Henry Louis "Lou" Gehrig

Description: Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees, cropped from a posed picture of 1937 Major League Baseball All-Stars in Washington, DC.

On April 30, Gehrig went hitless against the Washington Senators. Gehrig had just played his 2,130th consecutive major league game.

On May 2, the next game after a day off, Gehrig approached McCarthy before a game in Detroit against the Tigers and said, "I'm benching myself, Joe," telling the Yankees' skipper that he was doing so "for the good of the team."

McCarthy, put Ellsworth "Babe" Dahlgren in at first base, telling Gehrig whenever he wanted to play again, the position was his. Gehrig took the lineup card out to the shocked umpires before the game, ending the fourteen-year streak.

Before the game began, the Briggs Stadium announcer told the fans, "Ladies and gentlemen, this is the first time Lou Gehrig's name will not appear on the Yankee lineup in 2,130 consecutive games." The Detroit Tigers' fans gave Gehrig a standing ovation while he sat on the bench with tears in his eyes. A wire service photograph of Gehrig reclining against the dugout steps with a stoic expression appeared the next day in the nation's newspapers.

Title: Plenty of basehits in these bats. Washington D.C., July 7. A million dollar base-ball flesh is represented in these sluggers of the two All- Star Teams which met in the 1937 game at Griffith Stadium today. Left to right: Lou Gehrig, Joe Cronin, Bill Dickey, Joe DiMaggio, Charley Gehringer, Jimmie Foxx, and Hank Greenberg, 7/7/37 Creator(s): Harris & Ewing, photographer. Date Created/Published: 1937 July 7. Medium: 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-hec-22989 (digital file from original negative. Uncropped Image JPEG (85kb) || JPEG (210kb) || TIFF (19.5mb) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. This is a photograph from the Harris & Ewing Collection at the Library of Congress. The photos (and negatives) were given to the library. The restrictions and copyrights of the items, as part of the Instrument of Gift, have expired. There are no known restrictions on the use of these items. Call Number: LC-H22- D-1887 [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Notes:
Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection.
Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955.
General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.hec
Temp. note: Batch four.

Subjects:
United States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)

Format:
Glass negatives.

Collections:
Harris & Ewing Collection

Part of: Harris & Ewing Collection (Library of Congress)

Opening Day Baseball New York Highlanders

Title: [Opening Day at Hilltop Park, NY; NY Highlanders (AL) & Phila. Athletics game action (baseball)] Creator(s): Bain News Service, publisher. Date Created / Published: [1908 Apr. 14] Medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-00274 (digital file from original neg.)

Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. There are no known restrictions on the photographs in the George Grantham Bain Collection. Publication and other forms of distribution: No known restrictions.

Credit Line: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, [reproduction number, e.g., LC-B2-1234]

The George Grantham Bain Collection represents the photographic files of one of America's earliest news picture agencies. The collection richly documents sports events, theater, celebrities, crime, strikes, disasters, political activities including the woman suffrage campaign, conventions and public celebrations. The photographs Bain produced and gathered for distribution through his news service were worldwide in their coverage, but there was a special emphasis on life in New York City. The bulk of the collection dates from the 1900s to the mid-1920s, but scattered images can be found as early as the 1860s and as late as the 1930s.

Call Number: LC-B2- 56-3 [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA .

Notes: * Original data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards: N.Y. Americans vs. Philadelphia, opening game, New York, 4/14/08. * Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). * Corrected title and date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006. Subjects: * New York * baseball Format: * Glass negatives. Collections: * Bain Collection

Babe Ruth in baseball uniform, holding baseball bat.

Babe Ruth, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly left, in baseball uniform, holding baseball bat. Title: [Babe Ruth, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly left, in baseball uniform, holding baseball bat] / Irwin, La Broad, & Pudlin. Date Created, Published: c1920. On September 30, 1927, Babe Ruth hits his 60th home run of the season and with it sets a record that would stand for 34 years. George Herman Ruth, Jr. (February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948), best known as "Babe" Ruth and nicknamed "the Bambino" and "the Sultan of Swat"

Medium: 1 photographic print. Reproduction Number: LC-USZC4-7246 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZ62-105246 (b&w film copy neg.) Call Number: BIOG FILE - Ruth, George Herman, 1895-1948 [item] [P&P] [P&P] Other Number: J242488.

Notes:

* J242488 U.S. Copyright Office.
* Signed on image: "Yours truly "Babe" Ruth."
* No. 6.

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George Michael Steinbrenner III

George Michael Steinbrenner III (July 4, 1930 – July 13, 2010) was principal owner and managing partner of the New York Yankees. During Mr. Steinbrenner's 37-year ownership from 1973 to his death in July 2010, the longest in club history, the Yankees earned 7 World Series titles and 11 pennants.

George Steinbrenner's life, work clip courtesy New York Yankees & Major League Baseball MLB.com looks at George Steinbrenner's life and work, work released into the public domain by the author, per www.archive.org/details/GeorgeSteinbrenner1930-2010

Date: 2008. Author: New York Yankees and MLB.

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The Polo Grounds

Polo Grounds during World Series game, 1913. Digital ID: (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3b16684 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b16684. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-69242 (b&w film copy neg.)

Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. JPEG (33kb) || TIFF (1.6mb)

Title: Baseball parks - Polo Grounds during World Series game, 1913. Date Created/Published: 1913. Medium: 1 photographic print. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-69242 (b&w film copy neg.)

Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.

Call Number: LOT 11147-3 item [P&P] [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.

Notes: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Format: Photographic prints--1910-1920. Collections: Bain Collection

The Polo Grounds was the name given to four different stadiums in Upper Manhattan, New York City, used by baseball's New York Metropolitans from 1880 until 1885, New York Giants from 1883 until 1957, the New York Yankees from 1912 until 1922, by the New York Mets in their first two seasons of 1962 and 1963, the New York Football Giants of the National Football League from 1925 to 1955 and by the New York Titans in the American Football League 1960 until 1962 and the successor New York Jets of the American Football League 1963. It also hosted the 1934 and 1942 Major League Baseball All-Star Games. From Wikipedia Polo Grounds

the "Shot Heard 'round the World" is the term given to the game-ending home run hit by New York Giants outfielder Bobby Thomson (October 25, 1923 – August 16, 2010) off Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca at the Polo Grounds to win the National League pennant at 3:58 p.m. EST on October 3, 1951. Shot Heard 'Round the World

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