Baseball The Game

TITLE: Base ball / Aquarelle print by L. Prang & Co. CALL NUMBER: PGA - Prang, L. & Co.--Baseball (C size) [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-2776 (color film copy transparency), LC-USZ62-5298 (b&w film copy neg.)

Digital ID: cph 3g02776 Source: color film copy transparency Reproduction Number: LC-USZC4-2776 (color film copy transparency) , LC-USZ62-5298 (b&w film copy neg.) Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA Retrieve higher resolution JPEG version (177 kilobytes) Retrieve uncompressed archival TIFF version (4 megabytes)

Digital ID: cph 3a08609Source: b&w film copy neg.Medium resolution JPEG version (48 kilobytes) Retrieve uncompressed archival TIFF version (1,596 kilobytes)

SUMMARY: Baseball game. MEDIUM: 1 print : lithograph, color. CREATED, PUBLISHED: c1887.

Publication and other forms of distribution: Most of the images in this collection were published before 1923 (THIS IMAGE) and are therefore in the public domain.

Works published prior to 1978 were copyright protected for a maximum of 75 years. See Circular 1 "COPYRIGHT BASICS" from the U.S. Copyright Office. Works published before 1923 are now in the public domain

Credit Line: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, [reproduction number, LC-USZC4-2776]

REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.

DIGITAL ID: (color film copy transparency) cph 3g02776 hdl.loc.gov/cph.3g02776 , (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a08609 hdl.loc.gov/cph.3a08609 , CARD #: 93515576

Baseball From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Semiprofessional baseball started in the United States in the 1860s; in 1869, the first fully professional baseball club, the Cincinnati Red Stockings, was formed and went undefeated against a schedule of semipro and amateur teams. By the following decade, American newspapers were referring to baseball as the "National Pastime" or "National Game." The first "major league" was the National Association, which lasted from 1871 to 1875.

The National League, which still exists today, was founded in 1876. Several other major leagues formed and failed, but the American League, established in 1901 as a major league and originating from the minor Western League (1893), succeeded. While the two leagues were rivals who actively fought for the best players, often disregarding one another's contracts and engaging in bitter legal disputes, a modicum of peace was established in 1903, and the World Series was inaugurated that fall.

The next year, however, the National League champion New York Giants did not participate as their manager, John McGraw, refused to recognize the major league status of the American League and its champion, the Boston Americans. The following year, McGraw relented and the Giants played the Philadelphia Athletics in the World Series.

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