Babe Ruth 1919 Boston Red Sox

Babe Ruth 1919 Boston Red Sox. Public Domain ClipArt Stock Photos and Images. Title: Babe Ruth, 1919. Date Created/Published: 1919. Medium: 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-npcc-00316 (digital file from original)

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Call Number: LC-F8- 4544 [P and P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Notes: Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch one.

Subjects: Ruth, Babe,--1895-1948. Boston Red Sox (Baseball team) Baseball players. Format: Glass negatives. Collections: National Photo Company Collection. Part of: National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress)

William "Dummy" Hoy

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"Dummy" Hoy invented the hand signs the umpires use. Before Hoy invented the signs, deaf baseball players didn't know whether they were safe or out. To make it easier for the deaf to play baseball, "Dummy" created signs for safe, out, strike, ball, etc. These signs became accepted by all umpires for all games, not just the ones in which Hoy played. William "Dummy" Hoy

Do you know how many bases William Ellsworth "Dummy" Hoy stole in his major league career? Over 600, according to Sam Crawford. "That alone should be enough to put him in the Hall of Fame!" said Crawford. Hitting A Home Run For Deaf People Everywhere

Goodwin & Company From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Goodwin & Company was an American tobacco manufacturer from New York City. Initially E. Goodwin and Brother, the company was founded before the American Civil War. It was known for its cigarette brands "Gypsy Queen" and "Old Judge". In 1890, the company was merged, along with four others, into James Buchanan Duke's American Tobacco Company to create an American monopoly on tobacco product manufacturing and retail.

Today the company is mostly remembered for its tobacco trading cards, depicting baseball players, other athletes, and a variety of social scenes and portraits. In 1887, Goodwin & Co. were the among the first to issue trading cards to promote their brands, first using sepia-toned photographic albumen prints, and later chromolithographic reproductions of multi-colored etchings.

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TITLE: [Dummy Hoy] CALL NUMBER: LOT 13163-05, no. 311. MEDIUM: 1 photographic print : albumen. CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1887-90. Unedited jpg NOTES: Issued by: Goodwin & Company COLLECTION: Baseball Cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection. REPOSITORY:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. DIGITAL ID:(original) bbc 0383

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Cigarette card collector Benjamin K. Edwards preserved these baseball cards in albums with more than 12,000 other cards on many subjects. After his death, Edwards' daughter gave the albums to noted poet and Lincoln biographer Carl Sandburg, who donated them to the Library's Prints and Photographs Division in 1954.

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Yankee Stadium, Phil Rizzuto Tribute

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Yankee Stadium From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Yankee Stadium is a baseball stadium in New York City that is the home of the New York Yankees, a Major League baseball team. Located at East 161st Street and River Avenue in the Bronx, it has hosted Yankees home games since 1923. It was formerly the home of the New York Giants football team, and once hosted dozens of boxing's most famous fights.

Yankee Stadium is one of the most famous sports venues in the world, due to its primary occupants having won more World Series championships than any other team. Its nickname, "The House that Ruth Built", comes from the iconic Babe Ruth, the baseball superstar whose prime years coincided with the beginning of the Yankees' winning history. Many Yankee fans refer to it as simply "The Stadium" (as in "I'm going to a game at the Stadium").

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Phil Rizzuto From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Philip Francis Rizzuto (born Fiero Francis Rizzuto, September 25, 1917 – August 13, 2007) was a Major League Baseball player and radio/television sports announcer, known both for his skills as a player and his popular but idiosyncratic style as a broadcaster.

Nicknamed "The Scooter," Rizzuto was inducted to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1994, having been selected by a Veterans Committee vote.

Rizzuto was born in Brooklyn, the son of a streetcar motorman. Despite his diminutive size — usually listed during his playing career as five feet, six inches tall and 160 pounds — he played both baseball and football at Richmond Hill High School in Queens.

While most sources have listed his birth date as 1918, he admitted many years ago that he had cut a year off his birth date early in his career after players told him it would add a year to his career. His actual birth year was 1917

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Baseball A bag of baseballs

A bag of baseballs sits on the back of the pitcher's mound at Camp Fallujah's sandlot baseball field. ID: 30290. Photographer: Gunnery Sgt. Mark Oliva. Regimental Combat Team-5, 1st Marine Division Public Affairs.High Resolution Image

Marines from Regimental Combat Team 5 gather there every week to play games, using the same ad-hoc rules they used when they were kids to keep games moving. The field isn't much to look at, but for these once-hopeful players, it's a chance to relieve their dreams of knocking homers over the fence.

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Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego personnel attended a weekend at Petco Park Sept. 17-18. The San Diego Padres donated tickets to the USO to distribute to military organizations thought the city.

Photo by: Pvt. Charlie Chavez. Photo ID: 2005923112459, Submitting Unit: MCRD San Diego. Photo Date:09/23/2005. This Image has been cleared for release. High Resolution Image

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TEAM OF THE MILITARY: Military Opening Night Presented by Northrop Grumman Corporation, Saturday April 7 at 7:05 p.m. - Padres vs. Colorado, The Padres' tradition of saluting the Military continues with the only Military Opening Night in all of Major League Baseball on Saturday, April 7. The Padres will once again wear their desert camouflage jerseys as a visible salute to all members of the Armed Forces and pre-game ceremonies will honor distinguished members of local Military commands.

Marine Recruit Sundays Presented by Navy Federal Credit Union, the Padres are proud to host 13 graduating classes from Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego Sunday games at PETCO Park. The Official Site of The San Diego Padres

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Baseball Little League

ARC Identifier: 546272 Title: LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL FIELD 05/1972. Creator: Environmental Protection Agency. (12/02/1970 - ) ( Most Recent) Type of Archival Materials: Photographs and other Graphic Materials Level of Description: Item from Record Group 412: Access Restrictions: Unrestricted, Use Restrictions: Unrestricted

Records of the Environmental Protection Agency, 1944 - 2000 Location: Still Picture Records LICON, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001 PHONE: 301-837-3530, FAX: 301-837-3621, EMAIL: stillpix@nara.gov Production Date: 05/1972

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Copy 1 Copy Status: Preservation-Reproduction. Storage Facility: National Archives at College Park - Archives II (College Park, MD), Media. Media Type: Slide. Copy 2 Copy Status: Reference. Storage Facility: National Archives at College Park - Archives II (College Park, MD) Media. Media Type: Slide.

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Little League From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Little League Baseball is the name of a non-profit organization in the United States which organizes local children's leagues of baseball and softball throughout the USA and the rest of the world.

These "little leagues" include both baseball and softball and are divided into six divisions based on the ages of the children playing: Tee Ball, Minors, Little (or Majors), Junior, Senior and Big. The age-cutoffs between divisions may differ from league to league, especially in the younger age groups. "Majors" is generally 11 and 12 year olds, with some leagues allowing 10 or 9 year olds to play.

Juniors are 13-14, Seniors are 15-16, with some leagues allowing 14's to play, and Big is 17-18, with 16's sometimes being allowed. Little League welcomes both boys and girls between the ages of 5 and 18. Another division of Little League is the "Challenger Division" which is designed for children with disabilities. One of the aims of Little League, other than simply to have fun, is to teach children about teamwork, sportsmanship and fair play. Their watchwords are Character, Courage, Loyalty

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Baseball Bud Fowler

Keokuk, Iowa, baseball club featuring JOHN W. ‘BUD’ FOWLER, Date: 1885 Photo Credit: National Baseball Library Photographer: Unknown, Type: Black and White, Dimensions: 9.5" × 7.375" Description: Keokuk, Iowa, baseball club featuring Bud Fowler, 1885.

Identifications: Back row: Schomberg, O'Brien, Bud Fowler, Corcoran, Decker. Middle row: Harrington. Front row: Kennedy, Van Dyke, Dugdale, Hudson, Harter.

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In 1867, just two years after the end of the Civil War, organized baseball made its first attempt to ban blacks. The National Association of Baseball Players refused to allow an all black team from Philadelphia join the league. Negro League Baseball Players Association

Perhaps the most important figure on the 1885 Western league Keokuks was John W. "Bud" Fowler. He is the first African-American to play professional baseball before the color lines were drawn. John W. "Bud" Fowler

Bud Fowler From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bud Fowler (March 16, 1858 - February 26, 1913), born John W. Jackson, was a baseball player and baseball club organizer, the first known African-American professional player. He played more seasons and more games in Organized Baseball than any black man until Jackie Robinson broke the color line in 1946 and played his 11th season in 1956.

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Baseball Tinker to Evers to Chance!

"Baseball's Sad Lexicon"
These are the saddest of possible words:
"Tinker to Evers to Chance."
Trio of bear cubs, and fleeter than birds,
Tinker and Evers and Chance.
Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble,*
Making a Giant hit into a double--
Words that are heavy with nothing but trouble:
"Tinker to Evers to Chance."**

Chicago Cubs infielders Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, and Frank Chance formed the most memorable double-play combination in the history of baseball. Their consistently solid fielding and hitting led the Cubs to four National League pennants (1906-8, 1910) and two World Series wins (1907-8). The Hall of Fame inducted all three simultaneously in 1946. In 1910, New York newspaper columnist Franklin Pierce Adams immortalized the three ballplayers in a short verse.

* The term "gonfalon" refers to a flag or pennant, and Adams uses the phrase "pricking our gonfalon bubble" to describe the repeated success of the Chicago Cubs and their celebrated infield against their National League rivals, his beloved New York Giants.

** Reprinted in the book In Other Words by Franklin P. Adams (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1912), and other, more recent anthologies of his work.

Franklin P. Adams' In Other Words courtesy of The Open Library

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Joe Tinker. Retrieve uncompressed archival TIFF version, CREATED, PUBLISHED 1911. NOTES: Issued by: American Tobacco Company. MEDIUM: 1 photomechanical print. CALL NUMBER: LOT 13163-25, no. 41. Back of Card. Larger reference JPEG version (69 kilobytes) Highest resolution uncompressed TIFF version (15330 kilobytes)

REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-5772 (color film copy transparency of three cards), LC-USZCN4-63 (color film copy negative of three cards). REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. DIGITAL ID: (original) bbc 1383.

John J. Evers. Retrieve uncompressed archival TIFF version, CREATED, PUBLISHED: 1911. NOTES: Issued by: American Tobacco Company MEDIUM: 1 photomechanical print. CALL NUMBER: LOT 13163-25, no. 26. Back of Card: Larger reference JPEG version (70 kilobytes) Highest resolution uncompressed TIFF version (15224 kilobytes)

REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-5772 (color film copy transparency of three cards), LC-USZCN4-63 (color film copy negative of three cards), REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. DIGITAL ID: (original) bbc 1368

Frank J. Chance. Retrieve uncompressed archival TIFF version, CREATED, PUBLISHED 1911. NOTES Issued by: American Tobacco Company. MEDIUM: 1 photomechanical print. CALL NUMBER: LOT 13163-25, no. 25. Back of Card: Larger reference JPEG version (84 kilobytes), Highest resolution uncompressed TIFF version (14873 kilobytes)

REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-5772 (color film copy transparency of three cards), LC-USZCN4-63 (color film copy negative of three cards) REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. DIGITAL ID: (original) bbc 1367

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Baseball Cy Young

TITLE: [Cy Young], CALL NUMBER: LOT 13163-29, no. 65, REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-132874 (b&w film copy neg.), MEDIUM: 1 print : chromolithograph with hand-color. CREATED, PUBLISHED: 1911,Larger reference JPEG version (52 kilobytes) Retrieve uncompressed archival TIFF version,(19083 kilobytes). The Library of Congress is not aware of any U.S. copyright protection (see Title 17 U.S.C.) or any other restrictions in the Baseball Cards materials,

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NOTES: Issued by: American Tobacco Company. COLLECTION: Baseball Cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection. REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID: (original) bbc 1710, About This Collection

Cy Young From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Denton True Young (March 29, 1867 – November 4, 1955) was an American baseball pitcher during the 1890s and 1900s. The Baseball Hall of Fame inducted Young in 1937 and he won one championship in 1903 as a member of the Boston Americans. An accomplished athlete,

Young won the 1901 AL Triple Crown for Pitchers. The annual award given for the pitcher of the year in each league is named the Cy Young Award. Young played twenty-two years of professional baseball. He set the records for most wins all-time, most innings pitched all-time, most games started all-time, and most complete games all-time. His longevity also allowed him to set the record for the most career losses, despite winning 62% of his decisions.

Young began his major league career in 1890 with the Cleveland Spiders. He allowed three hits in his debut. In 1893, the pitching mound was placed 60 feet 6 inches from home plate. He was one of the few pitchers whose statistical performance did not suffer as a consequence of the move.

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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)

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

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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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Baseball Players of Cuba

Jugadores del Habana. (Players of the Habana or Havana, Cuba. The city forms one of the 14 provinces of Cuba, with the province called "City of Havana" (Ciudad de La Habana.) Halftone photomechanical print in: Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide. Spanish-American edition. New York: American Sports Publishing Co., 1911, p. 18. (Library of Congress, General Collections. Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-119884

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Baseball in Cuba From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Baseball was introduced to Cuba in the 1860s by Cubans who studied in the United States and American sailors who ported in the country. The sport quickly spread across the island nation. Nemisio Guillo is credited with bringing a bat and baseball to Cuba in 1864 after being schooled in Mobile, Alabama. Two more Cubans were sent to Mobile, one being his brother Ernesto; the Guillo brothers and their contemporaries formed a Baseball team in 1868 - the Habana Baseball Club. The club won one major match - against the crew of an American schooner anchored at the Matanzas harbour.

Soon after this, the first Cuban War of Independence against its Spanish rulers spurred Spanish authorities in 1869 to ban playing the sport in Cuba. The reasons were because Cubans began to prefer baseball to viewing bullfights, which Cubans were expected dutifully attend as homage to their Spanish rulers in an informal cultural mandate. As such, baseball became symbolic of freedom and egalitarianism to the Cuban people. The ban also prompted Esteban Bellán to join the semipro Troy Haymakers. He became the first Latin American player to play in a Major League in the United States. Bellan started playing baseball for the Fordham Rose Hill Baseball Club, while attending Fordham University (1863 - 1868). After that he played for the Unions of Morrisania, a New York City team. Bellan played for the Haymakers until 1862; in 1861 it joined the National Association.

The first official match in Cuba took place in Pueblo Nuevo, Matanaz, at the Palmar del Junco, December 27, 1874. It was between Club Matanzas and Club Habana, the latter winning 51 to 9, in nine innings.

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Baseball Negro Leagues, Morris Brown College

	TITLE: [African American baseball players from Morris Brown College, with boy and another man, standing at door, Atlanta, Georgia], CALL NUMBER: LOT 11930, no. 337 [P&P], Summary: There are no known restrictions on the African American photographs gathered for the Paris Exposition of 1900 (THIS IMAGE)

Alternate Version: Digital ID: cph 3c14266 Source: b&w film copy neg. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-114266 (b&w film copy neg.)

Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA Retrieve higher resolution JPEG version (136 kilobytes) Retrieve uncompressed archival TIFF version (12 megabytes).

Original albums; Restricted access; Served by appointment only. REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-114266 (b&w film copy neg.), MEDIUM: 1 photographic print : gelatin silver. CREATED. PUBLISHED: [1899 or 1900]

NOTES: In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 4, no. 337. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P Reading Room. A microfilm surrogate is also available. Forms part of: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress). Original albums filed in PR 12 under LOT 11930.

PART OF: Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963. Du Bois albums of photographs of African Americans in Georgia exhibited at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900

REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. DIGITAL ID: (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3c14266 hdl.loc.gov/cph.3c14266 CARD #: 95507100

Credit Line: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, [reproduction number, LC-USZ62-114266]

On October 15, 1885, just 22 years after Abraham Lincoln signed the
Emancipation Proclamation, 107 students and nine teachers walked into a crude wooden structure at the comer of Boulevard and Houston Streets in Atlanta, Georgia, marking the formal opening of the first educational institution in Georgia under sole African American patronage. That institution was Morris Brown College, named to honor the memory of the second consecrated Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. Morris Brown College

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Baseball Ty Cobb (Tyrus Raymond Cobb)

TITLE: [Ty Cobb, Detroit AL (baseball)], CALL NUMBER: LC-B2- 2755-12[P&P], REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ggbain-13533 (digital file from original negative), No known restrictions on publication. MEDIUM: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. CREATED, PUBLISHED: [1913}

Digital ID: ggbain 13533 Source: digital file from original neg. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-13533 (digital file from original negative) Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA Retrieve higher resolution JPEG version (119 kilobytes)

NOTES: Data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards: Ty Cobb (Det.). Title and date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch three loaded.

REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, DIGITAL ID: (digital file from original neg.) ggbain 13533 hdl.loc.gov/ggbain.13533 , CARD #: ggb2005013568

Credit Line: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, [reproduction number, LC-DIG-ggbain-13533]

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TITLE: [Ty Cobb, Detroit, AL (baseball)], CALL NUMBER: LC-B2- 2015-3[P&P], REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ggbain-08006 (digital file from original neg.), No known restrictions on publication.

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Title and date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006. Temp. note: Batch two loaded.

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Ty Cobb, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb (December 18, 1886 – July 17, 1961), nicknamed "The Georgia Peach", was a Major League Baseball (MLB) player. Cobb is considered one of the greatest players ever and is in the Hall of Fame, having received the most votes of any player on the 1936 inaugural Hall of Fame Ballot.

Cobb wrote baseball's record books, setting more than 90 records at one time or another and holding 43 when he retired in 1928. As of 2007, he still holds several records, including highest MLB career batting average with .366 and most career batting titles with 11. After his retirement, he retained many other records for almost a half century or more, including most career major league hits until 1985 (4,189, long believed to be 4,191), most career runs (2,246) until 2001, most career games played (3,035) and at bats (11,434) until 1974, and the modern record for most career stolen bases (892) until 1977.

The greatest of stars during his playing prime, Cobb's legacy as an athlete has sometimes been overshadowed by his surly temperament, passionate racism and aggressive reputation, which was described by the Detroit Free Press as "daring to the point of dementia."

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Baseball Babe Ruth (George Herman Ruth, Jr.)

TITLE: [Babe Ruth, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, holding up bat, in baseball uniform, on field], CALL NUMBER: LOT 12344-1 [P&P]REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-98072 (b&w film copy neg.)No known restrictions on publication. MEDIUM: 1 photographic. print. CREATED, PUBLISHED: [1920?]. NOTES: by Keystone View Co. Inc. of N.Y. National Photo Company Collection.

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Babe Ruth, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

George Herman Ruth, Jr. (February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948), also known as "Babe", "The Great Bambino", "The Sultan of Swat", and "The Colossus of Clout", was an American Major League baseball player from 1914-1935.

Although he spent most of his career as an outfielder with the New York Yankees, Ruth began his career as a successful starting pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. He compiled a 89-46 win-loss record during his time with the Red Sox and set a number of World Series pitching records. In 1918, Ruth started to play in the outfield and at first base so he could help the team on a day-to-day basis as a hitter. In 1919, he appeared in 111 games as an outfielder. He also hit 29 home runs to break Ned Williamson's record for most home runs in a single season.

In 1920, Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sold Ruth to the New York Yankees for $125,000, in part to finance a Broadway play. The transaction spawned the Curse of the Bambino. Over his next 15 seasons in New York, Ruth led the league or placed in the top ten in batting average, slugging percentage, runs, total bases, home runs, RBI, and walks several times. Ruth hit 59 home runs in 1921 then beat his own single season home run record in 1927 with 60. It stood as the single season home run record for 34 years.

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Baseball 1926 New York Yankees

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New York Yankees, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The 1927 Yankees lineup was so potent that it has become known as "Murderers' Row", and some consider the team to be the best in the history of baseball . (though similar claims have been made for other Yankee squads, notably those of 1939, 1961 and 1998). The Yankees won an AL record 110 games with only 44 losses, and swept the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1927 World Series. Ruth's home run total of 60 in 1927 set a single-season home run record that would stand for 34 years. He also batted .356 and drove in 164 runs. Meanwhile, first baseman Lou Gehrig had his first big season, batting .373 with 47 round-trippers and 175 RBI's, beating Ruth's single-season RBI mark (171 in 1921).

Ruth hit third in the order, and Gherig hit cleanup Right behind them were two more sluggers: Bob "The Rifle" Meusel, who played either of the corner outfield positions, and Tony Lazzeri, who played second base. Lazzeri actually ranked third in the league in home runs in 1927 with 18, and he hit .309 with 102 RBI's. Meusel hit .337 with 103 RBI's. Speed was another weapon used by both: Lazzeri stole 22 bases while Meusel was second in the league with 24. These numbers were all due, in part, to center fielder and leadoff man Earle Combs. He hit .356, had a .414 on base percentage, and lead the AL with 231 hits that year (a team record until Don Mattingly broke it in 1986 with 283). The team's overall batting average in 1927 was .307.

The Yankees would repeat as American League champions in 1928, fighting off the resurgent Philadelphia Athletics. They would then go on to sweep the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1928 World Series. Ruth got 10 hits in 16 at-bats, his .625 average setting a new single-series record. Three of these hits were home runs. Meanwhile, Gehrig went 6 for 11 (.545), going yard four times.

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Baseball Jackie Robinson Day April 15th

Jackie Robinson in his Brooklyn Dodgers Uniform.

Creator(s): U.S. Information Agency. 1982-10/1/1999 (Most Recent) U.S. Information Agency. Press and Publications Service. Visual Services Branch. Photo Library. 1953-1977 (Predecessor) International Communications Agency. Press and Publications Service. Publications Division. 1978-1982 (Predecessor)

April 15, 1947 – Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.

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Jackie Robinson in his Brooklyn Dodgers Uniform

This is a photo taken by a staff photographer of LOOK Magazine, and is part of the LOOK Magazine Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress. Their former owner, Cowles Communications, Inc, dedicated to the public all rights it owned to these images as an instrument of gift.

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TITLE: [Jackie Robinson in Brooklyn Dodgers uniform, swinging bat], CALL NUMBER: LOOK - Job 54-3566-O, frame 7 [P and P], REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-L9-54-3566-O, #7 (b and w film neg.)

MEDIUM: 1 photographic print. CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1954. CREATOR: Sandberg, Bob, photographer.

NOTES: Forms part of: Look Magazine Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: LOOK, v. 19, no. 4, 1955 Feb. 22, p. 78. PART OF: Look magazine photograph collection (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. DIGITAL ID: (b&w film neg.) ppmsc 00047 hdl.loc.gov/ppmsc.00047, CARD #: 97518915

ARC Identifier: 542024, Title: Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. [Former National Baseball League player, Jackie Robinson with his son.], 08/28/1963

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Jackie Robinson, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) became the first African-American Major League Baseball player of the modern era on April 15, 1947. The Baseball Hall of Fame inducted Robinson in 1962 and he was a member of six World Series teams. Jackie earned six consecutive All-Star Game nominations and won several awards during his career.

In 1947, Robinson won The Sporting News Rookie of the Year Award and the first MLB Rookie of the Year Award Award. Two years later, Jackie was awarded his first National League MVP Award. In addition to his accomplishments on the field, Jackie Robinson was also a forerunner of the Civil Rights Movement. He was a key figure in the establishment and growth of the Freedom Bank, an African-American owned and controlled entity, in the 1960s. He also wrote a syndicated newspaper column for a number of years, in which he was an outspoken supporter of Martin Luther King Jr. and, to a lesser degree, Malcolm X.

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Baseball Opening Day

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Opening Day, From Wikipedia

Opening Day is warmly regarded in North American tradition as the beginning of a new Major League Baseball season. It falls annually around the beginning of April, signaling such a generational feeling of rebirth that the writer Thomas Boswell once penned a book titled, Why Time Begins On Opening Day. It represents a newness in which 30 major league clubs and their millions of fans begin with 0-0 records and the hope for glory come autumn's World Series.

For generations, Opening Day has arrived amid pageantry. It is celebrated nowhere as heartily as in Cincinnati, Ohio, home of the sport's first professional team, where an annual parade marks an unofficial "city holiday" with young and old alike taking the day off to cheer on the Reds. Although the past decade has brought the introduction of a Sunday night opening game on ESPN, the ensuing Monday brings Opening Day to numerous major league ballparks and the game that day in Cincinnati (the only team which always opens the season at home) still is observed throughout baseball as the "traditional opener." Opening Day is a state of mind as well, with countless baseball fans known to recognize this unofficial holiday as a good reason to call in sick at the office and go out to the ballpark for the first of 162 regular season games.

Hall of Fame pitcher Early Wynn, who played for the Washington Senators, Cleveland Indians and Chicago White Sox, once said: "An opener is not like any other game. There's that little extra excitement, a faster beating of the heart. You have that anxiety to get off to a good start, for yourself and for the team. You know that when you win the first one, you can't lose 'em all."

Opening Day extends throughout the sport of baseball, to hundreds of minor league baseball franchises as well as to college, high school, youth league fields and in areas far beyond North America. There are opening-night performances for new Broadway plays, and there is a beginning to everything, but Opening Day is uniquely the start of a baseball season. After a long, cold winter and a Spring Training to prepare, it is that time-honored opportunity to take one's seat at the ballpark and hear the umpire shout, "Play ball!"

Prior to Opening Day, the teams' managers have to decide the starting pitchers for the Opening Day game. This spot is usually given to the teams' ace pitchers, and is usually considered an honour for a pitcher to start on Opening Day. In turn, the pitchers who start on Opening Day are recognized throughout the baseball world as their teams' best starting pitchers.

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