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.
“Spalding’s Official Base Ball Guide,” 1878
View Full Item in Penn State University"A 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 annua…
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, 1842-1910, L. Prang & CoView Full Item in Boston Public LibraryDate supplied by cataloger. Title from item.
Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first professional baseball team, 1869
Snyder, Black & SturnView 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…
Pittsburgh Pirates in the dugout during the first World Series, Huntington Avenue Grounds, Boston, 1903
View Full Item in Boston Public LibraryPhoto caption: The Pirates Left to right: utility player Joe Marshall, infielder Otto Krueger, outfielder Jimmy Sebring, shortstop Honus Wagner, unidentified, catcher Eddie Phelps, the bat-boy, pitche…
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 LibraryPhoto caption: Chicago National League Ball Club 1906 - The "Cubs" -- Pennant Winners Postcard of the 1906 Chicago Cubs team. Players are identified as: Top Row, left to right: M. Brown, J. Pfeister,…
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…
Boston Red Sox on a train to spring training, Arizona, 1911
View Full Item in Boston Public LibraryPhoto caption: Arizona - Mar. '11 Michael T. McGreevy poses with Boston Red Sox players in front of locomotive. Taken in March of 1911.
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.
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 ChicagoAmerican 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…
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.
Affidavit 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.
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 LibraryTitle and date from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve. Summary provided by the Society for American Baseball Research, 2010-2011. Res…
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
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Baseball catcher’s mask, 1930
View Full Item in Lenox Historical SocietyTitle from accompanying materials. Date from accompanying materials.
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 LibraryOriginal data provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve: Three men, n.d. Corrected date based on research by the Society for American Baseball Research,…
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 LibraryTitle and date from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve. Summary provided by the Society for American Baseball Research, 2010-2011. Res…
Hall-of-Fame umpire Cal Hubbard and Cleveland Indians coaches, Fenway Park, Boston, 1937
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. Summary provided by the Society for American Baseball Research, 2010-2011. (l…
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. July 4, 1939 Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections. Plate no. FY-29.
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 LibraryOriginal data provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve: Ted Williams and Johnny Sain in military uniform in Fenway dugout, Red Sox - Yankees game, n.d.…
