtel, Athletics, William Craven, Athletic…
William A. Hulbert, president and one of the founders of the National League
View Full Item in The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. The New York Public LibraryChicago Pirates, one of eight Players’ League teams, 1890
View Full Item in University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign LibraryCaption: "One of the greatest combinations of stars ever put together--Comiskey's Chicago Brotherhood team of 1890.
Greensboro minor league baseball team, North Carolina, circa 1900
Cone, Bernard M.View Full Item in University of North Carolina at GreensboroThe Greensboro minor league baseball team out at Cone Athletic Park.
Pittsburgh Pirates in the dugout during the first World Series, Huntington Avenue Grounds, Boston, 1903
View Full Item in Boston Public LibraryLeft to right: utility player Joe Marshall, infielder Otto Krueger, outfielder Jimmy Sebring, shortstop Honus Wagner, unidentified, catcher Eddie Phelps, the bat-boy, pitcher Gus Thompson, pitcher Dea…
Hall-of-Fame infielders Napoleon Lajoie of the Cleveland Naps and Honus Wagner of the Pittsburgh Pirates shake hands, Cleveland, 1904
Van Oeyen, LouisView Full Item in Boston Public LibraryHall of fame infielders shake hands in Cleveland. Lajoie was a second baseman for Cleveland and Honus Wagner a shortstop for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, Frank Chance, the players referenced in the refrain of the poem “Baseball’s Sad Lexicon,” and the Chicago Cubs, 1906
View Full Item in Boston Public LibraryPostcard of the 1906 Chicago Cubs team. Players are identified as: Top Row, left to right: M. Brown, J. Pfeister, A. Hofman, C.G. Williams, O. Overall, E. Reulback, J. Kling. Middle Row: H. Gessler, J…
Ban Johnson, American League founder and president, and the American League Teams, 1907
Bobrick, M. AView Full Item in Boston Public LibraryPhotographic montage with a portrait of American League President and Founder Ban Johnson, in center, surrounded by the individual portraits of the eight American League teams. Pictured are: New York…
Harry C. Pulliam, sixth National League president, and the National League Teams, 1907
Bobrick, M. AView Full Item in Boston Public LibraryPhotographic montage with a portrait of National League President Harry C. Pulliam, in center, surrounded by the individual portraits of the eight National League teams. Pictured are: Pittsburgh Pirat…
Baseball card of Hall-of-Fame southpaw pitcher Rube Waddell, St. Louis Browns, 1909
View Full Item in Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and StudiesAmerican Tobacco Company baseball card of Rube Waddell, Pitcher, St. Louis Browns, American League, White Borders (T206), Piedmont 350 Subjects from the collection of Richard B. Russell.
Baseball card of Hall-of-Famer and Ojibwe tribe member Charles “Chief” Bender, Philadelphia Athletics, circa 1910
View Full Item in Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and StudiesAmerican Tobacco Company baseball card of Chief Bender, Pitcher, Philadelphia Athletics, American League, American Tobacco Company, Piedmont 150 Subjects from the collection of Richard B. Russell.
Baseball card of Hall-of-Fame pitcher Cy Young, Cleveland Naps, circa 1910
View Full Item in Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and StudiesAmerican Tobacco Company baseball card of Cy Young, Pitcher, Cleveland Naps, American League, White Borders (T206), Piedmont 350 Subjects from the collection of Richard B. Russell.
Baseball card of Hall-of-Fame center fielder, Tris Speaker, Boston Americans, circa 1910
View Full Item in Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and StudiesAmerican Tobacco Company baseball card of Tris Speaker, Outfield, Boston Red Sox, American League, White Borders (T206), Piedmont 350 Subjects from the collection of Richard B. Russell.
Baseball card of Hall-of-Famer Mordecai Brown, Chicago Cubs, circa 1910
View Full Item in Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and StudiesAmerican Tobacco Company baseball card of Mordecai Brown, Pitcher, Chicago Cubs, National League, Gold Borders (T205), Piedmont 400 Subjects from the collection of Richard B. Russell.
Boston Red Sox on a train to spring training, Arizona, 1911
View Full Item in Boston Public LibraryMichael T. McGreevy poses with Boston Red Sox players in front of locomotive. Taken in March of 1911. Photo caption: Arizona - Mar. '11
Newspaper article about Detroit Tigers players’ strike over Ty Cobb’s suspension for beating a fan, 1912
View Full Item in Temple UniversityPhoto shows Bulletin headlines and story about 1912 baseball strike by the Detroit Tigers. Title from clipping caption
Philadelphia Athletics manager and owner Connie Mack and New York Giants manager John McGraw, both Hall-of-Fame executives, 1913
View Full Item in Boston Public LibraryCut out photographs of Philadelphia Athletics Manager Connie Mack and New York Giants Manager John McGraw mounted on board.
Chicago White Sox owner Charles Comiskey and baseball organizer and executive Albert Spalding, 1913
View Full Item in University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign LibraryCaption: "Charles A. Comiskey (left) and A. G. Spalding snapped together for the first and only time. This meeting took place at Comiskey Park just before the famous White Sox-Giants world tour.
National League Player’s contract between New York Baseball Club and Claude Cooper, 1914
U.S. District Court for the Eastern (Chicago) Division of the Northern District of Illinois. 3/3/1905View Full Item in National Archives at ChicagoSt. Louis Terriers player slides into third base during a Federal League game, circa 1914
View Full Item in Missouri History MuseumA St. Louis Terriors player is sliding into third base with the third baseman there trying to tag him out. Can also see the center fielder.
Christy Mathewson, one of the first five Baseball Hall of Fame inductees, in New York Giants uniform, 1915
Underwood & Underwood, active 1880 - c. 1950View Full Item in National Portrait GalleryChicago White Sox and New York Giants players in front of Sphinx during baseball world tour, 1914
View Full Item in University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign LibraryCaption: "A 'family group' of the Sox-Giants world tourists in front of the Sphinx. Mr. and Mrs. Comiskey may be seen in the center, mounted on 'ships of the desert.
American League pennant winners at banquet, circa 1915
View Full Item in Knox County Public LibraryBaseball banquet for B.L. Johnson's pennant winners. Sam Johnson on front of inner row at right, his daughter Esther is behind him. Shows men and women seated at tables with plates of food, flag hangi…
Western Pacific Railway special dining car menu for Chicago White Sox spring training, 1915
UnknownView Full Item in California State Railroad Museum LibraryCalifornia Preservation Service (CAPS) Luncheon menu for a special train, the Chicago ""White Sox"" Special, which ran from Salt Lake City to San Francisco, February 19-20, 1915, en route to the team'…
World War I Draft Registration Card for Hall-of-Fame Detroit Tiger Tyrus R. “Ty” Cobb, 1917
War Department. Office of the Provost Marshal General. Selective Service System. 1917-7/15/1919View Full Item in National Archives at AtlantaThe draft registration card of Ty Cobb indicates that he worked as baseball player, employed in Detroit, Michigan.
Branch Rickey, player, manager, and executive and inventor of farm system, circa 1920
View Full Item in University of Michigan. Bentley Historical Library“Shoeless” Joe Jackson, later banned from baseball for his alleged role in Black Sox Scandal, circa 1917
View Full Item in Clemson University LibrariesPhotograph; portrait of "Shoeless" Joe Jackson wearing his Chicago White Sox uniform, 1917
Famous Jewish barnstorming team House of David, 1920
View Full Item in Temple UniversityWith description
Hillerich & Bradsby Louisville Slugger pattern bat for Bill Ewings, 1920s
Hillerich & Bradsby Co, Hillerich & Bradsby CoView Full Item in National Museum of American HistoryAffidavit of Merits from Chicago White Sox to seven banned “Black Sox” players regarding their contracts, 1921
U.S. District Court for the Eastern (Chicago) Division of the Northern District of Illinois. 3/3/1905View Full Item in National Archives at ChicagoThis item is an affidavit of merits by Harry Grabiner, then acting-secretary of the Chicago White Sox, for the law suit of George D. Weaver v. American League Baseball Club of Chicago. The affidavit c…
St. Louis Cardinals player and Hall-of-Famer Rogers Hornsby, 1925
Charles M. ConlonView Full Item in Queens Borough Public LibraryRogers Hornsby. Hornsby played for the St. Louis Cardinals when the photo was taken. The slide was used in a presentation, by Cahill.
Kenesaw Mountain Landis, first Commissioner of Baseball, dedicates Los Angeles’ Wrigley Field tower, 1926
View Full Item in Los Angeles Public LibraryTitle supplied by cataloger. Judge Kenesaw M. Landis speaks during the dedication ceremony of the 9-story tower at Wrigley Field in early 1926, a few months after the park opened in September 1925. Th…
Two of the first five players inducted to the Baseball Hall of Fame, Walter Johnson and Ty Cobb, Griffith Stadium, Washington, DC, 1926
Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967View Full Item in Boston Public LibraryWashington Senators pitcher Walter Johnson and Detroit Tigers Ty Cobb at Griffith Stadium in Washington. Title and date from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the ne…
New York Yankees Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth on a homerun tour in California, 1927
View Full Item in Los Angeles Public LibraryFamous Yankee twins--Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig are now on homerun tour to California. Standing left to right: "Larrupin Lou" Gehrig; Christy Walsh, Manager of Tour, and "Bustin' Babe" Ruth. Heretofore…
Philadelphia Athletics player and Hall-of-Famer Jimmie Foxx, 1929
Charles M. ConlonView Full Item in Queens Borough Public LibraryJimmie Foxx. Foxx played for the Philadelphia Athletics when the photo was taken. The slide was used in a presentation, by Cahill.
Baseball cleats, 1930
View Full Item in Lenox Historical SocietyTitle from accompanying materials. Date from accompanying materials.
Baseball catcher’s mask, 1930
View Full Item in Lenox Historical SocietyTitle from accompanying materials. Date from accompanying materials.
Baseball’s first Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis distributing World Series rings to the St. Louis Cardinals, 1931
View Full Item in Missouri History MuseumHorizontal, sepia photograph with man in a suit (at right) shaking hands with a baseball player at home plate. Several team members are lined up in front of the plate and the stands with spectators ar…
National League President Ford C. Frick, Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis, and American League President William Harrdige, circa 1930s
Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967View Full Item in Boston Public LibraryBaseball commissioner Kennesaw Mountain Landis (center) is flanked on the left by National League President Ford C. Frick and on the right by American League President William Harrdige. Original data…
Detroit Tigers and Hall-of-Famers Hank Greenberg and Goose Goslin at the World Series, 1934
Charles TreftsView Full Item in The State Historical Society of MissouriDetroit Tigers players Hank Greenberg and Leon 'Goose' Goslin sitting on the bench during the 1934 World Series at St. Louis
Boston Red Sox Hall-of-Famers, owner Tom Yawkey and player Lefty Grove, Fenway Park, Boston, 1935
Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967View Full Item in Boston Public LibraryMan in suit talks with Boston Red Sox Lefty Grove along the railing at Fenway Park. Title and date from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sl…
Minor league team the Milwaukee Brewers, circa 1935
View Full Item in Minnesota Historical Societyphotoprint
Hall-of-Fame umpire Cal Hubbard and Cleveland Indians coaches, Fenway Park, Boston, 1937
Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967View Full Item in Boston Public Library(l to r:) Cleveland Indians coaches Wally Schang and George Uhle facing the field as umpire Cal Hubbard leaves the dugout at Fenway Park. Title and date from information provided by Leslie Jones or th…
Fifth Annual All-Star Game program, Washington, DC, 1937
View Full Item in Archives Center, National Museum of American HistoryDonated to the Archives Center in 2001 by Eleanor Linkous. Located in box 1 The game was played in Griffith Stadium, Washington, DC. An illustration of President Franklin Roosevelt throwing a baseball…
Pacific Coast League score card for Sacramento Solons, 1938
View Full Item in Sacramento Public LibraryThis score card for the Sacramento Solons accompanied tilts with the Seattle Rainiers for May and July 1938. In that season, the Solons finished fifth, the Rainiers last, in the eight team Pacific Coa…
Lou Gehrig’s farewell speech, announcing his retirement due to Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Yankee Stadium, New York City, July 4, 1939
View Full Item in University of Missouri - Kansas CityLou Gehrig's farewell speech to fans at Yankee Stadium.
Philadelphia Athletics donating blood at the Red Cross, 1942
UnknownView Full Item in Temple University"Connie Mack takes some of his Athletics to Red Cross headquarters to make blood donations for the Services. From left: Lena Blackburne, Mack, Hal Wagner and Lieut. D. E. Hale, of the Navy Medical Cor…
Joe DiMaggio in Army uniform at LA Breakfast Club, Los Angeles, 1943
View Full Item in Los Angeles Public LibraryWearing his military uniform, Joe DiMaggio talks with Staff Sgt. John E. Hill at a Breakfast Club. Photograph dated: August 18, 1943. LAPL00053520
Red Sox players Ted Williams and Johnny Sain in military uniform in Fenway Park dugout, Boston, 1943
Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967View Full Item in Boston Public Library(l to r:) Boston Red Sox Ted Williams and Boston Brave Johnny Sain in military uniforms surrounded by Red Sox players and coaches in the dugout prior to a game at Fenway Park. Original data provided b…
